Vega 7nm is not a GPU
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 10 April 2018 10:09

Vega 7nm is not a GPU


Current plan: will never be

Many AMD fanboys hoped that Vega 7 nm would be a GPU that could make Vega more competitive to Nvidia's offering.

Jensen thinks Quantum is the future
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 06 April 2018 13:59

Jensen thinks Quantum is the future


Exclusive:  Will be important

Last week at the GTC we saw Jen Hsung Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia walking by, and of course, we had to ask him a question. The single thing I wanted to ask was his opinion about Quantum computing.

Row brewing over AI powered killer robots
Published in AI


Boffins tell South Korean university to stop research

Leading AI experts have boycotted a South Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology over its partnership with weapons manufacturer Hanwha Systems to make AI armed robots.

Apple hopes to get more intelligence from Google
Published in News


Help us, John Giannandrea, you are our only hope

Fruity cargo cult Apple has head hunted Google's chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea in a desperate bid to catch up with its rivals on AI.

Seven countries agree a common AI vision
Published in News
Friday, 30 March 2018 10:54

Seven countries agree a common AI vision


Not one where humans are kept as pets

G7 countries have agreed to a "common vision" for the development of artificial intelligence.

Nvida shows off new GPU powered-AI supercomputer
Published in Graphics


Updated DGX-2

The boss of the outfit named after a Roman vengeance demon, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at GTC to unveil some GPU-powered innovations for machine learning, including a new AI supercomputer and an updated version of the company's  Tesla V100 GPU that now has  32GB of onboard HBM2 memory.

Firms investing fortunes in AI
Published in News
Tuesday, 27 March 2018 10:29

Firms investing fortunes in AI


Spending reaching $19.1 billion in 2018.

Tarot readers at IDC have shuffled their decks and decided that worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems will reach $19.1 billion in 2018.

IBM CEO says 80 percent of data is not searchable
Published in News


IBM Think 2018: That is where AI can help

Ginni Rometty, the President and CEO of IBM, reminded us that the world we are living in has changed dramatically. Eighty percent of data created is not searchable and this is where AI can really help.

Xilinx says computing after Moore’s Law is called ACAP
Published in PC Hardware


Adaptive compute acceleration platform

Intel's Gordon Moore came with one of the most prominent rules/"laws" of the semiconductor industry, that the number of transistors on chip would double every 18th month.

Artificial Intelligence is very artificial indeed
Published in News


Opinion
Buzz words and the facts

Manufacturers - or vendors as I prefer to call them -  have touted artificial intelligence (AI) almost since the beginning of the dawn of the computer. Which was 70 or 80 years ago, depending on how you're counting things.