… MORE CONTEXT Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems Nvidia powers further into the CPU … …
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… But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver. That will start to change next week when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang uses his company’s GPU Technology Conference better known as GTC to explain how he will use the token-spewing accelerator tech he acquired with upstart Groq late last year. …
… Uses a 2x2 configuration of smaller compute chiplets surrounded by several HBM stacks and two network chiplets, along with an SoC chiplet that provides PCIe connectivity to the host CPU and scale-out NICs. Meta plans mass deployment in 2027. Meta also posted specs for the chips. …
… MORE CONTEXT Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they're inferior and may always be Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fil… …
… Its GPGPU line – graphics chips that don't even have graphics outputs – are the last gasp of the discrete GPU market. When this bubble pops, Nvidia has nowhere else to go. …
… MORE CONTEXT Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time Any ti… …
… Less than a month later, AMD had closed that gap considerably and now outperforms Nvidia in some regimes. However, that's in an apples-to-apples comparison between the two chips running SGLang. AMD still has a ways to go to catch up with Nvidia's in-house inference engine TensorRT LLM. …
… "While Renee talked about non-SMT and optimization, a week before, Jensen showed another CPU which has SMT." Nvidia's Vera CPUs feature 88 of its custom Arm-based Olympus cores, which include what the GPU giant calls "spatial multithreading." As Nvidia explains it, the tech essentially splits each … …
Nvidia GTC Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs GTC Space could be the final frontier for datacenters. …