… If Sberbank wants a fully Chinese-supplied AI compute stack for GigaChat, it’s going to need both chips at volume. …
… The Ascend 950PR, an inference-focused chip, entered mass production in April, while the Ascend 950DT, designed for AI training workloads, is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter. …
… So, where does that leave the AI industry? Western frontier labs must keep pace with the competition on offer overseas, and the intensifying competition is slimming down margins for what we assume to be already subsidized token costs. …
… In certain approved workloads, the chip put up an impressive showing , nipping at the heels of its Xeon and Epyc x86 competitors. In specific single-threaded scenarios, Vera "absolutely dusted the competition" our words . …
… Go deeper with TH Premium: Chipmaking A deeper look at the chipmaking supply chain TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined China reportedly reverse-engineers EUV tool China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking Swipe to scroll horizontally AMD MI350X and MI355X specficaitions Speci… …
… The chipmaker is now the Official Compute Partner of the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team, Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team, and McLaren F1 Sim Racing Team, according to a press release today. Interestingly, this announcement again pits Intel against its PC chip industry nemesis, AMD. …
… In most of the tests, the Vera processors are highly competitive against the competition, which includes AMD EPYC "Turin" processors in single- and dual-CPU configurations as well as an Intel "Granite Rapids" Xeon chip. …
… "HBM, which is indispensable for the training and inference of AI models, requires cutting-edge technology for stacking semiconductor chips," the Samsung chairman said. …
… While LG's entrance will hardly have any noticeable impact on the market for at least a couple of years, another supplier could eventually add much-needed capacity, increase competition, and give chipmakers and OSATs another source of advanced packaging equipment. …
… Back in August, it was reported that DeepSeek couldn’t complete a single successful training run for its R2 model in Ascend chips, even with Huawei engineers on site, blaming unstable performance, slow chip-to-chip interconnects, and gaps in Huawei's CANN software stack, its substitute for Nvidia's… …