Tag: Accelerator Chips
Victor Peng’s retirement was announced as AMD seeks to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in AI chips for data centers with an expanded road map of Instinct processors. AMD announced on Monday that President Victor Peng, who has been leading the chip designer’s company-wide AI strategy, will retire next month. Peng (pictured) joined AMD in 2022 when…
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As general manager of AMD’s client computing business, Rahul Tikoo is charged with growing the chip designer’s Ryzen CPU brand, which has played a key role in the company’s comeback, and fighting for share in the nascent but fast-growing AI PC space. After leaving AMD more than 11 years ago, longtime Dell Technologies executive Rahul…
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The latest startup acquired by Nvidia is Brev.dev, which helps AI developers find the most cost-effective GPU compute across cloud providers. This comes after Nvidia acquired two other startups with the explicit purpose of expanding the capabilities of its DGX Cloud service. Nvidia has bought a startup that helps AI developers find the most cost-effective…
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As part of the annual Tech Innovator Awards evaluation process CRN selects a number of the applicants as finalists. Here’s a look at the innovative products that have made the first round of the judging. Innovation Surge The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in the last two years has shaken up…
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The PC and print giant says a ‘deep co-engineering’ partnership with AMD allowed it to push the limit for neural processing unit performance in its forthcoming OmniBook Ultra laptop, which will benefit a growing number of AI-enabled applications. HP Inc. is calling its newly revealed OmniBook Ultra laptop the “world’s highest-performance AI PC,” and to…
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The new release of the Alluxio Enterprise AI data orchestration platform makes it easier to use GPU-based systems for training and operating AI applications and to provision AI/ML systems with data at HPC levels. Alluxio has launched a new release of its data management platform for AI tasks that can better utilize high-performance GPU systems,…
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‘In SoftBank, we have a partner that can enable the Graphcore team to redefine the landscape for AI technology,’ Graphcore co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon says of the acquisition. Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group has acquired AI chip designer Graphcore as part of what it called its “journey” to artificial general intelligence, or AGI for…
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As part of its efforts to challenge Nvidia, the chip designer says its $665 million acquisition of European AI lab and open-source large language model developer Silo AI will help enterprises develop and deploy AI solutions faster and more effectively. AMD has reached a deal to acquire Silo AI, which it called the largest private…
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CRN rounds up the 10 biggest Nvidia news stories of 2024 so far, which range from three software startup acquisition deals and plans to boost AI PC development, to expanded partnerships with major tech vendors and significant financial milestones. It’s halfway through 2024, and Nvidia has managed to fit what feels like a year’s worth…
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In an interview with CRN, HP commercial PC leader Guayente Sanmartin and colleague Alex Thatcher explain why Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X processors for PCs will have ‘much more success’ with business customers than previous efforts but adoption will take ‘a lot of time.’ The head of HP Inc.’s commercial PC business said Qualcomm’s latest effort…
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