Hot Chips 2024: AI Hype Booms, But Can Nvidia’s Challengers Succeed?

Hot Chips 2024: AI Hype Booms, But Can Nvidia’s Challengers Succeed?
by Joseph Byrne on 09-09-2024 at 10:00 am

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You don’t know you’re at a peak until you start to descend, and Hot Chips 2024 is proof that AI hype is still climbing among semiconductor vendors. Juggernaut Nvidia, startups, hyperscalers, and major companies presented their AI accelerators (GPUs and neural-processing units—NPUs) and touched on the challenges of software,… Read More


OpenPOWER Keeps On Truckin’ At Annual Development Summit

OpenPOWER Keeps On Truckin’ At Annual Development Summit
by Patrick Moorhead on 06-06-2016 at 4:00 pm

The OpenPOWER Foundation, a collection of companies that have coalesced around IBM’s POWER architecture recently had their OpenPOWER Summit in San Jose, California. OpenPOWER was founded by IBM, Google, Tyan and Mellanox to coalesce around IBM’s approach towards opening up the POWER architecture to anyone that wishes to licenseRead More