Month: May 2024
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Using It to Make AI Chips, SoftBank Would Risk Arm
Arm may design and sell AI chips, targeting production by 2025. Directed by majority shareholder SoftBank Group, the move is risky. Selling chips is less likely to succeed than licensing AI IP, which Arm already does, and won’t alienate Arm’s customers.
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Commodore Guns for Nvidia
Some guy is accomplishing generative AI using a Commodore 64. His BASIC code generates sprites, the tiny character images eight-bit games use.
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Apple M4 Processor Debuts in New iPads
The Apple M4 brings the AI- and graphics-processing features of recent iPhones and Macbooks to the iPad.
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Is It Smart for Apple to Design a Data-Center AI Chip?
Apple is reportedly developing a data-center AI chip (NPU). Likely targeting inferencing, this chip’s raison d’etre is unclear.
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Hoping the Third Time is the Charm, Intel Samples Gaudi 3
Sampling its third and final Gaudi AI accelerator (NPU), Intel sets its eyes on enterprise customers. Intel Gaudi 3 tops Nvidia H100’s performance and scales out to 8,000-NPU clusters.
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Stalled for Phones and Removed from Android, RISC-V Will Succeed Elsewhere
Google has stripped RISC-V support from the Android Common Kernel, but the ISA has always had other obstacles to adoption in smartphone application processing. Nonetheless, other designs will employ the ISA for such processing.