Apple’s recently announced M3 and A17 Pro chips feature several significant improvements to parallel processing, which results in major performance gains for apps and games that utilize the Metal API.

Most infrastructure decisions look fine on paper until real AI workloads begin running at scale. Then performance issues ...

Despite Apple Silicon currently working solely with its own on-board GPU cores, Apple is researching how to support more options, like PCI-E GPUs, all working in tandem. One thing Intel Macs had that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A recent post on Reddit in the mlscaling sub reads a little bit like a spy novel in looking at where we’re going to get new ...

Originally designed to accelerate computer image processing, graphics processing units (GPUs) are specialized circuits typically used primarily for gaming. With the boom in generative AI, though, GPUs ...

Until the late 1990s, the concept of a 3D accelerator card was something generally associated with high-end workstations. Video games and kin would run happily on the CPU in one’s desktop system, with ...

Hard forks and easier access to GPU computing hold the potential to alleviate developers’ work, which can offset the ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to the ...