Memory giant SK Hynix has invested in RISC-V supplier Semidynamics, helping the CPU designer expand into chips, boards, and systems for data-center AI inference. The Spanish startup joins Arm and fellow European RISC-V supplier Codasip in moving beyond IP. Semidynamics Evolves from RISC-V IP to AI Systems Semidynamics began as a design services company. It continue reading

Arm has entered the chip market with the AGI processor. Featuring 136 Neoverse cores and PCIe Gen6, it aims to outperform x86 servers by 2× per rack. continue reading

Groq was one of many companies to realize that GPUs suboptimally execute neural networks. But like other NPU companies, it also failed to anticipate how AI models were changing. Groq’s technical shortcomings, along with the software and other challenges NPU startups face, diminished its products’ appeal to most customers. In a reversal, the strength-weakness duality continue reading
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