Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. reader comments 27 On Tuesday, Intel revealed a new AI accelerator chip called Gaudi 3 at its Vision 2024 event in Phoenix. With strong claimed performance while running large language models (like those that power ChatGPT), the company has positioned Gaudi 3 as… Read More »
Enlarge / OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman walks on the House side of the US Capitol on January 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Getty Images reader comments 98 On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors to raise as much… Read More »
reader comments 151 with In late 2020, Huawei was fighting for its survival as a mobile phone maker. A few months earlier, the Trump administration had hit the Chinese company with crippling sanctions, cutting it off from global semiconductor supply chains. The sanctions prevented anyone without a permit from making the chips Huawei designed, and… Read More »
Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its silicon substrate. Microsoft | Benj Edwards reader comments 20 with On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips… Read More »
Enlarge / Eight Nvidia H200 GPUs covered with a fanciful blue explosion that figuratively represents raw compute power bursting forth in a glowing flurry. Nvidia | Benj Edwards reader comments 47 with On Monday, Nvidia announced the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, which utilizes the Hopper architecture to accelerate AI applications. It’s a follow-up of… Read More »
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. reader comments 30 with On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in effect sooner than expected, according to a report from Reuters. The curbs were… Read More »
OpenAI / Benj Edwards reader comments 44 with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own AI accelerator chips, according to Reuters. Citing anonymous sources, the Reuters report indicates that OpenAI is considering the option due to a shortage of specialized AI GPU chips… Read More »
Enlarge / NVIDIA’s GH200 “Grace Hopper” AI superchip. reader comments 28 with Early last week at COMPUTEX, Nvidia announced that its new GH200 Grace Hopper “Superchip”—a combination CPU and GPU specifically created for large-scale AI applications—has entered full production. It’s a beast. It has 528 GPU tensor cores, supports up to 480GB of CPU RAM… Read More »