Dylan Martin

Norway, South Portland

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9 AMD Acquisitions Fueling Its AI Rivalry With Nvidia

1 day ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

9 AMD Acquisitions Fueling Its AI Rivalry With Nvidia The chip designer’s acquisitions of software firms, an AI lab, a silicon photonics startup, a data center infrastructure provider and the team behind an AI chip startup have all served to improve and build out AMD’s AI capabilities and ramp up its competition against Nvidia.
Exclusive: AMD Acquires Team Behind AI Chip Startup Untether AI

2 days ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

Exclusive: AMD Acquires Team Behind AI Chip Startup Untether AI The chip designer confirms to CRN that it has acquired the employees of Untether AI, a developer of AI inference chips marketed as faster and more energy-efficient than rival products for edge environments and data centers.
Analysis: Nvidia Vs. Intel Vs. AMD Q1 Earnings Face-Off

2 days ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

Analysis: Nvidia Vs. Intel Vs. AMD Q1 Earnings Face-Off Nvidia finished the first quarter of its current fiscal year with more than double the revenue of what Intel and AMD earned combined for roughly similar periods, but the latter two companies ended up having substantially different quarters.
AMD’s Acquisition Spree To Fight Nvidia Continues With Brium Buy

3 days ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

AMD’s Acquisition Spree To Fight Nvidia Continues With Brium Buy Anush Elangovan, corporate vice president of software development at AMD, says Brium’s advanced software capabilities will ‘strengthen our ability to deliver highly optimized AI solutions,’ including its Instinct GPUs that have been key to its competitive fight with Nvidia.
Broadcom: Tomahawk 6 switch is a ‘turning point’ for AI data centers

4 days ago | crnasia.com | Dylan Martin

Designed to support more than 1 million accelerator chips in AI data centers, the Tomahawk 6 Ethernet switch series is being called a ‘turning point in AI infrastructure design’ by Broadcom, which says deployments with more than 100,000 accelerator chips are being planned.
Broadcom: Tomahawk 6 Switch Is A ‘Turning Point’ For AI Data Centers

4 days ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

Designed to support more than 1 million accelerator chips in AI data centers, the Tomahawk 6 Ethernet switch series is being called a ‘turning point in AI infrastructure design’ by Broadcom, which says deployments with more than 100,000 accelerator chips are being planned.
Intel Spin-Off: Our InfiniBand Alternative For AI Data Centers Has A ‘Devastatingly Good’ Edge

4 days ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

Intel Spin-Off: Our InfiniBand Alternative For AI Data Centers Has A ‘Devastatingly Good’ Edge Cornelis Networks CEO Lisa Spelman tells CRN that the channel-driven vendor’s new 400-Gbps CN5000 family of scale-out networking solutions offers the ‘best performance with devastatingly good price-performance,’ and it has bigger plans for the future.
HP Bets On Chip Startup Hailo For Edge AI Accelerator M.2 Card

5 days ago | crn.com | Dylan Martin

HP Bets On Chip Startup Hailo For Edge AI Accelerator M.2 Card Set to launch in August, the HP AI Accelerator M.2 Card is based on the Hailo-10H chips and ‘integrates seamlessly’ with HP point-of-sale devices such as the HP Engage One Pro as well as HP workstations and commercial PCs. HP Inc. is betting on an AI chip from Israeli startup Hailo for a new accelerator M.2 card that is meant to power AI workloads in low-power devices such as point-of-sale systems.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang decries US export curbs but says he trusts Trump

1 week ago | channelweb.co.uk | Dylan Martin

‘President Trump wants America to win’ At the beginning of his remarks, Huang expanded on his comments from last week where he reportedly called US export controls on AI chips to China a “failure,” calling the country “one of the world’s largest AI markets and a springboard to global success, with half of the world’s AI researchers based there.” “The platform that wins China is positioned to lead globally today. “However, the $50bn China market is effectively closed to us,” he said.
AMD acquires silicon photonics startup Enosemi in AI Systems push

1 week ago | crnasia.com | Dylan Martin

In another move to ramp up competition against Nvidia, AMD says it has acquired Enosemi to develop photonics and co-packaged optics solutions that can help the chip designer enable ‘faster, more efficient data movement’ that is required by ever-growing AI models.