NVIDIA previews AI accelerator

 In a talk at this week’s Hot Chips event at Stanford University, Bill Dally, NVIDIA’s chief scientist and senior vice president of research previewed a deep neural network (DNN) accelerator chip designed for efficient execution of natural language processing tasks.The 5nm prototype achieves 95.6 TOPS/W in benchmarking and 1711 inferences/s/W with only 0.7% accuracy loss on BERT, demonstrating a practical accelerator design for energy-efficient...

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Google unveils its 5th gen TPU

Google unveiled its 5th generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU v5e), promising up to 2x higher training performance per dollar and up to 2.5x inference performance per dollar for LLMs and gen AI models compared to Cloud TPU v4.TPU v5e pods can be interconnected with up to 256 chips, providing aggregate bandwidth of more than 400 Tb/s and 100 petaOps of INT8 performance.TPU v5e also supports eight different VM configurations, ranging from one chip...

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Intel previews 5th Gen Xeons

At this week’s Hot Chips event at Stanford University, Intel presented two sessions revealing technical specifications and features of the Xeon platform architecture and offerings coming in 2024, along with additional information on its forthcoming 5th Gen Intel Xeon® processors launching later this year. A separate session outlined new capabilities related to its Intel Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series FPGAs.
 The new Intel Xeon platform utilizes modular...

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Google Cloud and Nvidia Expand Alliance for AI

Google Cloud and NVIDIA are extending their collaboration focuses on AI infrastructure and software.  Highlights:Google Cloud announced general availability next month of A3 VMs powered by NVIDIA’s H100 GPU for the most demanding gen AI and large language model (LLM) workloads. Google Cloud said theA3 VMs powered by the new H100s will achieve three times better training performance over the prior-generation A2. NVIDIA H100 GPUs to power...

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GlobalFoundries unveils its most advanced RF solution

GlobalFoundries (GF) announced its new 9SW RFSOI technology, its most advanced RF solution for use in front-end modules (FEMs) for today's 5G operating frequencies, as well as future 5G mobile and wireless communication applications. The advanced 9SW technology will be manufactured on GF’s 300mm production line at its fabrication site in Singapore.The 9SW technology improves on the company’s previous 8SW technology with superior switching, low-noise...

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IONOS interconnects data centers with Infinera’s GX G30

IONOS, the largest web hosting company in Europe, deployed Infinera’s GX Series Compact Modular Platform to expand its network and interconnect data centers across Europe.IONOS offers small- and medium-sized businesses web hosting and cloud services, managing more than 6 million customers and hosting over 22 million domains in its own regional data centers in Europe and in the U.S. With the Infinera GX G30 compact modular solution enables IONOS...

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Altafiber raises $600M for fiber rollouts

Cincinnati Bell , which is now doing business as “altafiber” in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, announced $600 million in new funding to support the continued construction of fiber networks throughout incumbent and expansion markets. The equity raise was solely supported by existing investors, funds managed by Macquarie Asset Management, Ares Management, and supporting co-investors.In addition to continuing to upgrade its current footprint, these new...

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Dell'Oro: Open RAN revenues declined in 2Q2023

Both Open RAN and Virtualized RAN (vRAN) revenues declined in 2Q23, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. This marks the first quarter of year-over-year (YoY) contractions since Dell’Oro began tracking these next generation architectures back in 2019. “After a couple of years where Open RAN revenues exceeded expectations and advanced at an accelerated pace, the current slowdown doesn't come as a surprise,” said Stefan Pongratz, Vice President with the Dell’Oro Group. “Projections for 2023 were more tempered, considering that it would...

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