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Intel and Nvidia Recast AI Platforms

Partnership targets heterogeneous client and data center systems

OpenAI’s $180B chip bet hits a wall

Broadcom wants Microsoft to commit before money moves

Tenstorrent goes general-purpose in an age of AI specialization

Company says one system can do the whole inference job.

IBM’s latest AI processor is GPU-free

It does have 32 NPUs, however.

AI Vector Vision reframes computer vision

Deterministic, vector-based representation.

Taalas bets on hard‑wired models to beat GPUs at inference

Toronto start-up Taalas fixes trained LLMs directly in silicon.

Vaire Computing bets on reversible chips

Sunnyvale, CA, start-up tackles AI power problem at the physics level.

SK Hynix backs Semidynamics AI chips

Strategic investment accelerates memory-first AI inference platform.

Socionext’s custom XPU and AI data center chiplet platform 

Partners up with Arm's CPU.

Rebellions’ Rebel100 NPU 

Designed for servers and pods.

Fujitsu joins the AIP crowd with an NPU

Targeted at inference servers using advanced Japanese semi production.

AI processor architectures are evolving almost as fast as LLMs are

AGI will not be realized with just more clever software.