Anthropic Hired the Person Who Built Google’s TPU Program
Seven. That’s how many generations of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit Amir Salek shipped before he left in 2022, and it matters more than his…
Seven. That’s how many generations of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit Amir Salek shipped before he left in 2022, and it matters more than his…
CME Group is launching two futures contracts on October 5 that will allow trading of Nvidia GPU rental prices, reflecting their high demand in…
Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, a powerful server rack featuring three wafer-scale chips, promising significant throughput improvements. However, despite reported advancements and a $180.1 million…
A Guardian investigation into internal Microsoft documents found the company has 2.2 million AI chips installed, a fraction of what its own gigawatt claims…
Firebird's Armenia AI factory, the biggest in the former Soviet bloc, is really a story about export licenses: Washington cleared Nvidia Blackwell into a…
Chicago's new executive order on data centers lacks a clear definition of what constitutes a data center, complicating regulatory measures. Mayor Brandon Johnson faces…
Qualcomm's exploration of RISC-V aims to secure alternatives to Arm, largely driven by the desire for independence amid competitive pressures. While Arm's royalties are…
Oracle's partnership with Quantinuum introduces a quantum computer within its Cloud Infrastructure, aiming to enhance hybrid workloads. Unlike AWS or Azure, this arrangement co-locates…
D-Wave's recent paper in Nature reveals a significant advance in error correction, showing a 99.9% fidelity using dual-rail erasure qubits. This architecture aims to…
Nvidia is partnering with major private capital firms to arrange $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, allowing customers to purchase its GPUs and build…
The Firebird AI factory needs 300 megawatts in a country whose grid peaks near 1,300 and leans on an aging Russian-fuelled reactor and Russian…
Elon Musk announced SpaceX's exclusive partnership with Nvidia during an earnings call, securing advanced hardware for AI satellite operations. SpaceX disclosed significant investments in…
AMD has agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup focusing on specialized inference silicon that embeds trained model weights directly into chips, enhancing efficiency but…
AMD and Anthropic announced a partnership involving 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs in Helios systems, supported by a $5 billion equity investment. The collaboration…
Anthropic is establishing an in-house chip team while securing multiple partnerships, including a $10 billion deal with Volta. The company aims to reduce dependency…
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