Compute
IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron
Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …
Hot Chips
Compute
Building A Better Machine For An AI World
Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and software that helped to get more performance into the hands into increasing numbers of people. …
Compute
The Ticking And Tocking Of Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP
It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a processor design – what it used to call a “tock” – at the same time. …
AI
Intel Focuses on Scale Out AI Training With New Chip
Carey Kloss has been intimately involved with the rise of AI hardware over the last several years, most notably with his work building the first Nervana compute engine, which Intel captured and is rolling into two separate products: one chip for training, another for inference. …
Compute
System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …
AI
A Mythic Approach to Deep Learning Inference
Another Hot Chips conference has ended with yet another deep learning architecture to consider. …
Compute
Details Emerge On China’s 64-Core ARM Chip
While the world awaits the AMD K12 and Qualcomm Hydra ARM server chips to join the ranks of the Applied Micro X-Gene and Cavium ThunderX processors already in the market, it could be upstart Chinese chip maker Phytium Technology that gets a brawny chip into the field first and also gets traction among actual datacenter server customers, not just tire kickers. …