China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that has implications for science, national security and geopolitics.

British mathematician Jack Good coined the term “intelligence explosion” 61 years ago to describe what would happen when an intelligent machine entered a runaway cycle of fully automated ...

What is Nvidia DLSS? Deep Learning Super Sampling, or DLSS, is a suite of software technologies that use AI to help you boost your frame rate or game image quality. Originally just a technique for ...

Forgive me for starting with a cliché, a piece of finance jargon that has recently slipped into the tech lexicon, but I’m afraid I must talk about “moats.” Popularized decades ago by Warren Buffett to ...

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) directly led to the development of GPU ...

On Wednesday, Meta unveiled four new artificial intelligence chips: The MTIA 300, MTIA 400, MTIA 450, and the MTIA 500. The 300 is optimized for Meta's core ranking & recommendation (R&R) workloads, ...

Meta Platforms introduced its new AI training and inference chips last week. Meta collaborated with Broadcom in the effort, with Broadcom saying customers are increasingly turning to specialized XPUs ...

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Abstract: Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of the most important kernels for many applications. In this paper, we study the implementation of SpMV for scale-free matrices on many-core ...

Google’s efforts to sell or lease its artificial intelligence server chips so they can run in any company’s data center—and not just in Google Cloud—have generated headlines, stock moves and a ...

Nvidia’s position as the dominant supplier of AI chips may be under threat from a specialised chip pioneered by Google, with reports suggesting companies like Meta and Anthropic are looking to spend ...