The steady arrivals of new processor cores and new products built around them can only mean one thing…the holidays are coming! While all the little children wait for turkey, pumpkins, pie, treats, lights, parties, and on and on, the people in the tech industry have their own elves—Jensen, Lisa, Tim, Bob. Jon Peddie does his best, to sum up, what … Read more
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
(Source: KPF. Beijing Century City) As mentioned in my Siggraph blog, the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the way content is created and consumed. Work now often involves teams dispersed worldwide, working remotely on high-resolution content while using multiple workloads and requiring massive computing resources. Nvidia has contributed with the new RTX A6000 and A40 AIBs that use the 8 … Read more
Nvidia announced a partnership with VMware. The companies plan to deliver an end-to-end platform for AI in the enterprise and new architecture. The architecture says Nvidia can be used for data centers, cloud, and edge systems that use Nvidia’s DPUs (data processing units) to support existing and next-generation applications. Nvidia’s DPU AIB. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia will bring its AI … Read more
Platforms are key to success
When 3D graphics controllers were just immerging in the late 1990s, one company in particular, 3Dfx, experimented with ways to scale up the performance of accelerating the 3D gameplay
In 2009 rumors started about the possibility of Nvidia acquiring AMD to give Nvidia a CPU capability. In 2011 Jensen Huang settled the subject decisively when he said, Arm is our CPU. Nine years later he put the period on that statement when he announced the acquisition of Arm for $40 billion. The rumor that Nvidia might acquire Arm has … Read more
Shipments surprise: Jon Peddie Research reports that PC GPU market shipments increased by 2.5% sequentially from last quarter
Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, yet enjoyed a … Read more
I didn’t have to drive one and a half hours each way to hear and see the GPU presentations at Hot Chips this year, something I will be eternally grateful for. I did miss getting to see some of my friends, but I see many of them on Zoom calls anyway. The air didn’t get any more polluted and my … Read more
The new normal is not normal, and may not be again for a long time. Q2 which has traditionally been a down quarter was up for Intel year-to-year, and flat quarter-to-quarter. But Q3 is being guided down, and Intel still is dealing with manufacturing issues—the new normal. By midday the day after Intel’s report, AMD soared over 15% while Intel … Read more
University of Florida HiPerGator The University of Florida announced a public-private partnership with Nvidia to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia capable of 700 petaflops AI performance. The University says the new computer will catapult UF’s research strength to address some of the world’s most formidable challenges, create unprecedented access to AI training and tools for underrepresented communities, and … Read more
