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12 Nov 23

Google, Intel, Nvidia Battle in Generative AI Training

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The leading public apples-to-apples test for computer systems’ ability to train machine learning neural networks has fully entered the generative AI era. Earlier this year, MLPerf added a test for training large language models (LLM), GPT-3 in particular. This month it adds Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generator. Computers powered by…

18 Sep 23

Nvidia Still on Top in Machine Learning; Intel Chasing

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Large language models like Llama2 and ChatGPT are where much of the action is in AI. But how well do today’s datacenter-class computers execute them? Pretty well, according to the latest set of benchmark results for machine learning, with the best able to summarize more than 100 articles in a…

06 Sep 23

Intel’s Open Source Strategy

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, a podcast from IEEE spectrum. I’m your host Stephen Cass, a senior editor at Spectrum, and before Before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum‘s most important beats, including…

29 Jun 23

Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

For the first time, a large language model—a key driver of recent AI hype and hope—has been added to MLPerf, a set of neural-network training benchmarks that have previously been called the Olympics of machine learning. Computers built around Nvidia’s H100 GPU and Intel’s Habana Gaudi2 chips were the first…

09 Jun 23

Intel Is All-In on Back-Side Power Delivery

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

There’s a lot of risk in deploying new technology for cutting edge computer chips. So Intel executives were understandably cautious in executing a plan that next year simultaneously introduces both a new transistor—RibbonFET—and a new way of powering it—PowerVia.To take some of the risk out of this high-wire act, the…

06 Mar 23

Detection Stays One Step Ahead of Deepfakes—for Now

Computer & Information Technology

In March 2022, a video appeared online that seemed to show Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asking his troops to lay down their arms in the face of Russia’s invasion. The video—created with the help of artificial intelligence—was poor in quality and the ruse was quickly debunked, but as synthetic content…

06 Mar 23

Intel and SK Hynix Show Two Paths for Flash Memory’s Future

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

As the demand for data storage explodes, semiconductor manufacturers are racing to increase the density of memory chips while reducing the cost per bit. Intel and SK Hynix presented two important advances hinting at cheaper solid-state memory drives with higher capacity at the 70th IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference…

31 Dec 22

Future Transistors, Plastic Processors, and 3D Chips

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

“Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.” With the phenomenal success of the transistor’s first 75 years, it feels like maybe we should both know and repeat. That seems to have been the reaction you (dear devoted IEEE Spectrum reader) took with your semiconductor article…

05 Dec 22

Intel’s Take on the Next Wave of Moore’s Law

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

The next wave of Moore’s Law will rely on a developing concept called system technology co-optimization, said Ann B. Kelleher, general manager of technology development at Intel in an interview with IEEE Spectrum ahead of her plenary talk at the 2022 IEEE Electron Device Meeting (IEDM).“Moore’s Law is about increasing…