
Nvidia is mounting a charm offensive for its Vera microprocessor, touting its sizable strengths in key areas and retconning it into a framework of how data-center processors have changed. If this framework is valid, the company is at least one generation ahead of other server-processor suppliers. At the same time, Nvidia claims that competing products… continue reading

As data-center AI has come to dominate the market for computing accelerators such as GPUs, new vendors are targeting the previous main application of accelerators, high-performance computing (HPC), introducing unusual technologies. NextSilicon is one of these companies, supplying national labs and other HPC customers with its Maverick-2 processor based on a data-flow architecture. The HPC… continue reading

The Tensordyne Napier NPU aims to beat Nvidia/Groq and Amazon/Cerebras at a fraction of the power, floor space, and cost, owing to logarithmic computing. continue reading

Byrne and Wheeler discuss recent developments in the tech industry, including AMD’s acquisition of MEXT, #NVIDIA’s impressive growth, Broadcom’s earnings, and innovative chip technologies like Tensordyne’s log-domain processing and Huawei’s Tau scaling. They analyze market trends, product launches, and strategic partnerships shaping the future of semiconductors and AI hardware. continue reading

Startup GPU maker Bolt Graphics is on track to deliver development kits to lead customers by the end of the year, having taped out its first chip last month. By the end of 2027, the company expects to begin shipping PCIe cards based on a production version of its Zeus GPU. This schedule represents a… continue reading
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