As our thoughts go out to the victims of the southern California wildfires, here’s a quick (7:29) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: China’s opaque TOP100 ….
HPC News Bytes 20250113: China’s Opaque HPC List, Desktop AI Supercomputer, Exploding Hyperscale Data Center Capacity, New MPI ABI
January 13, 2025 by
Trying to Read China’s New Top 100 Supercomputing List
January 8, 2025 by
Since 2017, China stopped taking part in the LINPACK benchmark used by the TOP500 organization to rank the world’s most power supercomputers. Yet for the past several years, the Chinese Society of Computer Science has released a listing of the country’s top 100 supercomputers. Yet China’s HPC opacity remains ….
HPC News Bytes 20240729: Nvidia Monster 2025 Revenue Projection and a Chip for China; China’s ‘New’ HPC Secrecy; Graphene Plasmon Progress
July 29, 2024 by
Good high-summer day to you! This week’s version of HPC News Bytes offers a rapid (6:20) romp through recent HPC-AI news, including: Nvidia’s ….
China Intends to Exceed 300 Exaflops Aggregate Compute Power by 2025
October 10, 2023 by
The People’s Republic of China, so cagy in recent years regarding its leadership-class supercomputing resources, on Sunday declared its intent to exceed 300 exaflops of aggregate computing power within two years, a 50 percent increase over its current stated capacity of 200 exaflops. This in the face of tightening sanctions imposed by the U.S. on the export of….
China’s Plan To Be The AI Leader Makes Headway; Can The U.S. Thwart That Plan?
September 5, 2022 by
In this contributed article, Erika Twani, Co-founder and CEO of Learning One to One, discusses the global AI industry and how China’s plan to be the AI leader is making headway; and also how the U.S. can thwart that plan.
Chip Geopolitics: If China Invades, Make Taiwan ‘Unwantable’ by Destroying TSMC, Military Paper Suggests
January 6, 2022 by
US military planners are taking notice of a suggestion by two military scholars calling for the destruction of semiconductor foundry company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), whose fabs produce advanced microprocessors used in HPC and AI, in the event China invades the island nation A news story in today’ edition of Data Center Times cites […]
Hyperion Research Announces Enhanced Coverage of China’s HPC Market
December 21, 2021 by
ST. PAUL, Minn., December 21, 2021 – Hyperion Research said that after years of research and relationship-building in China, the company will now report in much greater detail on China’s increasingly important high performance computing (HPC) and advanced AI market. In the past decade, China has risen from a minor HPC player to challenge the […]
Despite $6.1 Billion in Funding, China Not Leading in AI Innovation
September 21, 2019 by
Over the past four years, Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startups have received $6.1 billion in funding. However, despite immense amounts of investment and being second only to the U.S. in number of companies focusing on AI, China is not leading in cutting-edge AI innovation. To better understand the progress of AI in China, our friends over at Lux Research, a leading provider of tech-enabled research and advisory services for technology innovation, took a deep dive into China’s AI patents, research papers, venture capital (VC) funding, and other innovation data in their new report, “Will China Take Over the Global AI Industry?”
