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Tenstorrent Unveils New Wormhole DevKits And Powerful AI Workstations

Tenstorrent Unveils New Wormhole DevKits And Powerful AI Workstations

AI chip firm Tenstorrent, led by renowned microprocessor engineer Jim Keller, just announced new devkits and AI workstations powered by the company’s leading-edge Wormhole accelerators. Tenstorrent has previously offered devkits (development kits) based on its Grayskull AI processor (and will continue doing so while inventory is available), but Wormhole features a newer, more-powerful architecture, and this marks the first time the company has offered complete workstations built around its chips.

Marco ChiappettaJuly 20, 2024TenstorrentComment

It’s Time For Aerospace And Defense To Embrace Hardware-Accurate Digital Twins

It’s Time For Aerospace And Defense To Embrace Hardware-Accurate Digital Twins

Digital twins are fundamental in many industries for delivering products, in the most efficient and timely manner. Of course, designing and building aerospace and defense systems will have requirements that don’t directly align to some other industries, but the benefits of physically accurate simulation and digital twin technologies still apply.

Marco ChiappettaJuly 17, 2024CadenceComment

Dell XPS 13 Powered By Snapdragon X Elite Tested: A Very Strong Start

Dell XPS 13 Powered By Snapdragon X Elite Tested: A Very Strong Start

Dell has never strayed from Intel Core processors to power its XPS 13 models, so this is a first to be sure, and a bold bet for the Round Rock, Texas company. I’d offer that bet was sound, from what I’ve seen thus far, and I’m impressed with this laptop as a potential daily driver.

Dave AltavillaJuly 10, 2024Dell, QualcommComment

AMD To Acquire Silo AI To Accelerate The Company’s AI Ambitions

AMD To Acquire Silo AI To Accelerate The Company’s AI Ambitions

AMD just announced the acquisition of Silo AI, the largest private AI lab in Europe. The companies have signed a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Silo AI in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $665 million.

Marco ChiappettaJuly 10, 2024AMDComment

AMD Blitzes Computex With AI, From Mobile To Desktops And Data Centers

AMD Blitzes Computex With AI, From Mobile To Desktops And Data Centers

In the resounding buzz that AI stirred at Computex 2024 in Taiwan, literally all of the major semiconductor players had something to say, though not all had new technologies that will shape this burgeoning new landscape. AMD, on the other hand, stepped out with a full arsenal of new chip technologies targeted at AI-fueled computing from the client edge to gaming desktops and workstation, and the AI-infused data center.

Dave AltavillaJune 12, 2024AMDComment

Intel Lunar Lake Set To Accelerate The Next Wave Of AI PC Revolution

Intel Lunar Lake Set To Accelerate The Next Wave Of AI PC Revolution

Lunar Lake represents a major architectural shift for Intel, manufactured on TSMC’s N3 and N6 chip fab process nodes, in an effort to leap ahead of new entrant competition from both Qualcomm and AMD. And to say both members of the media and analyst communities were waiting with baited breath for this level of detail on Intel’s new ultra-efficient processor architecture, for the age of the AI PC, would be a major understatement.

Dave AltavillaJune 4, 2024IntelComment

The AI PC Revolution Is About To Get Real With Copilot+ And Snapdragon X

The AI PC Revolution Is About To Get Real With Copilot+ And Snapdragon X

Microsoft better defined the hardware requirements and expected experiences from the modern AI-powered PC, and it goes far beyond just a Neural Processing Unit-equipped machine capable of at least 40 TOPS.

Dave AltavillaMay 21, 2024Microsoft, QualcommComment

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus Sets Efficient Performance Bar In New Benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus Sets Efficient Performance Bar In New Benchmarks

Snapdragon X Plus is based on the same Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU architectures as the company’s Snapdragon X Elite platform, though this chip sports a 10-core CPU complex versus 12 cores in the higher-end product, and a max multi-core frequency of 3.4GHz with no dual-core boost speeds like some of the X Elite products.

Dave AltavillaApril 24, 2024QualcommComment

New Highly Integrated Timing Tech To Drive Pace Of AI Data Centers

New Highly Integrated Timing Tech To Drive Pace Of AI Data Centers

An area of circuit design that perhaps hasn’t seen enough integration over the years, are clock timing solutions. However, that is going to change with the introduction of SiTime’s Chorus family of clock generators that are targeted at the quickly evolving AI data center and data center networking.

Dave AltavillaApril 24, 2024SiTimeComment

Cadence Supercharges Chip Debug And Prototyping With Palladium Z3 And Protium X3 Systems

Cadence Supercharges Chip Debug And Prototyping With Palladium Z3 And Protium X3 Systems

Cadence Design Systems, launched its latest systems for chip designers for hardware debugging and advanced prototyping, the Palladium Z3 and Protium X3. Though the systems are fundamentally different, each offers significantly increased capacity and higher performance versus its predecessors, to accelerate the development of today’s larger and more complex chips.

