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FASTEST, LARGEST, STRONGEST: NVIDIA BLACKWELL SWEEPS MLPERF TRAINING 6.0

NVIDIA's Blackwell platform dominated MLPerf Training 6.0 benchmarks, achieving the fastest training times and the largest-scale training with 8,192 GPUs. Blackwell's NVLink and NVFP4 innovations enhance performance by efficiently routing MoE models and enabling rapid, large-scale training. Reliability features like the Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Engine and NVIDIA Resiliency Extension ensure minimal downtime and faster recovery in large-scale AI environments.

QUALCOMM WANTS TO BE THE CHIP INSIDE WHATEVER REPLACES YOUR SMARTPHONE, AND IT JUST ANNOUNCED TWO PRODUCTS TOWARD THAT END

Qualcomm is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices. It has announced a platform called Snapdragon Reality Elite for mixed-reality glass and the Scalable Turnkey AI-Ready toolkit, a combination of hardware models and a software stack for AI devices. The company is aiming to position itself as the foundational silicon layer for whatever is coming after the smartphone. It is experimenting with a range of potential form factors that can work with AI technologies.

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