Some folks say that NVIDIA has lost its early pole position in autonomous driving. Tesla de-selected NVIDIA to power its autonomous vehicle computing, and BMW picked Intel to be its technology supplier for autonomous driving systems. However, considering the company NVIDIA keeps and its wide array of technology, expertise, and services, I wouldn’t count it out. …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) development and deployment in the cloud is rapidly growing and becoming a critical market for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Many enterprises are now developing their own AI applications or adding AI features to their internal infrastructure, and the cloud is often the best place to build an …
Xilinx launched its next-generation 7nm Versal product, based on the Adaptable Computing Acceleration Platform, at the Xilinx Developer Forum in San Jose this week. It also announced its first production PCIe board, called Alveo, around which it is already building a thriving ecosystem. Let’s dive in to understand what was announced and what it might …
NVIDIA ’s datacenter business has been on a tear lately, roughly doubling every year for the past several years. It hit $1.93 billion for the 2018 fiscal year, an increase of nearly 130% over the previous year. This growth has been largely driven by the pervasive use of NVIDIA GPUs in HPC and in neural …
We’re going to see a lot of Artificial Intelligence-related headlines over the next four weeks stemming from three big industry events. While each has its unique focus, all three events will be centered around the progress being made in developing and running AI applications that deliver real business value. Beyond the typical AI hype, a …
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Xilinx , the market share leader in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), presented five sessions at this week’s HotChips ’18 conference in Cupertino, California. These included CEO Victor Peng’s keynote on the company’s vision for the future of adaptable domain specific computing, new features of its upcoming 7nm Project Everest architecture, and pre-built applications for …
NVIDIA has been hinting about Xavier for a couple of years now, and it finally revealed significant details at the recent HotChips’ 30th annual conference in Cupertino, California. This device is a huge System-On-a-Chip (SOC) designed to support a wide variety of complex AI inference processing in real-time, for drones, robotics, and autonomous driving. Frankly, …
FPGAs from Intel and Xilinx have been steadily carving out niches in datacenter applications where low power, high performance, and configurability may trump programming challenges. Xilinx and AWS have been working with solution providers to create shrink-wrapped applications and tools which use AWS F1 FPGA instances, and Microsoft has recently announced some pretty stellar results …
The Autonomous Vehicle of the future is getting incrementally closer, with technological advances in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) features such as emergency braking, lane keeping, pedestrian warnings, sign reading, and adaptive cruise control. While Intel ’s Mobileye is the market leader today for auto vision processing, many automakers are opting for more flexible and …
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Microsoft is justifiably proud of its hardware/software co-design approach to accelerating a wide range of data center workloads using Intel FPGAs. The company recently shared some progress in this area and subsequently announced its acquisition of the AI startup Bonsai to ease the on-ramp for building AI on Microsoft. These advances give more advantages to …
Wave Computing, a Silicon Valley AI startup specializing in data flow processing of Deep Neural Networks, has acquired MIPS Technologies for an undisclosed amount. Wave projects that the acquisition will be immediately cash-flow positive and accretive to its balance sheet and valuation. The deal logic is pretty sound, adding new markets such as edge AI …
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IBM , NVIDIA , and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that they have completed testing the world’s fastest supercomputer, Summit, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Capable of over 200 petaflops (200 quadrillion operations per second), Summit consists of 4600 IBM dual socket Power 9 nodes, connected by …
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Intel held its inaugural Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developers Conference in San Francisco on May 23-24th, presenting its leadership, technologies, and customers to a capacity audience of some 800 AI geeks and media. The company now has a rich portfolio of AI technologies, after acquiring Movidius and MobileEye for real-time processing, Altera for reprogrammable FPGA acceleration …
Over the last several years, Intel has acquired four companies to go after the AI market: Nervana, Movidius, MobileEye, and Altera. Now the company has announced a new software strategy to unify these offerings for the application developer. While there is still much work to be done, Intel’s inference strategy looks pretty solid and should …
In NVIDIA ’s Q1 2019 quarter, the company once again exceeded expectations, reporting a 66% growth in total revenue, including 71% growth in its red-hot datacenter business (reaching $701M for the quarter). For NVIDIA, the “Datacenter” segment includes High-Performance Computing (HPC), datacenter-hosted graphics, and AI acceleration. While that is certainly an impressive growth rate, it is smaller than …
Cray and AMD have announced the availability of AMD EPYC 32-core CPUs on the supercomputer company’s midrange cluster system, the Cray CS500. AMD has enjoyed a long and successful relationship with Cray, supplying Opteron processors in big iron Cray supercomputers such as that deployed in the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA) Blue Waters at the University …
A few weeks ago, we covered ARM’s announcement that it would be delivering a suite of AI hardware IP for Deep Learning, called Project Trillium. ARM announced at the time that third party IP could be integrated with the Trillium platform, and now ARM and NVIDIA have teamed up to do just that. Specifically the …
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NVIDIA announced today that it has combined its historical strength in high-performance 3D graphics with its Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to create a cloud-based platform for simulating and testing the driving operations of autonomous vehicles. By enabling developers to virtualize the closed-loop system of sensors, image processing, routing, and driving controls, the company’s new DRIVE …
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Xilinx , the leading vendor for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips, has announced its widely-expected 7nm generation architecture, called Everest, targeting datacenter acceleration applications as well as AI, IOT and the company’s traditional markets. While most market observers expected Xilinx to beat Intel (Altera) to the 7nm milestone, the scope of the Everest program …
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Just before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) confab, where techies meet to enjoy tapas in Barcelona while learning about all things mobile, Qualcomm announced a new software suite. These new offerings seek to enable AI capabilities on existing Snapdragon mobile platforms. While most training of Deep Neural Networks is done in the cloud on NVIDIA …
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