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The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip

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Deep learning is all the rage these days in enterprise circles, and it isn’t hard to understand why. Whether it is optimizing ad spend, finding new drugs to cure cancer, or just offering better, more intelligent products to customers, machine learning — and particularly deep learning models — have the potential to massively improve a […] Continue reading The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip→

AI Chip startup Cerebras Systems picks up a former Intel top exec

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While some of the largest technology companies in the world are racing to figure out the next generation of machine learning-focused chips that will support devices — whether that’s data centers or edge devices — there’s a whole class of startups that are racing to get there first. That includes Cerebras Systems, one of the […] Continue reading AI Chip startup Cerebras Systems picks up a former Intel top exec→

SiFive gets $50.6M to help companies get their custom chip designs out the door

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With the race to next-generation silicon in full swing, the waterfall of venture money flowing into custom silicon startups is already showing an enormous amount of potential for some more flexible hardware for an increasingly changing technology landscape — and Naveed Sherwani hopes to tap that for everyone else. That’s the premise of SiFive, a […] Continue reading SiFive gets $50.6M to help companies get their custom chip designs out the door→

Mythic nets $40M to create a new breed of efficient AI-focused hardware

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Another huge financing round is coming in for an AI company today, this time for a startup called Mythic getting a fresh $40 million as it appears massive deals are closing left and right in the sector. Mythic particularly focuses on the inference side of AI operations — basically making the calculation on the spot […] Continue reading Mythic nets $40M to create a new breed of efficient AI-focused hardware→

The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems

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Another massive financing round for an AI chip company is coming in today, this time for SambaNova Systems — a startup founded by a pair of Stanford professors and a longtime chip company executive — to build out the next generation of hardware to supercharge AI-centric operations. SambaNova joins an already quite large class of […] Continue reading The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems→