Huawei has greenlit a plan to open-source its CANN software toolkit for its Ascend AI GPUs. According to the South China Morning Post, Huawei is making this move in order to better compete against ...

Nvidia is the undisputed leader in professional GPU applications, and that doesn’t come down solely to making the best graphics cards. A big piece of the puzzle is Nvidia’s CUDA platform, which is the ...

Nvidia has put the final nail in the coffin for developer Nvidia GPU support on MacOS, officially calling an end to compatibility with its CUDA toolkit. The development environment allows developers ...

That move would help “speed up innovation from developers” and “make Ascend easier to use”, Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun said on Tuesday at the company’s developer conference in Beijing.

At its most basic level, Compute Unified Architecture (CUDA) allows general-purpose processing and other tasks to run on NVIDIA GPUs with extensive language support. Since its inception, CUDA has been ...

Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA, is a software platform for doing big parallel calculation tasks on NVIDIA GPUs. It’s been a big part of the push to use GPUs for general purpose computing ...

While it’s a notable challenge to the status quo, the real question is whether Huawei can overcome the substantial technical and systemic barriers that have kept CUDA virtually unchallenged for nearly ...

Nvidia recently warned developers against using its CUDA on non-Nvidia GPUs, a move where the company tries to fend off other competitors. It also highlights another challenge in China's efforts to ...

Today at SIGGRPAH, NVIDIA announced its newest GPUs based on the new Turing architecture. This fundamentally changes how computer graphics will be done, it’s a step change in realism,” Huang told an ...