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What’s Next For On-Device AI? Ask Qualcomm

Qualcomm held a one day analyst event in San Diego updating us all on their AI research. Pretty amazing stuff, but the big news is yet to come with a new Oryon-based Snapdragon expected this Fall, and perhaps a new Cloud AI 100 next year. Qualcomm was pretty confident...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

Qualcomm Cloud AI100 Ultra: 4 Times The Performance For Large Models

We haven't heard from Qualcomm in a while regarding their power-efficient data center inference accelerator, which still holds the record for power efficiency, according to MLCommons benchmarking. Now Qualcomm has announced a new “Ultra” version that delivers four...

Could AI Help Solve The Global Chip Shortage?

In part, yes. We could tap into unused manufacturing capacity using AI, and Synopsys believes it has the AI that could do it. Today’s chip shortage is holding back global economic growth, fueling inflation, and making life difficult for consumers and businesses alike....

Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One. Why? Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

Cerebras Gets Into The Inference Market With A Bang

Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine has only been used for AI training, but new software enables leadership inference processing performance and costs. Should Nvidia be afraid? As Cerebras prepares to go public, it has expanded its target markets and competitive stance by...