Marco ChiappettaApril 17, 2024CadenceComment

Rapidus Taps Long-Time Semiconductor Exec To Run New U.S. Subsidiary In Silicon Valley

Rapidus Taps Long-Time Semiconductor Exec To Run New U.S. Subsidiary In Silicon Valley

Rapidus Corporation has been making a lot of news as of late. For those unfamiliar with Rapidus, it is a fledgling Japanese semiconductor company developing bleeding-edge semiconductor manufacturing and adjacent technologies.

Marco ChiappettaApril 12, 2024RapidusComment

Intel Unveils Powerful, Efficient Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator And New Xeon 6 Processors At Vision 2024

Intel Unveils Powerful, Efficient Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator And New Xeon 6 Processors At Vision 2024

All told, Intel is claiming that its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator can deliver an average 50% improvement in inferencing performance with an approximate 40% improvement in power efficiency versus Nvidia’s H100. Intel is also claiming that it does so at a fraction of the cost.

Marco ChiappettaApril 9, 2024Comment

Nvidia And Synopsys Punctuate AI Chip Design And Acceleration Leadership

Nvidia And Synopsys Punctuate AI Chip Design And Acceleration Leadership

Last week, out in Silicon Valley, there was a meeting of the minds in artificial intelligence and AI-driven chip design.

Dave AltavillaMarch 27, 2024Synopsys, NVIDIAComment

NVIDIA Fortifies AI Dominance With Monster Blackwell GPU And Plethora Of New Tech At GTC

NVIDIA Fortifies AI Dominance With Monster Blackwell GPU And Plethora Of New Tech At GTC

NVIDIA’s GTC AI conference is currently underway in San Jose, California, and true to form, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a diverse array of new technologies during his keynote address, targeting numerous industries, from health care, to robotics, the automotive sector, future 6G networks, and virtually everything in between.

Marco ChiappettaMarch 18, 2024Comment

Tenstorrent Scores Big Design Win With Japan’s LSTC To Enable Leading-Edge 2nm AI Accelerator

Tenstorrent Scores Big Design Win With Japan’s LSTC To Enable Leading-Edge 2nm AI Accelerator

In an announcement made yesterday, the LSTC, in conjunction with Tenstorrent and Rapidus Corporation, revealed a multi-tiered partnership to license and leverage Tenstorrent’s leading RISC-V technologies and chiplet IP for LTSC’s planned 2nm AI Accelerator for the edge. In addition to the IP licensing part of the agreement, Tenstorrent will also collaborate with LSTC to help co-design the chip…

Marco ChiappettaFebruary 27, 2024TenstorrentComment

Qualcomm FastConnect 7900 Brings AI-Fueled WiFi-7 With Integrated Bluetooth And UWB

Qualcomm FastConnect 7900 Brings AI-Fueled WiFi-7 With Integrated Bluetooth And UWB

Qualcomm took the wraps off its FastConnect 7900 integrated WiFi solution, and it's not just AI-enhanced but also highly integrated with a number of industry firsts.

Dave AltavillaFebruary 26, 2024QualcommComment

OnePlus 12 Review: One Month With One Of The Best Android Flagships Yet

OnePlus 12 Review: One Month With One Of The Best Android Flagships Yet

The OnePlus 12 is as close to a no compromise Android flagship phone as it gets currently, and for hundreds less than the competition.

Dave AltavillaFebruary 16, 2024Qualcomm, QnePlusComment

Precision Timing Is Critical For Everything From AI To 5G And The IoT

Precision Timing Is Critical For Everything From AI To 5G And The IoT

In the age of cutting-edge applications like AI, design engineers and CTOs have an increasing critical need for a very precise, reliable heartbeat.

Dave AltavillaFebruary 14, 2024SITimeComment

Cadence Unveils Millennium M1 Supercomputer For Multiphysics Acceleration

Cadence Unveils Millennium M1 Supercomputer For Multiphysics Acceleration

Longtime electronic systems design and simulation leader, Cadence, unveiled its new Millennium M1 turnkey CFD supercomputer, which leverages both CPUs and GPUs and proprietary software technologies to significantly accelerate high-fidelity CFD simulations.

Marco ChiappettaFebruary 1, 2024CadenceComment

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Super Arrives For Gamers And Shakes-Up Pricing

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 Super Arrives For Gamers And Shakes-Up Pricing

If there’s one dial you can turn that will get the attention of PC gamers and content creators when it comes to graphics cards, it’s pricing. And if a major player also happens to deliver more performance and features for less, typically it’s a winning combo. Today, NVIDIA launched the first salvo in its GeForce RTX 40 Super series GPU line-up, with the new GeForce RTX 4070 Super leading the charge, along with a stronger overall value proposition.

Dave AltavillaJanuary 16, 2024Comment