Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

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Workflow for inverse design using deep learning to predict S-parameters and radiation in structures.
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Generated Chip Designs Work in Mysterious Ways: Researchers used deep learning and an evolutionary algorithm to design chips in minutes

Designing integrated circuits typically requires years of human expertise. Recent work set AI to the task with surprising results.
GB10 Superchip architecture with Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU.
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AI Supercomputer on Your Desk: Nvidia introduced Project Digits, a $3,000 home supercomputer for mid-sized AI models

Nvidia’s new desktop computer is built specifically to run large AI models.
Pile of discarded green circuit boards from electronic devices.
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Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem

Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Illustration of a person holding a box with network nodes emerging from it.
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AI Power Couple Recommits: Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with $4 billion investment

Amazon and Anthropic expanded their partnership, potentially strengthening Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure and lengthening the high-flying startup’s runway.
Close-up of a Chinese-made server chip labeled with the logo and text ‘710’ mounted on a motherboard.
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Further Chip Restrictions on China: TSMC stops advanced chip production for China on U.S. orders

The largest manufacturer of AI chips told its Chinese customers it would stop fabricating their most advanced designs, further limiting China’s access to AI hardware.
Comparison of Minecraft terrain with and without player modifications.
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No Game Engine Required: AI creates an interactive Minecraft-like world in real time

A real-time video generator lets you explore an open-ended, interactive virtual world — a video game without a game engine.
24 Hours on an Old Consumer GPU: Optimizing LLMs for low-resource hardware
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24 Hours on an Old Consumer GPU: Optimizing LLMs for low-resource hardware

BERT, a large language model released in 2018 and built upon the then-new transformer architecture, marked a paradigm shift in AI.
Giant golden and black AI chip
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Nvidia Revs AI Engine: All about Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture and B200 GPU

Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.
Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.
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Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.

Huawei is emerging as an important supplier of AI chips. Amid a U.S. ban on exports of advanced chips to China, demand for Huawei’s AI chips is so intense that the company is limiting production of the chip that powers one of its most popular smartphones so it can serve the AI market.
GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.
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GPU Data Centers Strain Grid Power: AI's electricity demands spur an expansion of power sources.

The AI boom is taxing power grids and pushing builders of data centers to rethink their sources of electricity.
More Cloud GPUs on the Way: Voltage Park offers Nvidia GPUs at $1.89/hour for startups and researchers
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More Cloud GPUs on the Way: Voltage Park offers Nvidia GPUs at $1.89/hour for startups and researchers

A new cloud-computing company promises to provide scarce AI processing power to startups and researchers. Voltage Park, a nonprofit north of Silicon Valley, will offer processing power from 24,000 top-of-the-line Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs)...
AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.
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AI Chip Challenger Gains Traction: Nvidia's competitor Cerebras secured a contract with a major tech conglomerate.

An upstart supplier of AI chips secured a major customer. Cerebras, which competes with Nvidia in hardware for training large models, signed a $100 million contract with Abu Dhabi tech conglomerate G42. The deal is the first part of a multi-stage plan to build a network of supercomputers.
Series of NVIDIA chips disappearing one by one
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GPU Shortage Intensifies: All about Nvidia's GPU shortage

Nvidia’s top-of-the-line chips are in high demand and short supply. There aren’t enough H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) to meet the crush of demand brought on by the vogue for generative AI, VentureBeat reported.
A person's hand grabbing a handful of AI chips arranged on a table
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Restricted Chips Slip Through: Loopholes help Chinese companies get U.S. chips.

Chinese companies have found loopholes to sidestep United States limits on AI chips. Facing severe limits on U.S. exports of high-performance chips, Chinese AI firms are purchasing them through subsidiaries and using them through cloud services, the Financial Times reported.
Person with a sad face in front of an abandoned Chip's Candies factory
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No More GPUs: Confronting the Fear of a Global Chip Shortage

Advanced AI requires advanced hardware. What if the global supply of high-end AI chips dries up? Most of the world’s advanced AI processors are manufactured in Taiwan, where tension with mainland China is rising.
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