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DARPA Chip Effort Pivots to Securing US Supply Chain
A three-year-old Defense Department electronics initiative is bearing fruit in the form of public-private partnerships in areas ranging from post-Moore’s Law chip architectures to the growing national security requirement ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Touts ‘Supercomputer-class AI’ with Nvidia A100 GPU Instances
Microsoft Azure continues to infuse its cloud platform with HPC- and AI-directed technologies. Today the cloud services purveyor announced a new virtual machine family aimed at “supercomputer-class AI,” backed ...Full Article
Open 5G Push Seen Attracting Hyperscalers
The technology lines are being drawn in the race to deploy 5G wireless networks that would underpin emerging enterprise applications ranging from the Internet of Things a host of ...Full Article
IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
IBM this week introduced its next generation Power10 microprocessor, a 7nm device manufactured by Samsung. The chip features a new microarchitecture, broad new memory support, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, ...Full Article
Photonics Processor Aimed at AI Inference
Silicon photonics is exhibiting greater innovation as requirements grow to enable faster, lower-power chip interconnects for traditionally power-hungry applications like AI inferencing. With that in mind, scientists at Massachusetts ...Full Article
AI Chip Start-up Groq to Detail Technology Progress in Fall
AI chip startup Groq announced this week it had closed its most recent funding round, saying the new investments will help it double in size by the end of ...Full Article
Op-Ed: Intel Confronts Its IBM Moment
On July 28, 1993, IBM announced a staggering quarterly loss of over $8 billion, the second largest in corporate history after GM’s $21 billion the previous year. Louis V. ...Full Article
US Chip Industry Launches Apprenticeships
As efforts ramp up to revive U.S. chip manufacturing, the nation’s largest pure-play foundry services provider is teaming with an industry group to advance a workforce training program designed ...Full Article
Implement Photonic Tensor Cores for Machine Learning?
Researchers from George Washington University have reported an approach for building photonic tensor cores that leverages phase change photonic memory to implement a neural network (NN). Their novel architecture, ...Full Article
Huawei Disputes U.S.-Backed Open 5G Push
Huawei Technologies, the 5G leader, is pushing back on concerted efforts to forge an alternative radio access network for the next generation of wireless technologies. Western technology companies with ...Full Article
