The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Speedata, a semiconductor infrastructure company developing hardware accelerators for analytics and databases, today announced that it raised $55 million in a series A round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, 83North, and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Pitango First, Viola […]
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IBM proposes AI chip with benchmark-beating power efficiency
IBM claims to have developed one of the world’s first energy-efficient chips for AI inferencing and training built with 7-nanometer technology. In a paper presented at the 2021 International Solid-State Circuits Virtual Conference in early February, a team of researchers at the company detailed a hardware accelerator that supports a range of model types while […]
Apple’s 2021 chip strategy will create a massively parallel universe
After years of rumors, Apple in November unveiled M1, a hybrid CPU, GPU, and AI processor designed to directly challenge Intel’s laptop and desktop chips, promising that three initial Mac computers would be faster than 98% of recent PC laptops. Apple chip lead Johny Srouji explained the design in an interesting way: M1’s four low-powered CPU cores […]