Tag: Accelerator Chips
A small player in the PC market, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X launch for Microsoft’s new category of Copilot+ PCs marks the chip designer’s biggest move in the space to date, creating a new wave of competition not only for Intel and AMD but also Apple. Qualcomm launched its highly anticipated Arm-based Snapdragon X processors on Monday,…
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With the Series E financing round the company achieves “unicorn” status with a $1.6 billion valuation as data-intensive AI and generative AI applications boost demand for the company’s software. Data management platform developer WekaIO has raised $140 million in an oversubscribed Series E round of funding that boosts the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion, the…
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A source confirms to CRN key details of a report stating that Intel has started to sunset its first-gen Max Series GPU so that the semiconductor giant can focus on selling its Gaudi accelerator chips and developing the next-gen Falcon Shores GPU. Intel is sunsetting its first-generation Max Series GPU, previously code-named Ponte Vecchio, to…
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The semiconductor giant is seeking external funding to help pay for new fabs as part of CEO Pat Gelsinger’s comeback plan, which calls for a major expansion in chip manufacturing capacity in the West to support an expected increase demand for its own products as well as its revitalized contract chip-making business. Intel is close…
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Taking his place is Kevin O’Buckley, a veteran of IBM, GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technologies who will now lead the semiconductor giant’s contract chip manufacturing division, which is a key part of CEO Pat Gelsinger’s comeback plan. Intel said on Monday that the head of the company’s contract chip manufacturing division is retiring and handing the…
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Once seen as a viable competitor to Nvidia, Graphcore’s business suffered in 2022 from deteriorating macroeconomic conditions that slowed down sales of systems outfitted with its IPUs, and now it’s reportedly in talks to sell itself to Japanese investment giant SoftBank. Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Graphcore, a…
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The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant claims that the new M4 system-on-chip inside the forthcoming 11- and 13-inch iPad Pro tablets has more powerful AI processing capabilities than processors powering any Windows-based AI PC on the market today. Apple is using the reveal of its new, M4-powered iPad Pro tablets to claim it’s far ahead of…
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In Apple’s first-quarter earnings call, the chief executive of Apple says the company will make an announcement in the ‘weeks head’ and added that he expects generative AI capabilities to come to the ‘vast majority of our devices.’ Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company plans to share details “soon” about new generative AI capabilities…
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CRN rounds up five cool AI and high-performance computing servers from Dell Technologies, Lenovo, Supermicro and Gigabyte that use AMD’s Instinct MI300 chips, which launched a few months ago to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space. AMD is making its biggest challenge yet to Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space with its…
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The semiconductor giant says its AI model optimization work is important because ‘models form the backbone of AI-enhanced software features like object removal, image super resolution or text summarization.’ Intel said it has optimized more than 500 AI models for its Core Ultra processors, calling the move a “significant milestone” in its effort to position…
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