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The world's largest chip finds a home inside the world's fastest AI computer

What just happened? Cerebras Systems over the summer unveiled an absolutely massive chip in the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine. With 1.2 trillion transistors on board, it is the largest chip in the world and now it has a home in the company’s latest system designed to accelerate deep learning.

Unveiled at the Supercomputing 2019 conference this week, the new CS-1 measures roughly 26 inches tall meaning three can fit in a single rack. It consumes 20kW of power, 4kW of

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Centaur Creates First x86 SoC with Integrated AI Co-Processor

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People typically think of x86 processors as coming from Intel and AMD, but there is a third architectural license holder: VIA . This week, an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of the Taipei-headquartered company announced it's demonstrating an x86 processor that comes with an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) co-processor.

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AMD announces Radeon Pro W5700 with 2304 Stream Processors for 799 USD

Today AMD launches its 'first 7nm workstation graphics card'. AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Radeon Pro W5700 in a nutshell: First Workstation card with PCIe 4.0 First Workstation card manufactured in 7nm node First Radeon Pro with USB-C connector 2304 Stream Processors @ 8.9 TFLOPs 8GB GDDR6 256-bit The Radeon Pro workstation series is receiving an update. The WX series will be succeeded by the W series. This is probablyNone

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MSI TRX40 Creator Preview

With the new Threadripper CPUs on the horizon all the motherboard manufacturers have TRX40 motherboards to support them, and it's time to look at the MSI Creator.

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VIA CenTaur Develops a Multi-core x86 Processor for Enterprise with in-built AI Hardware

Tasting Intel's blood in the water with AMD's return to competitiveness, dormant x86 licensee VIA wants to take another swing at the market, this time with a multi-core processor targeted at enterprises and possibly workstations, developed by its subsidiary CenTaur. The company appears to want to cash in on the AI boom, and could develop turnkey facial-recognition CCTV solutions with the chip. CenTaur is ready with a working prototype. It features eight 64-bit x86 CPU cores, andNone
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映泰透露AMD B550已經準備好了,Intel 400系列明年發

大家應該都應該知道Intel會在明年年初推出新的Comet Lake台式機處理器,它們將使用新的LGA 1200接口,搭配新的400系列主板使用,而AMD這邊,X570主板的定位是高端,中端主流雖然舊的B450還可以使用,但這並不是長


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(PR) Intel unveils Ponte Vecchio HPC Exascale GPU, OneApi and Aurora Supercomputer

Intel Unveils New GPU Architecture with High-Performance Computing and AI Acceleration, and oneAPI Software Stack with Unified and Scalable Abstraction for Heterogeneous Architectures Raja Koduri, senior vice president, chief architect, and general manager of architecture, graphics and software at Intel Corporation, addresses the audience at the Intel HPC Developer Conference on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in Denver. (Credit: Intel Corporation) News Highlights: Intel launches oneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model to harness the power of diverse computingNone

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AMD Athlon Gold 3150U處理器現身,以後還會有Athlon Silver嗎?

藉着Intel處理器缺貨的機會,還有自己強勁的Zen架構,AMD不單在桌面市場對Intel展開猛攻,移動市場上AMD也奪回了不少份額,AMD的移動處理器也一個接一個的冒出來,現在Geekbench的數據庫裏面就出現了一款名為Athlon Gold 3150U的處理器。

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Finally, an AMD-Powered NUC-Like PC for SFF Lovers

Simply NUC Sequoia

Simply NUC Sequoia

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Simply NUC has announced Sequoia, the company's latest line of rugged ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PCs. The two new PCs are the vendor's first to use APUs from the AMD Ryzen V1000 series. There have been other AMD-powered small form factor (SFF) systems before, but this is the closest one to a NUC that we've seen yet.

The Sequoia is aimed at edge data analytics,


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Apple Alums Challenge AMD, Intel in Data Center With Phoenix Processor

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Former Apple chip designers Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati and John Bruno, have launched a new start-up called Nuvia Inc that plans to take on Intel and AMD in the data center with a new server-focused processor codenamed  “Phoenix.”

The company raised $53 million from Dell Technologies Capital and several other Silicon Valley investors, according to Reuters today. Nuvia plans to use the money to increase the number of employees from 60 to 100 by the end of

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