New-Tech Europe Magazine | June 2019

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AMD and Samsung Announce Strategic Partnership in Ultra Low Power, High Performance Graphics Technologies

AMD and Samsung Electronics announced a multi-year

Business. “We look forward to working with AMD to accelerate innovations in mobile graphics technologies that will help take future mobile computing to the next level.” “Adoption of our Radeon graphics technologies across the PC, game console, cloud and HPC markets has grown significantly and we are thrilled

strategic partnership in ultra low power, high performance mobile graphics IP based on AMD Radeon graphics technologies. As part of the partnership, Samsung will license AMD graphics IP and will focus on advanced graphics technologies and solutions that are critical for enhancing innovation across mobile applications, including smartphones. “As we prepare for disruptive changes in technology and discover new opportunities, our partnership with AMD will allow us to bring groundbreaking graphics products and solutions to market for tomorrow’s mobile applications,” said Inyup Kang, president of Samsung Electronics’ S.LSI Habana Labs, Ltd. (www.habana.ai), a leading developer of AI processors, announced the Habana Gaudi™ AI Training Processor. Training systems based on Gaudi processors will deliver an increase in throughput of up to four times over systems built with equivalent number GPUs. Gaudi’s innovative architecture enables near-linear scaling of training systems performance, as high throughput is maintained even at smaller batch sizes, thus allowing performance scaling of Gaudi-based systems from a single- device to large systems built with hundreds of Gaudi processors. In addition to record-breaking performance, Gaudi brings another industry first to AI training: on-chip integration of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2) functionality within the AI processor, to enable the scaling of AI systems to any size, using standard Ethernet. With Gaudi, Habana Labs’ customers can now utilize standard Ethernet switching for both scaling-up and scaling-out AI training systems. Ethernet switches are multi-sourced, offering virtually unlimited scalability in speeds and port-count,

to now partner with industry leader Samsung to accelerate graphics innovation in the mobile market,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. “This strategic partnership will extend the reach of our high-performance Radeon graphics into the mobile market, significantly expanding the Radeon user base and development ecosystem.”

Habana Labs Announces Gaudi AI Training Processor

and are already used in datacenters to scale compute and storage systems. In contrast to Habana’s standards-based approach, GPU-based systems rely on proprietary system interfaces, that inherently limit scalability and choice for system designers. “With its new products, Habana has quickly extended from inference into training, covering the full range of neural-network functions,” commented Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of The Linley Group. “Gaudi offers strong performance and industry-leading power efficiency among AI training accelerators. As the first AI processor to integrate 100G Ethernet links with RoCE support, it enables large clusters of accelerators built using industry-standard components.” The Gaudi processor includes 32GB of HBM-2 memory and is currently offered in two forms: HL-200 – a PCIe card supporting eight ports of 100Gb Ethernet; HL-205 – a mezzanine card compliant with the OCP-OAM specification, supporting 10 ports of 100Gb Ethernet

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