by Karl Freund | Aug 9, 2024 | In the News
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....
by Karl Freund | Jul 23, 2024 | In the News
Nvidia has fleshed out a complete software stack to ease custom model development and deployment for enterprises. Is this AI Nervana? And can AMD and Intel compete with this? In order for enterprises to adopt AI, its got to become a lot easier and more affordable....
by Karl Freund | Jul 1, 2024 | In the News
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...
by Karl Freund | Jun 18, 2024 | In the News
Most of the investment buzz in AI hardware concentrates on the amazing accelerator chips that crunch the math required for neural networks, like Nvidia’s GPUs. But what about the rest of the story? CPUs and NICs that pre- and post-process the query add significant...
by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News
2nm is the Next Big Thing in chip production, and Synopsys design tools and IP are now ready for production work and tape-outs on Samsung’s latest fab. Samsung has its eyes on the prize, hoping to secure more design wins as it competes with TSMC for the semiconductor...
by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News
While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...
