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Alchip Unveils Industry’s First Automotive ASIC Design Platform

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Kawasaki, Japan, Nov. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alchip Technologies, Ltd. today rolled out the semiconductor industry’s first Automotive ASIC platform at the Design Solutions Forum 2023.

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  • Kawasaki, Japan, Nov. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alchip Technologies, Ltd. today rolled out the semiconductor industry’s first Automotive ASIC platform at the Design Solutions Forum 2023.
  • The Automotive platform streamlines the ASIC design needs of global automotive IC module and component manufacturers, as well as automotive companies themselves.
  • The platform consists of six modules: Design for Autonomous Driving (AD)/ Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), Design for Safety, Design for Test, Design for Reliability, Automotive Chip Sign-off, and Automotive Chip Manufacturing (MFG) Service.
  • “This is a huge step forward for ADAS and autonomous driving ASIC components and the global automotive electronics industry, said Johnny Shen, CEO of Alchip.

University of Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Build Exascale Supercomputer

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

The University of Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) have announced an agreement to build two new supercomputers at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart ( HLRS ).

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  • The University of Stuttgart and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) have announced an agreement to build two new supercomputers at the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart ( HLRS ).
  • Hunter will be based on the HPE Cray EX4000 supercomputer, which is designed to deliver exascale performance to support large-scale workloads across modeling, simulation, AI, and HPDA.
  • We look forward to building on our collaboration to pave the way to exascale for HLRS using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer.
  • We are particularly excited that we have found a globally leading partner for these topics in Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who together with AMD will open up new horizons of performance for our clients.”

Global AI Chipsets Market Report 2023, Featuring Company Profiles for Xilinx, Graphcore, Huawei Technologies, IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Micron Technology and Samsung Semiconductor

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Monday, December 18, 2023

The AI Chipsets market is expanding as a result of the increased attention being paid to creating AI systems that are aware of humans.

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  • The AI Chipsets market is expanding as a result of the increased attention being paid to creating AI systems that are aware of humans.
  • The absence of norms and regulations as well as a skilled labor supply are, however, limiting the AI Chipsets market expansion.
  • Further, the rising usage of analytical computations and complex problem-solving using quantum computing technology is also increasing the AI Chipsets market.
  • This is helping to improve the performance and efficiency of AI chipsets, which is further driving AI Chipsets industry growth.

AMD Brings New AI and Compute Capabilities to Microsoft Customers

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured how AMD products, including the upcoming AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerator, AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Ryzen™ CPUs with AI engines, are enabling new services and compute capabilities across cloud and generative AI, Confidential Computing, Cloud Computing and smarter, more intelligent PCs.

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  • — 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors are also now being used to run a new generation of general purpose, memory-intensive and compute-optimized VMs —
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured how AMD products, including the upcoming AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerator, AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Ryzen™ CPUs with AI engines, are enabling new services and compute capabilities across cloud and generative AI, Confidential Computing , Cloud Computing and smarter, more intelligent PCs.
  • “AMD is fostering AI everywhere – from the cloud, to the enterprise and end point devices – all powered by our CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and AI engines,” said Vamsi Boppana, Senior Vice President, AI, AMD.
  • AMD and Microsoft have already jointly enabled Windows Studio Effects on Ryzen AI PCs, and AMD continues to work with software developers, to bring expanding AI workloads and generative AI experiences to consumers.
  • Tune into the AMD Advancing AI event on December 6 at 10am PT to hear more about the AMD portfolio of AI products.

Latest Top500 List Highlights Several World's Fastest and Most Efficient Supercomputers Powered by AMD

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ accelerators continue to be the solutions of choice for many of the most innovative, energy efficient and fastest supercomputers in the world.

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  • AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Instinct™ accelerators continue to be the solutions of choice for many of the most innovative, energy efficient and fastest supercomputers in the world.
  • AMD now powers 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list representing a 39% year-over-year increase.
  • Additionally, AMD powers eight of the top ten most energy efficient supercomputers in the world based on the latest Green500 list .
  • Visit the AMD booth #1117 at Supercomputing 2023 to learn more about AMD solutions for HPC and speak with AMD experts.

