Nvidia’s investment in Synopsys continues the company’s march towards vertical integration — or at least vertical influence Nvidia has made no secret of its ambitions to extend its reach far …
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Amazon is making waves with Trainium3, but already attention is moving to Trainium4 In sum – What we know: Amazon Web Services used its re:Invent 2025 conference to unveil a …
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GPU-as-a-Service eliminates the need to own the hardware, but what are the trade-offs? The race to build and deploy AI has created an infrastructure bottleneck that’s reshaping how organizations think …
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In sum – what to know: Meta explores a major TPU shift – Talks with Google could see Meta rent TPUs in 2026, signaling a meaningful move to diversify beyond …
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In sum – what to know: Trainium3 marks a major generational jump – AWS’ new 3nm accelerator delivers over 4x gains in compute, and is designed to scale from 144-chip …
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AI compute isn’t one thing. It’s two. Under the umbrella of “AI workloads,” training and inference represent distinct computational worlds with different goals, hardware profiles, and economics. They often get …
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For decades, compute has scaled faster than memory. Processors can execute more operations every year, but the speed at which data moves in and out of memory has lagged behind. …
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The semiconductor industry is changing quickly, especially as it relates to AI. As AI workloads grow ever more demanding, old monolithic chips are giving way to new chiplet-based designs. But …
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Artificial intelligence has reshaped the semiconductor industry, driving an endless chase for better performance and efficiency. But as transistor scaling slows and Moore’s Law fades, the gains from smaller nodes …
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The memory wall is more of an issue than ever in AI workloads. How will it be fixed? As AI workloads scale, compute performance is increasing far faster than memory …