Month: March 2024
-
Nvidia Blackwell GPU Promises 30× Speedup, but Expect 3×
Nvidia Blackwell promises performance leaps but at what cost? Are are the claims realistic, and can competitors keep up? Dive into the specs, anticipated release timing, competition, and potential impact on the AI hardware landscape.
-
Hell Hath No Fury Like an Engineer Bored
A software developer turned hardware homebrewer, Dylan Barrie has developed his own GPU.
-
Cerebras WSE-3 Targets the Biggest AI Models with Twice WSE-2’s FP16 Performance
Unique wafer-scale Cerebras WSE-3 AI accelerator with capacious memory and unusual service business tackles AI projects, such as GPT and generative AI.
-
Extropic Exploits Thermodynamics
Traditional computers provide definitive answers, but AI thrives on probabilities. Extropic tackles AI with a novel processor design employing thermodynamics, aiming to accelerate probabilistic machine learning like generative AI and potentially revolutionizing the field.
-
Tesla Dojo Details Disclosed in 2022 Foreshadow Cautious Comments
Tesla Dojo aimed to liberate the company from Nvidia, but recent CEO comments show uncharacteristic restraint about the supercomputer program.
-
Developers Can Finally Get Tenstorrent Grayskull
Four years ago, Tenstorrent promised a superior AI-processing (NPU) architecture. It’s finally offering dev boards with intriguingly modest power.