8 AI Chips Challenging NVIDIA In Computing Industry

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1| AWS Inferentia
Latest in the AI chips, Amazon announced ‘Inferentia’ during the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Designed by Annapurna Labs which is an Amazon-owned Israeli company, the chip is made to deal with large workloads while requiring lower latency.
2| Intel’s Myriad 2 AI Chip
Brought to you by Movidius, an Intel company, these chips are utilised for some of the most ambitious AI, vision and imaging applications involving both enhanced performance and low power consumption.
3| IBM’s 8-Bit Analog Chip
IBM was recently in news for bringing new hardware that brings power efficiency and improved training for AI projects. The newest solution utilises in-memory computing that promises to double the accuracy and consumes 33x less energy than a digital architecture of similar precision. It is well suited for low-power environments, making it possible to bring AI to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and edge computing applications.
4| Huawei’s Ascend 910 and Ascend 310
Huawei recently announced two new AI chips— Ascend 910 and Ascend 310, at a recent global event for the ITC industry held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre.With an aim to be used in data centres and internet-connected consumer devices, this is pegged as one of the most powerful chips for edge computing scenarios.

5| AMD GPU Radeon Instinct MI60
6| Google TPU
7| PowerVR GPUs and AI chips By Imagination
8| Qualcomm AI Chips
Startups In The Space
2016 founded Cerebras System is a California-based startup that was recently funded for building chips for next-gen machine learning operations.
Another UK-based AI hardware startup called Graphcore is working to lower the cost of accelerating AI applications in cloud and enterprise data centres to increase the performance of both training and inference by up to 100x compared to the fastest systems today.
Coming back to India, AlphaIC (Alpha Integrated Circuits) a startup which is trying to introduce revolutionary changes in the world of high-performance computing and data centres using AI.

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