Amazon has already shifted about 80% of Alexa processing onto Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances, which use the new AWS Inferentia chips. Compared to the G4 instances, which used traditional GPUs, the Inf1 instances push throughput up by 30% and costs down by 45%. Amazon reckons that they’re the…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will ditch Nvidia chips responsible for the processing of Alexa queries and will instead use its own in-house silicon, the company confirmed on Friday. The cloud giant will also be shifting data processing for its cloud-based facial recognition system, ‘Rekognition’, over to these in-house chips, according to Reuters. SEE MORE Amazon opens up Alexa chatbot tools to devel

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia Corp. When users of devices such as Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers ask the voice assistant a question, the query is sent to one of Amazon’s d

Hermann Hauser, vice-chair of the European Innovation Council’s advisory board. Photo: Wikipedia Commons. Brussels should set up a €100 billion technology sovereignty fund to compete better in a world dominated by giant American and Chinese tech companies, according to one of Europe’s best-known tech investors. “Unless we do this, we will become even more dependent on two countries than before,”

Tim Danton 5 days 3 hours ago Price when reviewed 1599 When I bought the Surface Book 2 in 2017, I made a mistake: I chose the version with 256GB of storage rather than 512GB. As I use this machine as my main device for all things work-related – and that includes an awful lot of high-resolution photos – I’ve been fighting an ongoing battle against storage

Best Buy’s latest sale tries to inject some variety into the many early Black Friday deals we’ve been seeing since the end of last month. The company appears to be celebrating Single’s Day with its one-day-only “treat yourself” sale, which discounts a number of video games, smart home devices, wearables and more. Whether you decide to pick something up for yourself or someone on your list, there a

Nvidia’s plan to buy British chip powerhouse Arm Ltd. for a cool $40 billion is just the latest move in the company’s evolution from a gaming chip maker to a game changer in enterprise data centers.Nvidia’s goal is to take its high-powered processor technology and, through innovation, high-profile acquisitions (Mellanox, Cumulus and Arm) and strategic alliances (VMware, Check Point and Red Hat), p

The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is upscaling many standard types of IT workload as well as powering new services driven by advanced algorithmic data processing and machine learning techniques. Developers of AI systems, however, have been somewhat constrained by the limitations of standard microprocessors. Pioneering AI applications needed supercomputer-class compute resources in or

Getty Images/Ringer illustration The release of the Playstation 5 and the Xbox Series X/S this week brings with it a familiar experience for gamers. But as the technological leaps become less pronounced in new systems and the industry shifts toward streaming, could we be approaching a future in which hardware no longer reigns supreme? This week marks the start of the ninth console genera

INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Scale Computing introduces new HC3 infrastructure appliances that deliver the extra processing power of Nvidia GPUs.

New investment will bring Graphcore’s market valuation to more than $2 billion Bristol-based startup Graphcore, which specialises in creating chips for artificial intelligence (AI), is close to raising around $200 million in a new funding round. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg reported last week that the firm is currently in talks with investors to help raise ne

If you’ve spent any time around the PC gaming community in the last thirty years, then you’re almost certainly familiar with Nvidia’s Geforce graphics cards. What you may not now, however, is that the company is also strongly focused on solving next-generation computing challenges - and has been since it was first founded. In this episode, we take a look at Nvidia’s history, its business model and

AWS has launched its latest GPU-equipped instances aimed at machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Called P4d, the new instances come ten years the first set of GPU instances were launched. They feature Intel Cascade Lake processors and eight of Nvidia’s A100 Tensor Core GPUs. These connect via NVLink with support for Nvidia GPUDirect and offer 2.5 PetaFLOPS of floating-p

Plus: Faster on-demand supercomputing. P4d VMs with Nvidia A100 and GPUDirect RDMA AWS will deliver a new public container registry “within weeks” in response to Docker’s introduction of pull rate limits for Docker Hub.…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of a new GPU-powered instance called Amazon P4d that is based on Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture, and the two firms are making big performance claims.AWS has offered GPU-powered instances for a decade now, the most current generation called P3. AWS and Nvidia are both claiming that P4d instances offer three times faster performance,

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Intel has revealed its 11th-gen CPU lineup complete with a set of ‘S-series’ desktop processors aimed at high-performance desktop machines and users craving power for the most demanding tasks. Dubbed Rocket Lake-S, the 11th-gen Intel Core processor will introduce a new architecture known as Cypress Cove, which is designed to transform hardware and software efficiency, and boost performance. These

Today Acer held its next@Acer 2020 press conference, where it showed off a variety of new products across its different brands, and revealed products from its new partnership with Porsche Design. The first products of this partnership is the Porsche Design Acer Book RS laptop with a compact all-metal chassis containing an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU paired with an NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU and 16 GB