Intel acquired Israeli-based chip maker Habana Labs in 2019 to advance its AI strategy and strengthen its portfolio of AI accelerators for the cloud and data center. The deal was worth approximately $2 billion. Was it a good deal?
Intel acquired Israeli-based chip maker Habana Labs in 2019 to advance its AI strategy and strengthen its portfolio of AI accelerators for the cloud and data center. The deal was worth approximately $2 billion. Was it a good deal? It’s shaping up. This week at the AWS re: Invent 2020 conference, AWS CEO Andy Jassy Introduced elastic computing (EC2) instances … Read more
AMD gains in market share
Image credit: Intel Intel recently revealed the H3C XG310, a GPU AIB targeted at cloud gaming and media streaming. The AIB has four of Intel’s new Server GPUs, DG1dGPU based on the Xe-LP microarchitecture. Each dGPU has 96 execution units and 8GB of LPDDR4X memory. There is a 128-bit memory bus, and Intel fabs the chip on its 10nm SuperFin … Read more
Fujitsu has been in the workstation business for 30 years. The Fujitsu workstation group has a rich and long-standing history. It has developed powerful, reliable leading-edge systems for over 30 years. Fujitsu and Siemens began in 1923. In 1990, Siemens and Nixdorf formed Siemens Nixdorf Computers AG. Siemens Nixdorf started its workstation business in 1991. Those workstations were based on … Read more
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
AMD announced its new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator AIB. The company claims it is the world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64). AMD assessed performance in their labs using their new MI100 32GB HBM2 AIB and ran it with a 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock. That resulted in 11.54 TFLOPS peak double precision (FP64). … Read more
Similar chip as used in notebooks
(Source: Apple) The heart of Apple’s three new PC, Air, Mac Pro, and Mini is Apple’s new SoC, the M1, announced on the 10th of November 2020. Apple has built SoCs for its smartphones and MP3 players for almost two decades, so this is not a new adventure for the company. The M1 differs from the iPhone’s A13 Bionic … Read more
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