Let’s start by paying tribute to SpaceX’s engineering prowess: those who missed the incredible images of the Super Heavy booster rocket getting back on the launch pad – and then getting caught up by the launch tower – might want to catch up by watching this video from Bloomberg.
ChipAgents: adding AI agents to existing EDA flows
California-based startup Alpha Design has introduced ChipAgents, an artificial intelligence solution (an “AI agent”) meant to be added to existing EDA flows. According to the company, ChipAgents enables designers to transform their concepts into precise design specifications using simple language prompts; analyzes and generates RTL design specs and code; auto-completes Verilog; automates the creation of testbenches; and, through real-time learning from simulations, it autonomously verifies and debugs design code.
New AMD Instinct MI325X accelerator challenging Nvidia H200
On occasion of its “Advancing AI” 2024 event, AMD announced its latest accelerator and networking solutions: the Instinct MI325X accelerators, the Pensando Pollara 400 NIC and the Pensando Salina DPU. According to the company, the Instinct MI325X accelerators deliver industry-leading memory capacity and bandwidth, with 256GB of HBM3E supporting 6.0TB/s, offering 1.8X more capacity and 1.3x more bandwidth than the Nvidia H200. The AMD Instinct MI325X also offers 1.3X greater peak theoretical FP16 and FP8 compute performance compared to Nvidia H200. This translates into up to 1.3X the inference performance on Mistral 7B at FP16, 1.2X the inference performance on Llama 3.1 70B at FP8 and 1.4X the inference performance on Mixtral 8x7B at FP16 of the H200. Besides introducing new chips, AMD has also confirmed it continues to invest in its ROCm open software stack for AI.
