2026-02-25
I guess Good for Sambanova. But I don't feel like this is sustainable unless they start getting some actual momentum. The deal is good for both of them, let's intel ship bunch of their GPUs for prefill and CPU as host, and Intel helps Sambanova reach out to customers.
Bloomberg
SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium
2026-02-24
I guess Good for Sambanova. But I don't feel like this is sustainable unless they start getting some actual momentum. The deal is good for both of them, let's intel ship bunch of their GPUs for prefill and CPU as host, and Intel helps Sambanova reach out to customers.
Bloomberg
SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium
Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. raised $350 million in a new funding round and said that customers …
2025-04-14
Sandra leaving Altera is weird
Reuters
Intel says it will sell a 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.7B; Intel bought Altera for $15B in 2015
Intel said on Monday it would sell a 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75 billion.
2024-12-02
well this was out of the blue https://www.intc.com/...
TechCrunch
Intel says CEO Pat Gelsinger retired and left its board on December 1, and names CFO David Zinsner and Client Computing Group GM Michelle Holthaus as co-CEOs
Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company's board of directors.
2024-06-14
Holy mother of cache spam, thatCPU cluster L2 is huge. Also that IGPU architecture is very interesting, very wide wave support and dedicated ALUs for half/low precision formats are side effects of being from a smartphone focused architecture. I really like the GMEM block tho
AnandTech
A deep dive into the Snapdragon X Elite/Plus architecture including Oryon, Qualcomm's custom-built Arm CPU cores, as first laptops with the SoC ship next week
Ryan Smith / AnandTech :
2024-04-11
Interesting chip, but there's a 3.6x power consumption increase for ~3x performance improvement(25w->90w) ? Am I seeing that correct?
The Verge
Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips for AI training, and says MTIA v1 and the new chips are both now in production
Our very own Nicolaas Viljoen is featured in this blog post. … Tanmay Zargar : Unveiling what we've been working on for the past few years - the next generation of MTIA Inference p...