Year: 2024
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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.
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Blaize Raises Cash Just Before Its SPAC Merger
Raising money just before closing a SPAC merger, Blaize invites more skepticism than is already inherent in a SPAC deal. The transparency required of public companies inspires confidence in their products, not just their finances.
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Arm Ethos-U85 NPU Raises Edge AI Performance and Efficiency
Arm’s Ethos-U85 NPU boasts higher performance, efficiency, and transformer network support compared to the Ethos-U65. Targeting edge AI applications, it scales from 256 GOPS to 4 TOPS and integrates with both Cortex-M and Cortex-A CPUs.
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We Await Reviews While Qualcomm Trickles Out Snapdragon X SKUs News
Qualcomm has begun announcing Snapdragon X models and reiterates lofty, but still unvalidated, performance claims. Performance and AI capabilities will determine if the Qualcomm Snapdragon X is the final attempt at an ARM PC processor or the first in a wave that breaks x86 hegemony.
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Meta MTIA Metes Out Recommendations
Meta has deployed its custom MTIA NPU, boasting 3× faster inference for ad & recommendation models compared to its 1st gen. Built on TSMC’s N5 process and integrating RISC-V CPUs, this AI chip prioritizes efficiency for large-scale data center deployments.