The supercomputer, called "El Capitan," cost $600 million to build and will handle various sensitive and classified tasks including securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons in the absence of ...

AMD and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced today that the AMD-powered El Capitan has taken the top spot on the semi-annual Top500 list as the fastest-known supercomputer ...

DOE’s plan to use AMD processors for its El Capitan supercomputer comes after the chipmaker announced last May that it would supply next-generation EPYC processors and Radeon Instinct GPUs for ...

El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, is currently contributing to research about the nation’s nuclear ...

Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU chip delivering 42.5 exaflops of AI compute power — 24x more than the world's fastest supercomputer — ushering in the "age of inference." ...

As part of the pre-briefings ahead of the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference last week and then during the keynote address, the top brass at Google kept comparing a pod of “Ironwood” TPU v7p systems to ...

The United States' nuclear stockpile will be managed by a $600 million supercomputer called "El Capitan" that's more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers in the world today combined.

Google unveils Ironwood TPUs, Gemini 2.5 "thinking models," and Agent2Agent protocol at Cloud Next '25, challenging Microsoft and Amazon with a comprehensive AI strategy that enables multiple AI ...

At full scale, that’s 42.5 exaflops of raw compute — more than 24 times the processing power of the world’s current largest supercomputer, El Capitan. Google also says Ironwood doubles ...

Crucial Role In Supercomputer Development Two projects where AMD Research has played a crucial role for the chip designer are the U.S. Department of Energy’s Frontier and El Capitan exascale ...