FFmpeg up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten assembly code(tomshardware.com)

169 points by yboris 2 years ago | 25 comments

Intel spends more on R&D than Nvidia and AMD combined(tomshardware.com)

6 points by doener 2 years ago | 2 comments

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3(tomshardware.com)

28 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 4 comments

ASML to Ship First High-NA EUV Tool This Year: $300M per Scanner(tomshardware.com)

96 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 64 comments

Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance(tomshardware.com)

89 points by sien 1 year ago | 45 comments

U.S. Bans Sales of Nvidia's H100, A100 GPUs to Middle East(tomshardware.com)

42 points by ironyman 3 years ago | 42 comments

AMD may get across the CUDA moat(hpcwire.com)

498 points by danzheng 3 years ago | 266 comments

HPCwire article by Doug Eadline discussing how AMD's Instinct GPUs and software stack might overcome Nvidia's CUDA software lock-in for GenAI workloads.

Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours(bloomberg.com)

23 points by mfiguiere 16 days ago | 7 comments

Bloomberg Markets article and video about the collapse of a planned $30 billion IPO by data center company Firmus within 48 hours.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon(theregister.com)

902 points by itvision 2 months ago | 681 comments

The Register reports AMD has acquired AI chip startup Taalas, which hardwires model weights into silicon for fast inference, reaching up to 17,000 tokens per second.

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel(tomshardware.com)

935 points by stycznik 1 year ago | 569 comments

Tom's Hardware report on Nvidia buying $5 billion in Intel stock and the two jointly developing x86 RTX SoCs for PCs and custom data center x86 CPUs.

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards(ollama.com)

578 points by tosh 2 years ago | 194 comments

Ollama blog post from March 14, 2024 announcing preview support for running models on AMD graphics cards.

AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake(reuters.com)

387 points by chillax 1 year ago | 316 comments

Reuters article on AMD's AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI that gives OpenAI an option to take a 10% stake in AMD; the page loaded a captcha instead.