Qualcomm Technologies today announced the launch of its AI inference solutions for data centers: the Qualcomm AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards, and racks. The AI200 and AI250 are expected to be commercially available in 2026 and 2027 ….
Stony Brook Univ. Wins $14M NSF Grant for Ampere-Qualcomm HPC System
September 16, 2025 by
STONY BROOK, NY – September 16, 2025 – The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $13.77 million grant to Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), in collaboration with the University at Buffalo. The award titled, Sustainable Cyber-infrastructure for Expanding Participation, will deliver HPC-class computing and data resources. This funding will be used to procure and […]
Report: Qualcomm May Return to Data Center AI Chip Market
August 1, 2025 by
Qualcomm, the $39 billion chip design company, may return to the data center chip market, according to a story in The Register. “Qualcomm has teased a serious run at the data center market for years and in May CEO Cristiano Amon told the Computex ….
HPC News Bytes: The Next New Big Thing in AI?, UALink and Optical I/O, Arm vs. Qualcomm
December 23, 2024 by
A happy holiday season to you! As we enter Christmas week, here’s a quick (6:14) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: long thinking AI – the next new big thing?, UALink and optical I/O – a possible next new big thing in interconnects, Arm vs. Qualcomm ….
HPC News Bytes 20240923 Podcast: Intel-Qualcomm, Responses to AI Energy Crisis, HPC-AI Beyond GPUs
September 23, 2024 by
A belated happy autumnal equinox to you! The white-water HPC-AI world produced major news over the past week, including: previously unthinkable Intel M&A reports, chips and software ….
HPC-AI Chips in the News: NVIDIA, AMD Ensnared in US-China Trade War; Arm Sues Qualcomm
September 1, 2022 by
NVIDIA and AMD, makers of advanced GPUs used in HPC-AI workloads, became embroiled this week in the deteriorating relations and ongoing trade war between the US and the People’s Republic of China. Yesterday, Nvidia said it has been prohibited by the US government from selling to the PRC its A100 Tensor Core GPU, on the […]
Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm Protest Nvidia-Arm Acquisition
February 12, 2021 by
On the heels of an announcement by Arm Holdings yesterday that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, news stories from CNBC and Bloomberg report that Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm are filing complains to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia’s intended acquisition of Arm from Softbank for $40 billion, […]
Qualcomm to bring power-efficient AI Inference to the Cloud
April 10, 2019 by
Today Qualcomm announced that it is bringing the Company’s artificial intelligence expertise to the cloud with the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100. “Our all new Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator will significantly raise the bar for the AI inference processing relative to any combination of CPUs, GPUs, and/or FPGAs used in today’s data centers,” said Keith Kressin, senior vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
