This next-gen AI chip could be a major instrument in advancing the tech
Nvidia claims its monstrous chip provides a cheaper and faster alternative to today’s supercomputing hardware
California based chip giant Nvidia recently unveiled its artificial intelligence chip Nvidia A100 — designed to cater to all AI workloads. Chip manufacturing has seen some major innovations in recent times. Last summer, I covered another California-based chip startup Cerebras, which raised the bar with its innovative chip design dubbed as “Wafer-Scale Engine” (WSE).
As the need for supercomputing systems gathers pace, chip manufacturers are scrambling to come up with futuristic chip designs that can cater to the needs of processing complex calculations on such systems. Intel, the biggest chip manufacturer is working on powerful “neuromorphic chips” that use the human brain as a model. This design basically replicates the working of brain neurons to process information smoothly — with the proposed chip having a computational capacity of 100 million neurons.
More recently, the Australian startup Cortical Labs has taken this idea one step further by designing a system, using a combination of biological neurons and a specialized computer chip — tapping into the power of digital systems and…
