Alibaba designed the XuanTie C950 central processor unit (CPU) for agentic AI purposes. While much of the attention has focused on GPUs, an area Nvidia dominates, CPUs are seen as key for AI ...

The ‘neural processing unit’ is being pushed as the next big thing for ‘AI PCs’ and ‘AI smartphones,’ but it won’t eliminate the need for cloud-based AI. Reading time 6 minutes There’s a CPU. There’s ...

Your computer's central processing unit, or CPU, is the equivalent of a computer's brain. It helps to power your computer's behavior, telling everything connected to it what to do by making ...

Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics processing, and to ...

Graphics processing units have become much more prominent in recent years because of their ability to perform the complex calculations on large data sets that underpin modern artificial intelligence ...

Scientists introduce what they call 'simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading' or SHMT. This system doubles computer processing speeds with existing hardware by simultaneously using graphics ...

High-performance computing (HPC) has taken on many meanings over the years. The primary goal of HPC is to provide the needed computational power to run a data center – a utilitarian facility dedicated ...

Ever notice how there are a lot of acronyms for computer stuff? API, BIOS, CPU, DOS (not to be confused with DoS), DRAM, GPU, HDD, RAM, ROM, and a whole lot more... It can get downright overwhelming.