by Karl Freund | Jun 2, 2021 | In the News
Celebrating its two-year anniversary, the Center announces innovative AI acceleration technologies along with nearly tripling its cadre of memberships. The IBM Research AI Hardware Center is the nexus of a group of academic and industry leaders contributing to the...
by Karl Freund | Jun 1, 2021 | In the News
Company’s Computex announcements also expand NVIDIA Certified program to DPU and Arm NVIDIA made several announcements this week in Taiwan, launching new software and services to help enterprises enter the age of AI. NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing,...
by Karl Freund | May 20, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor
New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...
by Karl Freund | May 11, 2021 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
AI pervades every session at the annual IBM event. The virtual event of “All Things IBM” has become “All Things AI”, from chips to software, Watson to SAP, and companies including SalesForce, Siemens, Natwest, Dow and others. Honestly, if I could search the Think...
by Karl Freund | Apr 21, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor
The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...
by Karl Freund | Apr 14, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...
