CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
… Because modern machine-learning frameworks are built on CUDA, which crucially runs on Nvidia chips, AMD’s chips underperform even when they have more cores and memory. …
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AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
… A number of high-end chips now offer similar raw floating point performance—a key industry benchmark of a chip’s ability to perform simple calculations—to Nvidia’s best silicon. “The best AMD hardware, the best Amazon Trainium hardware, the best Google TPUs, give you the same theoretical flops to N… …
Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips
… At the chip reveal event, Arm executives emphasized the company’s history of designing energy-efficient chips and claimed that its new AGI CPU will be the world’s “most efficient agentic CPU on the market.” Compared to competitors like the latest x86 chips made by Intel and AMD, Arm says this chip … …
Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product
… Perhaps they will deliver to devices a lot of the power of the heavy-duty silicon provided by the industry’s leader in AI chips, Nvidia. Reportedly Apple already has a deal with Broadcom for AI chips to be delivered in the next year or so. …
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
… The US government bars Nvidia from selling its most capable chips to China but late last year loosened restrictions to allow it to sell more advanced chips there. …
Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
… Nvidia released the first Nemotron model in November 2023. He adds that Nvidia recently finished pretraining a 550-billion-parameter model. Pretraining involves feeding huge quantities of data into a model spread across vast numbers of specialized chips running in parallel. …
Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
… Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, and Qualcomm all make or sell chips based on Arm, either licensing the chip designs or paying royalties to the firm. It’s been estimated that there are three Arm chips for every human on Earth. …
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Look Hell-Bent on Disruption
Announced over the weekend at the Computex tech expo in Taiwan, RTX Spark chips combine unified memory, RTX graphics, and the new part: the N1 CPU. Nvidia already owns the entire world of AI processed in data centers with its GPUs. …
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
… So they're going to pair Nvidia's chips, which are good at processing AI, with Groq's chips, which have components that can put a charge into how Nvidia's chips operate. …
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
… That flexibility matters because US export controls restrict Chinese firms from accessing the world's most advanced AI chips, particularly those used for training, which at this point are primarily developed by Western companies like Nvidia. “We will continue to push for training on more different … …