AMD Epyc Rome Tabbed for Nvidia’s New DGX, but HGX Has Intel Option
AMD continues to make inroads into the data center with its second-generation Epyc “Rome” processor, which last week scored a win with Nvidia’s announcement that its new Ampere-based DGX ...Full Article
3 Reasons Why Object Storage Is Right for AI and Machine Learning
Enterprises of all types are ramping up AI and machine learning projects, but realizing their true potential requires overcoming significant technology barriers. While compute infrastructure is often the focus, ...Full Article
Holistic Data Used to Track AI Bias
Bias creeps into AI models as they are trained. Hence, experts warn that data sets and model training techniques must to be cleansed of bias at each step in ...Full Article
Bitcoin is Having a ‘Halving’ Amidst a Pandemic
In the world of Bitcoin a “halving” takes place about every four years. This past Monday, May 11, 2020, witnessed the third such event. It’s a big deal. It ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils Two Edge AI Offerings for ‘Smart Everything’
Extending latency-sensitive AI workloads to the edge is the objective of two new products from Nvidia, announced today at the company’s annual (virtual) GPU Technology Conference (GTC), based on ...Full Article
Nvidia Launches Ampere GPU with Up to 20X the AI Performance
Nvidia’s first Ampere-based graphics card, the A100 GPU, packs a whopping 54 billion transistors on 826mm2 of silicon, making it the world’s largest seven-nanometer chip. Launched today during a pre-recorded ...Full Article
Startup MemVerge Launches Memory-centric Mission
Memory situated at the center of the computing universe, replacing processing, has long been envisioned as instrumental to radically improved data center systems performance. Combined with accelerated processing (GPUs, ...Full Article
AI Edge Partners Unveil Video Analytics Server
Hailo, the AI chip startup, is teaming with a Japanese systems designer and manufacturing giant Foxconn to develop an AI edge processor aimed at video analytics applications. The edge ...Full Article
Inspur Takes OCP Beyond Hyperscalers
Inspur, China’s server leader, is expanding its AI offerings based on Open Compute Project specifications, including an OCP “cloud optimized” server geared to SAP HANA workloads and running Intel’s ...Full Article
Feds, Chipmakers Mull Jump-starting U.S. Chip-making Capacity
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel and TSMC to spur development of new chip factories in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal ...Full Article
