by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2025 | In the News
Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...
by Karl Freund | Sep 19, 2025 | In the News
The data center business is in a bit of a panic. Demand is skyrocketing. Rack power requirements have increased from ~12KW per rack to over 125 KW in just the last year. Now they are preparing for a Gigawatt rack in the next two to three years (Nvidia Rubin Ultra)....
by Karl Freund | Sep 9, 2025 | In the News
In an industry-first, Nvidia has announced a new GPU, the Rubin CPX, to offload the compute-intensive “context processing” off another GPU. Yep, now, for some AI, you will need two GPUs to achieve maximize performance and profit. I would be surprised if the...
by Karl Freund | Sep 9, 2025 | In the News
The Nvidia juggernaught faces increased competition, but keeps innovating in silicon, software and systems design to keep its No. 1 position in the AI market. The industry standard MLCommons organization has just released the latest benchmarks for inference...
by Karl Freund | Sep 5, 2025 | In the News
The latest TPU and the upcoming Ironwood supercomputer were just the start Google is taking the next step in its quest to become a serious challenger to Nvidia GPUs. As I recently noted in my post on CSP silicon costs and failures, Google is the exception. Google...
by Karl Freund | Sep 5, 2025 | In the News
NVLink has become a second, and perhaps deeper, moat for Nvidia, following its CUDA software tools and libraries. There’s a reason the AI community prefers NVLink for connecting multiple GPUs: it is mind-blowingly fast, more than three times the performance of...
by Karl Freund | Aug 25, 2025 | In the News
Nvidia focuses on maximum performance and efficiency. We’ve all heard the predictions: the Next Big Thing will be “Physical AI” (Nvidia) or “Embodied AI” (Qualcomm). Jensen Huang has predicted that in a decade, there will be more robots than humans on Earth. These...
by Karl Freund | Aug 23, 2025 | In the News
Its Hard to Start Over. But It is Time… From Forbes to Substack. I’ve been publishing on Forbes for over a decade, focusing primarily on AI Hardware as an Industry Analyst. My company is Cambrian-AI Research, which I founded after leaving Moor Insights and Strategy in...
by Karl Freund | Aug 22, 2025 | In the News
The annual HotChips conference starts this Sunday, Aug. 24, in San Francisco. Nvidia is scheduled to present six sessions covering topics of interest to AI data center users and operators and will make several key announcements I’ll cover in this article. (Like most...
by Karl Freund | Aug 11, 2025 | In the News
Everyone thinks they are a comic. And everyone in big cap high tech thinks they can design better and/or cheaper AI chip alternatives to the industry-leader, Nvidia. Turns out, it’s simply not that easy. Apple and AWS have recently run aground in AI growth, and Tesla...
