Tag: Accelerator Chips
Microsoft is pitching Recall, which takes periodic screenshots of a computer’s screen to enable new search capabilities, as a key feature for Copilot+ PCs. Launching next week, these devices are what the company is calling ‘the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built.’ Microsoft said it’s delaying the public release of Recall, the controversial, AI-enabled…
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Apple’s much-anticipated upcoming suite of AI features for select iPhones, Macs and iPads is called Apple Intelligence, and it will include an enhanced Siri experience, systemwide Writing Tools, message and notification prioritization, call transcription and summarization, and ChatGPT integration. Apple Monday revealed Apple Intelligence, its much-anticipated suite of AI features that will enhance Siri’s natural…
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Venture capital continues to flow to startups developing artificial intelligence and generative AI technology. Here’s a look at 10 companies that successfully raised new funding in May. Follow The Money The venture capital space continues to show signs of exiting the slump it has been in since early 2022. But while startups in such technology…
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With Nvidia, Intel and AMD signaling that the semiconductor industry is entering a new era of hyperdrive, Computex 2024 was an event not to miss for channel partners who are building businesses around next-generation PCs and data centers, especially when it comes to AI. The future of AI computing was on full display at this…
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For the week ending June 7, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Cisco Systems, SAP, Workday, Intel and AMD. The Week Ending June 7 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Cisco Systems, which launched a $1 billion global AI investment fund to make strategic…
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In opening-day keynotes at the Sapphire conference Tuesday SAP executives unveiled new and extended alliances with AI tech leaders, including Nvidia, AWS and Microsoft, and detailed plans to expand integrations of the company’s Joule generative AI copilot with more SAP products. Application software giant SAP is vowing to infuse AI technology and capabilities across a…
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Intel says the investment will add to the $18.4 billion it has put into Fab 34 so far, and it will allow the chipmaker to ‘unlock and redeploy to other parts of its business a portion of this investment while continuing the build-out’ of the Ireland plant. Intel announced on Tuesday that it has secured…
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While public pricing for CPUs has been standard in the data center industry, it’s been the opposite case for GPUs and other kinds of accelerator chips. An Intel exec explains to CRN why the company is changing its stance with the upcoming Gaudi 3 AI chips. Intel said it’s upending a norm of secrecy in…
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The chip designer claims that its forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 mobile processors for Windows Copilot+ PCs can outperform its rivals’ chips in NPU performance, large language model performance, productivity, graphics, multitasking, video editing and 3-D rendering. AMD has revealed its third generation of Ryzen processors for AI PCs with a new brand name, claiming that…
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The chip designer says the Instinct MI325X data center GPU will best Nvidia’s H200 in memory capacity, memory bandwidth and peak theoretical performance for 8-bit floating point and 16-bit floating point in the fight to power future generative AI workloads. AMD plans to release a new Instinct data center GPU later this year with significantly…
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