Tag: Accelerator Chips
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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In AMD’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Lisa Su teases that the company will share details in the ‘coming months’ about new Instinct accelerator chips for data centers arriving ‘later this year into 2025’ amid heightened competition with Nvidia. AMD’s business is in much better shape than it was a year ago, thanks to its PC…
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In an interview with CRN, AMD’s Matt Unangst says channel partners have a ‘really important role’ to play in helping business customers understand the value of AI PCs and how its latest Ryzen Pro processors are enabling ‘best-in-class’ performance and battery life. The head of AMD’s commercial PC business said the company’s latest Ryzen processors…
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‘Semiconductors are the currency that will drive the global economy for decades to come. We are one of two, maybe three, companies in the world that can continue to enable next-generation chip technologies and the only one that has Western capacity and R&D, and we will participate in the entire AI market,’ says Intel CEO…
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‘What does it mean that Intel’s chip is AI-enabled? What does it mean that the Dell and Lenovo and HP laptops are AI-enabled? What does that do for me? … The more clarity that we can bring to our partners, the better,’ says Kirk Robinson, executive vice president and president of North America at Ingram…
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For the week ending April 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including IBM, Nvidia, ThreatLocker, HPE Aruba and FlexAI. The Week Ending April 26 Topping this week’s Came to Win is IBM for its blockbuster deal to acquire cloud infrastructure management tool developer HashiCorp. Also…
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