A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...

According to information on T-Head’s website, the Zhenwu 810E was a “fully self-developed” parallel processing unit (PPU), an application-specific integrated circuit designed for both AI training and ...

The launch of the Zhenwu 810E marks the latest initiative by China's Big Tech firms to develop a domestic alternative to Nvidia's AI chips Alibaba Group Holding's semiconductor design arm, T-Head, on ...

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...

Almost every technological innovation of the past several years has been laser-focused on one thing: generative AI. Many of these supposedly revolutionary systems run on big, expensive servers in a ...

San Diego, Nov. 24, 2025 – Kneron, a San Diego-based company developing neural processing units (NPUs) for AI, today announced its KL1140 chip. It is built to bring LLMs to edge devices, delivering up ...

Google has spent more than a decade developing silicon, a bet that's paying off in a big way from the AI boom. The company says increased demand for its Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, is one reason ...

Alibaba, a long-time user of Nvidia’s AI processors, is now working on its own competing technology. It recently unveiled a processor with the same performance specs as Nvidia’s AI accelerator ...