Hardware
Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU
Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Hardware
Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.
Huawei is emerging as an important supplier of AI chips. Amid a U.S. ban on exports of advanced chips to China, demand for Huawei’s AI chips is so intense that the company is limiting production of the chip that powers one of its most popular smartphones so it can serve the AI market.
Hardware
GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.
The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.
Hardware
More Cloud GPUs on the Way: Voltage Park offers Nvidia GPUs at $1.89/hour for startups and researchers
A new cloud-computing company promises to provide scarce AI processing power to startups and researchers. Voltage Park, a nonprofit north of Silicon Valley, will offer processing power from 24,000 top-of-the-line Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs)...
Tech & Society
AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.
An upstart supplier of AI chips secured a major customer. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia in hardware for training large models, signed a $100 million contract with Abu Dhabi tech conglomerate G42. The deal is the first part of a multi-stage plan to build a network of supercomputers.
Hardware
GPU Shortage Intensifies: All about Nvidia's GPU shortage
Nvidia’s top-of-the-line chips are in high demand and short supply. There aren’t enough H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) to meet the crush of demand brought on by the vogue for generative AI, VentureBeat reported.
Business
Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.
Chinese companies have found loopholes to sidestep United States limits on AI chips. Facing severe limits on U.S. exports of high-performance chips, Chinese AI firms are purchasing them through subsidiaries and using them through cloud services, the Financial Times reported.
Hardware
No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage
Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.
Tech & Society
AI Chips Spark International Tension: U.S. Blocks AI Chip Sales to China
New U.S. restrictions on chip sales aim to hamper China’s AI efforts. The U.S. government published sweeping limits on sales of processors that involve U.S. designs and technology to Chinese businesses. U.S. officials stated that the restrictions are meant to prevent China from militarizing AI.
Business
Chipmaker Boosts AI as a Service: Nvidia Launches Cloud Service for NLP Models
Nvidia, known for chips designed to process AI systems, is providing access to large language models. Nvidia announced early access to NeMo LLM and BioNeMo, cloud-computing services that enable developers to generate text and biological sequences respectively.
Business
The Geopolitics of GPUs: US Bans Nvidia and AMD Chip Sales to China
The ban impacts Nvidia's A100 and H100 chips, and AMD's MI250.
Tech & Society
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.