HBM3
While this year’s Spring GTC event doesn’t feature any new GPUs or GPU architectures from NVIDIA, the company is still in the process of rolling out new products based on the Hopper and Ada Lovelace GPUs its introduced in the past year. At the high-end of the market, the company today is announcing a new H100 accelerator variant specifically aimed at large language model users: the H100 NVL. The H100 NVL is an interesting variant on NVIDIA’s H100 PCIe card that, in a sign of the times and NVIDIA’s success in the AI field, is aimed at a singular market: large language model (LLM) deployment. There are a few things that make this card atypical from NVIDIA’s usual server fare – not the least of...
NVIDIA Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator Announced: Working Smarter and Harder
Depending on your point of view, the last two years have either gone by very slowly, or very quickly. While the COVID pandemic never seemed to end – and...
88 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2022SK Hynix Announces Its First HBM3 Memory: 24GB Stacks, Clocked at up to 6.4Gbps
Though the formal specification has yet to be ratified by JEDEC, the memory industry as a whole is already gearing up for the upcoming launch of the next generation...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: New Tech (Infineon, EdgeQ, Samsung)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021SK Hynix Licenses DBI Ultra Interconnect for Next-Gen 3DS and HBM DRAM
SK Hynix has inked a new broad patent and technology licensing agreement with Xperi Corp. Among other things, the company licensed the DBI Ultra 2.5D/3D interconnect technology developed by...
9 by Anton Shilov on 2/11/2020Samsung Starts Production of 8 Gb DDR4-3600 ICs Using 2nd Gen 10nm-Class Tech
Samsung late on Wednesday said that it had initiated mass production of DDR4 memory chips using its second generation '10 nm-class' fabrication process. The new manufacturing technology shrinks die...
24 by Anton Shilov on 12/20/2017