Nvidia announces new workstation GPUs and conversational AI
Nvidia has announced several workstation GPUs based on the new Ampere architecture. The chip developer is also coming up with a new AI that can carry out real-time conversations.
The new graphics cards consist of two cards for desktop computers, four for mobile workstations and two for data cent... Read more
Graphcore raises $222 million in Series E Funding Round
Funding will help the company scale up AI chip production.
Graphcore announced this week that it has raised $222 million in a Series E funding round. The round values the company at $2.77 billion post-money.
The company makes what they call an Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU). This is a n... Read more
Nvidia announces Q3 results, looks to microservices for future growth
Largest growth area in Q3 was the Gaming sector.
Nvidia announced surprisingly strong third quarter results this week, with CEO Jensen Huang painting a rosy picture for the future.
The company beat Wall Street expectations and posted a record revenue of $4.73 billion, a whopping 57 percent in... Read more
Intel launches server GPU focused on Android cloud gaming
Intel has released its first GPU for use in servers. The graphics card is designed to excel in streaming games and media to Android devices.
The new GPU is the latest showing of Intel's efforts to become a bigger player in the GPU market with the Xe line of products. The company's ultimate goal ... Read more
Intel announces relatively fast Iris Xe Max GPU for laptops
Intel has announced three manufacturers that will incorporate its new Iris GPU into their laptops. Acer, Asus and Dell are going to try the new GPU, which competes with entry-level chips from Nvidia.
The Intel Iris Xe Max is based on the same architecture that can also be found in other Iris Xe ... Read more
Nvidia sets new record in MLPerf benchmark
Nvidia's A100 GPGPU has broken several records in the MLPerf benchmark for machine learning applications. The new chip performs roughly six to eight times better than its Turing-based predecessor.
In the MLPerf benchmark, the A100 GPGPU was compared to the Nvidia T4, as well as the Xilinx U250 a... Read more
Nvidia unveils a data processing unit named BlueField-2 for use in data centers
Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference usually places a lot of emphasis on their hallmark GPUs. However, in the company's latest event, the GPUs were not the only thing in the spotlight. Nvidia said that it has started sampling a DPU (Data Processing Unit.)
The DPU is aimed at data centers. It is of... Read more
Arm launches new chip designs for use in autonomous systems
Arm announced on Tuesday that it is launching a new set of solutions for autonomous systems in industrial and automotive applications. The chips include the Mali-G78AE GPU, the Arm Mali-C71AE image signal processor, and the Arm Cortex-A78AE high-performance CPU.
The highlight of these chips is t... Read more
Oracle is spending a lot on its high-performance computing cloud services
Oracle is rolling out new offerings which should be very competitive to other cloud vendors. The new offering focusses on high performance cloud computing which is targeted towards customers who need high power for apps that deal with things like AI, video rendering or 3D visualization.
The comp... Read more
MSI launches a new line of business-class laptops named Summit series
MSI's past laptops for gaming have performed well, and now, it is time to see what their business-class laptop series will offer. Just last week, MSI hosted a virtual summit where they announced several new machines, driven by the 11th generation of Intel CPUs.
Most of what was discussed t... Read more