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Chip War: Banned NVIDIA GPUs Trickle into China, TSMC Shares Jump on AI – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Chip War: Banned NVIDIA GPUs Trickle into China, TSMC Shares Jump on AI – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

The advanced chips sector and its geopolitical significance is in the news this week as a Reuters story reports that “Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over the past year purchased small batches of NVIDIA semiconductors,” including the coveted H100 GPU accelerator, banned from export to the Chinese market. “Small …

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Analog Devices Deploys SambaNova for GenAI – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Analog Devices Deploys SambaNova for GenAI – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

January 10, 2024—Wilmington, MA and Palo Alto, CA — Semiconduct company Analog Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADI) and AI platform developer SambaNova Systems announced that ADI is deploying SambaNova Suite for its global AI strategy, “making AI pervasive enterprise-wide,” ADI said. “ADI is synonymous with innovation, and we have a legacy of technology leadership in bridging …

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Call for Papers: Ken Kennedy Institute Energy HPC Conference, Jan. 15 Deadline – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Call for Papers: Ken Kennedy Institute Energy HPC Conference, Jan. 15 Deadline – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

The 17th Annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, to be held March 5-7, 2024, has issued an invitation to submit an abstract for presentation. The deadline is Monday, January 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM CT. ​Abstract submission information can be found here. Conference organizers invite prospective speakers …

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Justin Hotard Leaves HPE for Intel, Named EVP/GM of Data Center and AI Group – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Justin Hotard Leaves HPE for Intel, Named EVP/GM of Data Center and AI Group – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

Hotard (pictured here) was EVP/GMof High-Performance Computing, AI and Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a position that included directing the company’s central applied research group, Hewlett Packard Labs. Prior to joining HPE in 2015, Hotard served as president of NCR Small Business and held corporate development and operating positions at Symbol Technologies and Motorola …

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Lightmatter Announces $155M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Lightmatter Announces 5M Funding Round, Expands Photonic Chip Deployments – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

December 19, 2023, BOSTON — Photonics company Lightmatter announced it has raised a $155M Series C-2 led by GV (Google Ventures) and Viking Global Investors, with participation from others. With this round, Lightmatter has raised over $420 million to date and is now valued at over $1.2B. This new financing allows the company to expedite growth …

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Gelsinger on Intel’s Mojo, its Crowded Roadmap, a Foundry-centric Arm Strategy, and Earning Back Trust – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Gelsinger on Intel’s Mojo, its Crowded Roadmap, a Foundry-centric Arm Strategy, and Earning Back Trust – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

At an Intel pre-launch media event earlier this month in Hillsboro, OR, for the new Emerald Rapids data center chip, CEO Pat Gelsinger made a surprise appearance (pictured here) on stage to share his thoughts on the state of Intel. In rapid fire, he covered a range of issues while exuding his characteristic upbeat energy …

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GigaIO’s SuperNODE to Power TensorWave Deployment with AMD MI300X – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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GigaIO’s SuperNODE to Power TensorWave Deployment with AMD MI300X – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

San Jose, California, December 6, 2023 – GigaIO, provider of open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, has announced what the company said is the largest order yet for its SuperNODE utilizing tens of thousands of the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators. GigaIO’s infrastructure will form the backbone of a bare-metal specialized AI cloud code-named …

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Nexusflow Unveils Open-source Generative AI Model – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

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Nexusflow Unveils Open-source Generative AI Model – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Dec. 5,  2023 – Nexusflow, a generative AI company targeting the cybersecurity industry, today announced the release of NexusRaven-V2, a 13-billion parameter open-source genAI model that delivers function calling capability—meaning it can understand human instructions and translate the instructions into function/API calls to use software tools. The function calling capability lies at …

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