Alibaba, a long-time user of Nvidia’s AI processors, is now working on its own competing technology. It recently unveiled a processor with the same performance specs as Nvidia’s AI accelerator ...

A Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized chip designed to accelerate AI and machine learning (ML) tasks. Unlike traditional computer processors (CPUs) or graphics processing units (GPUs), TPUs ...

With MassiveFold, scientists have unlocked AlphaFold's full potential, making high-confidence protein predictions faster and more accessible, fueling breakthroughs in biology and drug discovery. Brief ...

Parallel programming is a method of organising parallel, simultaneous computations within a program. In the traditional sequential model, code is executed step by step, and at any given moment, only ...

Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and data processing units (DPUs). However, what almost all modern ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Flow Computing, a Finnish startup, has introduced a novel chip technology with the potential to boost Central Processing Unit (CPU) performance significantly. Their Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) ...

Although Moore’s Law has slowed at bit as chip makers reach the physical limits of transistor size, researchers are having to look to other things other than cramming more transistors on a chip to ...

Finnish startup Flow Computing Oy today revealed seemingly outlandish plans to transform the chip industry with a new Parallel Processing Unit that it says can boost the performance of any central ...