Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2022. Read them in this 14th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Technology Advancements in 2022
By Rado
Danilak, CEO Tachyum
Artificial Intelligence will once
again be at the forefront of technology progression in 2022. Below are a few of
my predictions for next year.
1. A supercomputer
with higher capacity and speed than the human brain will be built in 2022
The Slovak Republic with the I4DI consortium will build a 64 AI
Exaflop supercomputer in 2022 (that's 64 billion, billion AI operations per second).
Slovakia's NSCC (National Super Computing Center) located in Bratislava will
deliver human brain-scale supercomputing. Almost a dozen other EU countries are
watching this project closely, with interest in replicating the supercomputer,
if successful.
2. Universal
processors will be available in 2022, and they will change computing forever
Universal Processors will provide hyperscale data centers with
the ability to switch seamlessly between normal data center workloads and AI
workloads, while delivering industry-leading performance in both regimes of
computing. This capability obviates the need for heterogeneous data center architectures,
comprised of regular servers for normal workloads, and specialized AI
processors, such as NVidia provides, for AI workloads. A typical Facebook data
center provisions their number of servers for peak customer demand. At night,
they turn off more than 50% of those servers to save power. For example, with Tachyum's
Prodigy processor, idle servers at their Prineville site can be powered up at
night to deliver more than 1 AI Zettaflops of computing resources. This
represents a major inflection point for the data center industry, and in the
democratization of AI.
3.
Apple laptops and other laptops will start transitioning away from Intel
processors
Intel is still struggling with chip fabrication and chronic
processor performance plateau issues. Meanwhile, AMD products are outperforming
Intel offerings, and several innovative new processor products are coming to
market. With market pressure from all sides, Intel processors will continue to
lose ground, even in Apple laptops.
4. The race
to superhuman AI between superpowers will be decided by end of 2022
2022 will usher in a new
era in computing unifying normal compute workloads with AI, in a single,
homogeneous processor architecture. This process will instantiate a completely
new concept of Location Aware Computing. Any way you slice it, the explosive growth
in AI technology means that consumers, corporations, and government agencies
will soon be able exploit highly advanced AI systems, in order to create life
experiences, we can only dream of today. Human brain-scale computing is now
looming on the horizon, and it will change your life more than electricity.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
"Rado" Danilak has over 25 years of industry experience and
over 100 patents designing state-of-the-art processing systems. In 2016 he
founded Tachyum to disrupt markets by solving the processing performance
plateau of nanometer class chips. Rado was founder and CEO of Skyera, a
supplier of ultra-dense solid-state storage systems, acquired by WD in 2014. As
CEO he won the 2013 Gold Tech Awards Circle for Emerging Company Executive of
the Year. At Wave Computing, Rado architected the 10GHz Processing Element of
deep learning DPU. Rado was cofounder and CTO of SandForce acquired by LSI in
2011 for $377M. Rado pioneered enterprise and consumer MLC flash controllers
and solved endurance limited by device physics. He was a chipset and GPU
architect at nVidia, a CPU architect at Nishan Systems and Toshiba, and chief
architect of 64b x86 CPU at Gizmo Tech.