Nvidia pauses its $36B AI Compute Partnership
Two months. That is how long Nvidia's neocloud financing programme ran before the Wall Street Journal reported, on 27 August, that the company had stepped back from parts of it. ...
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Cerebras stacks three wafers for 750 PFLOPS
Look at the spec table for two minutes and the story falls out on its own. Every number on the WSE-3 Turbo is exactly double the WSE-3: 125 petaflops becomes ...
NVIDIA’s $500B compute financing and the 25% backstop
Six phone calls, and nobody said no. That is roughly how Jensen Huang described it, and on 10 August NVIDIA announced memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman ...
Nvidia SSI deal: $5B reported, 10x compute on Vera Rubin
A four-line post on X, from an account that had barely spoken in two years. That's how the biggest number in this week's AI coverage got loose. On 27 July, ...
SK and NVIDIA signed letters of intent, not a $500B deal
Three deals landed in one afternoon at a San Francisco hotel, and the biggest number came with the least paperwork. On July 24 SK Group and NVIDIA announced plans for ...
AMD Helios vs Vera Rubin NVL72: the MI455X numbers
Lisa Su held a chip up on stage in San Francisco on July 23 and called Helios the best rack in the world today. The slide behind her read IN ...
NVIDIA Ising Decoder ColorCode 1: what 347x really means
Scroll down to Figure 1 in NVIDIA's post and there's a small asterisk next to d=31. Easy to miss. It's also most of the story, because the 347.7x logical error ...
Nvidia cut half its authorised AI chip buyers in Asia
A small cloud in Singapore quotes you GPU hours at a price that makes your finance person smile. Then the quote goes quiet, and nobody explains why. Here's a decent ...