Cerebras scoops $1bn to take on Nvidia
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Silicon Valley start-up wants to crash the AI chip party

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems has bagged more than $1 billion from backers including Fidelity and Donald Trump Jr’s 1789 Capital as it tries to peel customers away from Nvidia.

AMD gets PyTorch working on Windows
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Radeon 9000, 7000 and Ryzen AI kit now less useless 

AMD has delivered on its Computex 2025 promise to make PyTorch work on Windows for consumer GPUs and APUs.

AMD waves ROCm 7 about to take on Nvidia’s CUDA cult
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Hopes devs finally look at its software stack

AMD has shoved ROCm 7 onto GitHub, fuelling speculation that this might be the release to finally lead developers out of Nvidia’s CUDA walled garden and into a promised land.

Nvidia makes CUDA play nice with RISC-V
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GPU giant eyes open silicon for edge

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia dropped a bombshell by revealing that its CUDA software platform will now run on RISC-V CPUs.

AMD snaps up Brium to loosen Nvidia’s AI iron grip
Published in AI


Chipmaker adds stealthy startup to its growing anti-Nvidia arsenal

AMD has snapped up a little-known AI startup called Brium in a move that looks suspiciously like an attempt to smash Nvidia’s stranglehold on the AI software ecosystem.

Nvidia expects to have used a billion RISC-V cores this year
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It is not all about CUDA

By the end of the year Nvidia will have shipped a billion RISC-V cores under the bonnet of its GPUS.

Nvidia’s CUDA faces a worthy foe
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AMD’s stealthy gambit

AMD has made a significant move in the world of GPU software development by introducing a solution that bridges the gap between its ROCm technology and NVIDIA’s CUDA binaries.

Lamini ditches Nvidia
Published in AI
27 September 2023

Lamini ditches Nvidia


AMD GPUs easier for Llama-2

AI startup Lamini uses AMD GPUs instead of the more popular Nvidia GPUs to run large language models (LLMs) like Llama-2 for customers.

Nvidia benchmark disappoints
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Life is like that

Leaked versions of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card have disappointed some Nvidia fanboys who expected more from the company named after a Roman vengence daemon. 

Otoy allows CUDA to run on AMD
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Sheep and goats together


Graphics start-up Otoy has claimed it has developed a means of running software written for Nvidia's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) platform on unmodified on rival graphics cards and CPUs from AMD.