Alibaba unveils AI chip to enhance its cloud services
Alibaba Group has developed a new chip that specialises in machine-learning tasks and which will be used to enhance services for its cloud computing division.
Alibaba Group has developed a new chip that specialises in machine-learning tasks and which will be used to enhance services for its cloud computing division.
Researchers from RMIT, ANU, QUT and Colorado State University have demonstrated an ultra-thin electronic chip which they say can mimic the way neurons work to store and delete information in the brain.
At the business ends of the extensive web of fibre optic cables that thread around the world, the pulses of light they carry have to be converted into electronic signals.
The new chip, Krzanich said, is “a major breakthrough for quantum computing” and comes just two months after Intel announced it had fabricated a 17-qubit test-chip.
Having travelled halfway round the world down underwater fibre optic cable in an instant, by the time data in light form reaches your computer, it has to be slowed down to be processed.