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Using AI To Build Better Chips

With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...

IBM Invests In AI Hardware

While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...

AI Startup Tsavorite Emerges With $100M In Orders, 10X Performance

Another player has entered the AI semiconductor arena, and they’re not holding back. Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup, has come onto the scene with bold performance claims, just a week before the SC25 event in St. Louis, Missouri. While their...

The Sounds Of The AI Benchmark War: Crickets

NVIDIA once again dominated a near-empty field of AI competitors in MLPerf Inference V2.0. Let’s explore why other chip companies don’t want to play. Industry standard benchmarks have been an important feature of the IT landscape for decades, with SPEC, TPC, and other...

IBM Shares Quantum Use Cases In Dazzling New Book

The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) has published a beautiful book, good to read and also a substantial addition to any executive office: the fourth edition of The Quantum Decade. The 168-page tome written by over 70 professionals in every industry, clearly...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

Two Can’t-Miss Events For AI Hardware

There are two conferences coming up that AI developers, executives, and investors should consider attending to get the latest from the industry’s leaders and challengers. I will attend both and I hope to see many of my readers there! Let’s take a closer look at what’s...

Cerebras Announces Pay-As-You-Go AI Training On Cirrascale Cloud

Company claims it can train AI 8X faster than AWS at half the cost for large models.Cerebras is not your typical AI chip company. And thats a good thing. We already have a lot of knock-offs taking on NVIDIA, and they all seem to do a good job of knocking only...

Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...

IBM Research Innovates “Serverless” Approach To Quantum

Quantum computing promises near-miraculous performance, but it comes with a lot of caveats. Most importantly, the problem being solved must be amenable to expression into the quantum “circuits” that can run on todays hardware. But what if only parts of the problem fit...