Armada Raises More Than $55M to Bridge the Digital Divide

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Monday, December 11, 2023

This funding will propel Armada forward in its mission to bridge the global digital divide, empowering businesses and communities to leverage all of their data, regardless of where it’s generated.

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  • This funding will propel Armada forward in its mission to bridge the global digital divide, empowering businesses and communities to leverage all of their data, regardless of where it’s generated.
  • Armada is dedicated to unlocking the potential of generative AI, edge computing and predictive models on a global scale.
  • Armada EdgeAI encompasses a spectrum of generative AI, multimodal AI and real-time machine learning capabilities, tailored for designing industry-specific applications.
  • “Armada’s edge computing platform will fundamentally reshape entire industries.”
    To learn more about Armada or if interested in joining the team, please visit www.armada.ai .

Tech Alert: BrainChip’s ‘This is Our Mission’ Podcast Discusses Trends in Edge AI with Arm Fellow Ian Bratt

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Hosted by BrainChip CMO Nandan Nayampally, the podcast will be available December 7, 2023, at 3 p.m. PST on BrainChip’s website and across popular podcast platforms.

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  • Hosted by BrainChip CMO Nandan Nayampally, the podcast will be available December 7, 2023, at 3 p.m. PST on BrainChip’s website and across popular podcast platforms.
  • Bratt is an experienced architect with enterprise and mobile experience who has worked on CPUs, GPUs, memory systems, on-chip interconnects, and coherency protocols.
  • Bratt joins the BrainChip podcast to discuss the latest trending topics in the industry, especially those relating to Edge AI.
  • The “This is Our Mission” podcast provides AI industry insight to listeners including users, developers, analysts, technical and financial press, and investors.

Astera Labs Strengthens Leadership Team to Usher in Next Phase of Growth

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Astera Labs , the global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure, announced new leadership appointments to drive corporate growth, strategic development, and product innovation.

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  • Astera Labs , the global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure, announced new leadership appointments to drive corporate growth, strategic development, and product innovation.
  • “Astera Labs is scaling rapidly, and I am delighted to welcome Elli, Chris, and Kelvin to our team during this pivotal time as we seek to expand our leadership in purpose-built connectivity solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure,” said Sanjay Gajendra, COO and Co-Founder of Astera Labs.
  • She spent over a decade in various in-house counsel leadership roles at a variety of semiconductor companies, including Marvell, Inphi (acquired by Marvell), and Broadcom.
  • “The pace and scope of Astera Labs’ ascension within the semiconductor industry is impressive and I’m excited to join the company during this period of rapid expansion,” said Khoo.

Untether AI Joins UCIe Consortium to Drive Chiplet Technology and Energy-Centric AI Acceleration

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

As the leader in energy-centric AI acceleration, Untether AI sees heterogeneous compute with die-to-die interconnect as the next logical step for energy-centric compute architectures.

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  • As the leader in energy-centric AI acceleration, Untether AI sees heterogeneous compute with die-to-die interconnect as the next logical step for energy-centric compute architectures.
  • "We are pleased to join the UCIe Consortium to advance the future of AI acceleration," said Arun Iyengar, CEO, Untether AI.
  • “By leveraging chiplet technology and UCIe's universal standards, Untether AI will deliver energy efficient AI acceleration chiplets to the market.
  • “Untether AI’s contribution will help showcase the benefits of UCIe, a low-power, high-speed, and open industry standard chiplet interface."

AWS and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Collaboration to Offer New Supercomputing Infrastructure, Software, and Services for Generative AI

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The NVIDIA GH200 NVL32 multi-node platform connects 32 Grace Hopper Superchips with NVIDIA NVLink and NVSwitch technologies into one instance.

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  • The NVIDIA GH200 NVL32 multi-node platform connects 32 Grace Hopper Superchips with NVIDIA NVLink and NVSwitch technologies into one instance.
  • • NVIDIA and AWS will collaborate to host NVIDIA DGX Cloud , NVIDIA’s AI-training-as-a-service, on AWS.
  • DGX Cloud on AWS will accelerate training of cutting-edge generative AI and large language models that can reach beyond 1 trillion parameters.
  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud is an AI supercomputing service that gives enterprises fast access to multi-node supercomputing for training the most complex LLM and generative AI models, with integrated NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and direct access to NVIDIA AI experts.