NVIDIA’s Acquisition Of Run:ai Emphasizes The Importance Of Kubernetes For Generative AI

NVIDIA’s Acquisition Of Run:ai Emphasizes The Importance Of Kubernetes For Generative AI

NVIDIA HQ NVIDIA NVIDIA announced that it’s acquiring Run:ai, an Israeli startup that built a Kubernetes-based GPU orchestrator. While the price is not disclosed, there are reports that it is valued anywhere between $700 million and $1 billion. The acquisition of Run:ai highlights Kubernetes’ growing importance in the generative AI era. This makes Kubernetes the …

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The most popular GPU fails the 2024 litmus test

The most popular GPU fails the 2024 litmus test

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Nvidia’s RTX 3060 is the most popular GPU around, and it’s not even close. According to the latest Steam hardware survey, the 2021 GPU is in close to 7% of gaming PCs. That’s a huge slice of the pie. For reference, the second most popular GPU, the RTX 2060, sits …

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Intel Goes After Enterprise AI Market with Gaudi

Intel Goes After Enterprise AI Market with Gaudi

Coming just a month after NVIDIA GTC, Intel’s Vision 2024 Conference this week (April 8-9, Phoenix, Arizona) was the CPU maker’s chance to mount a response, to show how it would redefine its role in the AI processor market where NVIDIA is often in the spotlight. Intel’s response was Gaudi 3, described in the announcement …

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Are NPUs shifting the tides as the next big thing in the PC and laptop market? – Firstpost

Are NPUs shifting the tides as the next big thing in the PC and laptop market? – Firstpost

NPUs are becoming increasingly popular and have massive potential to disrupt the tech industry. Image Credit: Firstpost The demand for processing power, the exponential growth of data and increasingly complex workloads continue to drive innovation in chip production. While Central Processing Units or CPUs have long been the mainstay in computing, the rise of Artificial …

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Cloudflare Challenges AWS By Bringing Serverless AI To The Edge

Cloudflare Challenges AWS By Bringing Serverless AI To The Edge

Serverless AI Inference Cloudflare Cloudflare, the leading connectivity cloud company, recently announced the general availability of its Workers AI platform, as well as several new capabilities aimed at simplifying how developers build and deploy AI applications. This announcement represents a significant step forward in Cloudflare’s efforts to democratize AI and make it more accessible to …

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Chinese tech giant Lenovo boosts AI efforts with new servers, professional computers powered by Nvidia GPUs and software

Chinese tech giant Lenovo boosts AI efforts with new servers, professional computers powered by Nvidia GPUs and software

Lenovo Group has unveiled a series of servers and computers powered by technology from US chip designer Nvidia, in the Chinese computer giant’s latest push to bring artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to businesses and cloud service providers. Lenovo said it has added two new Nvidia graphics-processing-unit (GPU) systems to its AI server series, ThinkSystem. The …

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AI Investors Are Wooing Startups With Massive Computing Clusters

AI Investors Are Wooing Startups With Massive Computing Clusters

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shown here holding a CPU designed for AI data centers. The company’s A100 and H100 GPUs have been in even higher demand among AI companies. AFP via Getty Images Last year, entrepreneur-turned-investor Nat Friedman found himself unwittingly becoming a full-time computer chip broker for upstart AI companies. “There were weeks where …

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NVIDIA Released RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

NVIDIA Released RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

The new NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU delivers the latest artificial intelligence (AI), graphics and compute technology to compact workstations, offering increased performance compared to previous-generation RTX A2000 12GB in professional workflows, NVIDIA notes. With 16GB of memory in the RTX 2000 Ada, professionals can tap the latest technologies and tools to work faster and …

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Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

We’re seeing the chip industry’s version of the scientific aphorism: “nature hates a vacuum.” The vacuum is the short supply of – and vast demand for – AI chips, and it’s roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity, while Intel and AMD are mounting …

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