Tobias Mann

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Tobias Mann

Computex When Nvidia first teased its Arm-based Grace CPU back in 2021, many saw it as a threat to Intel and AMD. Four years later, the Arm-based silicon is at the heart of the GPU giant's most powerful AI systems, but it has not yet replaced x86 entirely. At Computex on Thursday, Intel revealed three new Xeon 6 processors, including one that will serve as the host CPU in Nvidia's DGX B300 platform announced at GTC back in March.

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Tobias Mann

Computex AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series Threadripper workstation CPUs teased at Computex this week. Compared to previous Threadrippers (TR), the 9000 series appears to be a fairly sedate update with most of the gains coming from process improvements and the move to AMD's Zen 5 microarchitecture.

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Tobias Mann

Computex When it comes to AI accelerators, Intel isn't very competitive, and its newly announced Battlemage workstation cards don't do much to change that. But at least they're cheap. Really cheap. For the purposes of AI, we can mostly ignore the $299 Intel Arc B50, which is positioned as a more traditional workstation GPU for graphics-intensive workloads. But the x86 giant is pushing the more performant (and power-hungry) B60 for both graphics and AI inference applications.

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Tobias Mann

Computex Nvidia has opened the NVLink interconnect tech used to stitch its rack-scale compute platforms together to the broader ecosystem with the introduction of NVLink Fusion at Computex this week. If you're not familiar, Nvidia's NVLink is a high-speed interconnect which enables multiple GPUs in a system or rack to behave like a single accelerator with shared compute and memory resources.

3 weeks ago | theregister.com | Tobias Mann

Comment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers. Those figures, along with new commitments from OpenAI and yet unnamed hyperscale customers, were no doubt intended to instill confidence in the rent-a-GPU outfit's long-term growth prospects.