… 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. …
… 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… …
… 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. …
… 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… …
… True enough, Nvidia’s AI chip market share in China has fallen to “zero percent,” compared to the 95% it previously held before the AI chip bans. And even if that’s the case, Chinese firms still continue making frontier AI models and remain competitive against American AI tech companies. …
… Tom's Hardware Premium Roadmaps High-Bandwidth Memory HBM Roadmap Nvidia Enterprise GPU and CPU Roadmap AI accelerator Roadmap Desktop GPU Roadmap 3D NAND Roadmap Nvidia's Rubin Ultra GPU with four compute chiplets was arguably one of Nvidia's most ambitious projects in recent years, as it not only… …
… 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 The PCB shots confirm that Intel has opted to go with a single-GPU setu… …
… AMD calls the MI455X “by leaps and bounds the most advanced AI accelerator we’ve ever built,” and from what we’ve seen, it’s the most competitive product at both the chip level and at rack scale that AMD has ever put up against Nvidia’s thorough dominance of the AI compute race. …
… Unfortunately, these chips cost twice or thrice as much as their 2GB variants, which will likely push the retail price of these cards beyond Nvidia’s envisioned MSRP. …