Superlatives abound at Cerebras, the until-today stealthy next-generation silicon chip company looking to make training a deep learning model as quick as buying toothpaste from Amazon. Launching after almost three years of quiet development, Cerebras introduced its new chip today — and it is a doozy.
The modern microprocessor is among the world’s most complex systems, but at its heart is a very simple, and we think beautiful, device: the transistor. There are billions of them in a microprocessor today, and they are nearly all identical. So improving the performance and boosting the density of these transistors is the most straightforward way to make microprocessors—and the computers they power—work better.
US gaming and computer graphics giant Nvidia Corp. will acquire Israeli chip maker Mellanox Technologies Ltd. for $6.9 billion, the Israeli firm said in a statement Monday. The move will help the US firm speed up the flow of information to and from data centers and boost its profit and cash flow.
As part of the deal the US firm will acquire the company for $125 a share in cash, the statement said, representing a 14 percent premium to the market value of the shares. Mellanox shares closed at $109.38 on Friday, giving the Israeli firm a valuation of $5.9 billion.
On the bleak, cratered surface of Mercury, temperatures can reach some 430 degrees Celsius in the daytime. Almost twice the distance away from the Sun, Venus has a similar surface temperature of around 462 Celsius, thanks to an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
Researchers at the University of Utah and the University of Minnesota have discovered that when two oxide compounds — strontium titanate (STO) and neodymium titanate (NTO) — are joined together, they make an extraordinary conductive material that could vastly improve power transistors. The researchers have shown that these two materials—which on their own operate as insulators—are up to five times more conductive than silicon.
