Tag: Accelerator Chips
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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For the week ending May 31, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including T-Mobile, CloudFlare, Cisco Systems, Lenovo and CoreWeave, along with all the companies that made this year’s CRN Solution Provider 500. The Week Ending May 31 Topping this week’s Came to Win is T-Mobile…
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Fresh off its $1.1 billion funding round this month, cloud AI startup CoreWeave is reportedly looking to hit the public market by the first half of 2025. Here’s what you need to know. CoreWeave, the cloud AI startup heavily backed by Nvidia and private equity firms, is reportedly seeking to become a public company in…
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The main contributor was Nvidia’s data center revenue, which more than quintupled in the first quarter from the same period last year, growing 427 percent year-over-year to $22.5 billion. Nvidia once again reported triple-digit growth in revenue and profit in the latest quarter from the same period last year, a sign that demand for the…
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Qualcomm is stepping up the competition against Intel and AMD in the PC processor space with its new Snapdragon X chips, which it says enable faster performance, better on-device AI processing and longer battery life in several high-end laptops from HP, Dell and Lenovo. Microsoft is signaling the dawn of a new era for personal…
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Research firm TechInsights tells CRN that Google’s revenue for data center processors may exceed Intel’s in the near future thanks to the popularity of its Tensor Processing Units and the upcoming launch of its Arm-based Axion CPUs for cloud customers. Google was the third largest provider of data center processors by revenue last year, just…
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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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