by Karl Freund | Dec 20, 2023 | Video
In this installment of the Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research provide discuss the big moments and the state of AI computing that has hyper-charged the semiconductor industry and made an “AI giant” of...
by Karl Freund | Dec 19, 2023 | In the News
Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...
by Karl Freund | Dec 15, 2023 | In the News
Intel has a multi-prong AI strategy. The company announced the AI PC and Intel Xeon Gen5 with excellent AI performance and TCO. Intel announced new products for desktops and servers, and the focus for both was AI, where Intel has a commanding lead over the...
by Karl Freund | Dec 13, 2023 | In the News
At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...
by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2023 | In the News
Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...