by Karl Freund | Feb 25, 2022 | In the News
This announcement will have a long-lasting impact on the entire semiconductor industry: Intel must fabricate chips for its competitors to grow its foundry business, and is investing in the emerging RISC-V market as the catalyst. Intel competitors Andes Technology,...
by Karl Freund | Feb 25, 2022 | In the News
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...
by Karl Freund | Feb 9, 2022 | Video
Intel has announced it is joining RISC-V, and has created a $1B Innovation Fund to help jump-start the RISC-V ecosystem. Now, Intel competitors will be motivated to consider Intel Foundry Services as a Fab partner. Esperanto’s Dave Ditzel and Intel’s Bob...
by Karl Freund | Feb 8, 2022 | In the News
There are big implications, for both companies, beyond just bragging rights. Facebook, I mean Meta, has always been one of the industry leaders when it comes to AI research and deployment. The company processes hundreds of trillions (yes, trillions with a “T”) of...
by Karl Freund | Feb 8, 2022 | In the News
The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...