Monthly Archives: May 2016

Google’s TPU Chip Creates More Questions Than Answers

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Google’s announcement last week that they developed a custom chip for Deep Learning has created a lot of press and unanswered questions. At the Google I/O developers conference, the company shared that they have been using an internally-developed processor, called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), for over a year to accelerate Deep Learning applications, from Google Street View to their much-heralded win at the game of Go. Rumors have swirled for years that Google may develop their own processors, potentially based on ARM Holdings V8 and / or IBM OpenPOWER, to displace Intel Xeon server processors. This announcement shows that Google may be more interested in chips that are tailored to accelerate specific workloads, especially for Artificial Intelligence.

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Samsung is still world’s largest SSD maker

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The latest report from storage market tracking company TrendFocus shows that Samsung remains the top dog in the SSD market. According to the report, a total of 30.77 million SSDs were shipped during Q1 2016, an increase of 32% from the same period last year.

The company has over 40% market share and for Q1 2016 shipped 12.93 million SSDs compared to 9.42 million last year. SanDisk follows with 12.8% of the market while Lite-On is third with 11.4% market share.

Samsung’s SSD business includes not only selling products to PC makers like Lenovo, Apple and HP, but also directly to…

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