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January 25, 2024
ChatGPT's Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution
THE COST OF making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for the graphics chips known as GPUs needed for large-scale AI training has driven prices of the crucial components through the roof. The race to compete in AI also means that data centers are now consuming worrying amounts of energy. The idea that a broader rethink of computing is needed may be gaining momentum as the industry runs into the difficulty of maintaining Moore’s law, the long-standing prediction that the density of components on chips continues shrinking. “Even if Moore's law wasn't slowing down, you still have a massive problem, because the model sizes that OpenAI and others have been releasing are growing way faster than chip capacity,” says Peter McMahon, a professor at Cornell University who works on novel ways of computing. In other words, we might well need to exploit new ways of computing to keep the AI hype train on track.
January 25, 2024
ChatGPT's Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution
January 25, 2024
ChatGPT's Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution
THE COST OF making further progress in artificial intelligence is becoming as startling as a hallucination by ChatGPT. Demand for the graphics chips known as GPUs needed for large-scale AI training has driven prices of the crucial components through the roof. The race to compete in AI also means that data centers are now consuming worrying amounts of energy. The idea that a broader rethink of computing is needed may be gaining momentum as the industry runs into the difficulty of maintaining Moore’s law, the long-standing prediction that the density of components on chips continues shrinking. “Even if Moore's law wasn't slowing down, you still have a massive problem, because the model sizes that OpenAI and others have been releasing are growing way faster than chip capacity,” says Peter McMahon, a professor at Cornell University who works on novel ways of computing. In other words, we might well need to exploit new ways of computing to keep the AI hype train on track.
January 24, 2024
Altman Seeks to Raise Billions for Network of AI Chip Factories
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors, according to several people with knowledge of the plans. Altman has had conversations with several large potential investors in the hopes of raising the vast sums needed for chip fabrication plants, or fabs, as they’re known colloquially, said the people, who requested anonymity because the conversations are private.
January 24, 2024
Altman Seeks to Raise Billions for Network of AI Chip Factories
January 24, 2024
Altman Seeks to Raise Billions for Network of AI Chip Factories
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who has been working to raise billions of dollars from global investors for a chip venture, aims to use the funds to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors, according to several people with knowledge of the plans. Altman has had conversations with several large potential investors in the hopes of raising the vast sums needed for chip fabrication plants, or fabs, as they’re known colloquially, said the people, who requested anonymity because the conversations are private.
January 24, 2024
T-Mobile selects Nokia to improve scalability and efficiency for 5G High Speed Internet service
Nokia has announced its collaboration with T-Mobile to launch a dedicated gateway solution that supports LTE, 5G NSA, and 5G SA technologies for the service provider’s nationwide, fixed-wireless High-Speed Internet (HSI) traffic. Nokia will deploy its Multi-Access Gateway (MAG) solution which will allow T-Mobile to improve service scalability, and time to market. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a key technology to rapidly expand coverage of high-speed broadband services to provide universal or ubiquitous broadband. FWA will support residential broadband applications such as high-definition video streaming that consumes significantly more bandwidth than mobile applications.
January 24, 2024
T-Mobile selects Nokia to improve scalability and efficiency for 5G High Speed Internet service
January 24, 2024
T-Mobile selects Nokia to improve scalability and efficiency for 5G High Speed Internet service
Nokia has announced its collaboration with T-Mobile to launch a dedicated gateway solution that supports LTE, 5G NSA, and 5G SA technologies for the service provider’s nationwide, fixed-wireless High-Speed Internet (HSI) traffic. Nokia will deploy its Multi-Access Gateway (MAG) solution which will allow T-Mobile to improve service scalability, and time to market. Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a key technology to rapidly expand coverage of high-speed broadband services to provide universal or ubiquitous broadband. FWA will support residential broadband applications such as high-definition video streaming that consumes significantly more bandwidth than mobile applications.
January 19, 2024
Google to invest $1 billion in UK data centre
Google will invest $1 billion on building a data centre just outside of London, the U.S. technology giant said on Thursday, in its latest investment in Britain as it meets growing demand for internet services in the region. "This new data centre will help meet growing demand for our AI and cloud services and bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK while creating construction and technical jobs," Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in the statement.
January 19, 2024
Google to invest $1 billion in UK data centre
January 19, 2024
Google to invest $1 billion in UK data centre
Google will invest $1 billion on building a data centre just outside of London, the U.S. technology giant said on Thursday, in its latest investment in Britain as it meets growing demand for internet services in the region. "This new data centre will help meet growing demand for our AI and cloud services and bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK while creating construction and technical jobs," Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in the statement.
January 19, 2024
Meta ramps up AI efforts by building chip arsenal, consolidating teams
Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the company was bringing its AI research team "closer together" with a more business-focused generative AI team launched last year, doubling down on a push to get the technology into products. The social media giant was building out its infrastructure to accommodate the push and planned to have about 350,000 H100 GPUs (graphics processing units) from chip designer Nvidia by the end of the year, Zuckerberg said in posts on Meta's Instagram and Threads platforms. In combination with equivalent chips from other suppliers, Meta will have about 600,000 total GPUs by the end of the year, he said. That amount would make Meta's system, once finished, among the largest in the technology industry.
January 19, 2024
Meta ramps up AI efforts by building chip arsenal, consolidating teams
January 19, 2024
Meta ramps up AI efforts by building chip arsenal, consolidating teams
Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the company was bringing its AI research team "closer together" with a more business-focused generative AI team launched last year, doubling down on a push to get the technology into products. The social media giant was building out its infrastructure to accommodate the push and planned to have about 350,000 H100 GPUs (graphics processing units) from chip designer Nvidia by the end of the year, Zuckerberg said in posts on Meta's Instagram and Threads platforms. In combination with equivalent chips from other suppliers, Meta will have about 600,000 total GPUs by the end of the year, he said. That amount would make Meta's system, once finished, among the largest in the technology industry.
January 19, 2024
Intels nya Core Ultra-processorer möjliggör AI-datorer
Intel har lanserat nya Core Ultra-processorer för nästa generations AI-laptops. Enligt Intel är Core Ultra det största som hänt på 40 år i utvecklingen av processorer, och kommer bland annat att göra datorer snabbare och förlänga livstiden på batterier. Tidigare processorer har oftast bestått av en centralprocessor (CPU) och en grafikprocessor. Dessa två finns kvar i Ultra Core men med ett tillägg, nämligen neural processing unit (NPU) som är optimerad för AI.
January 19, 2024
Intels nya Core Ultra-processorer möjliggör AI-datorer
January 19, 2024
Intels nya Core Ultra-processorer möjliggör AI-datorer
Intel har lanserat nya Core Ultra-processorer för nästa generations AI-laptops. Enligt Intel är Core Ultra det största som hänt på 40 år i utvecklingen av processorer, och kommer bland annat att göra datorer snabbare och förlänga livstiden på batterier. Tidigare processorer har oftast bestått av en centralprocessor (CPU) och en grafikprocessor. Dessa två finns kvar i Ultra Core men med ett tillägg, nämligen neural processing unit (NPU) som är optimerad för AI.
