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 | 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 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor
And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...
by Karl Freund | Dec 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor
When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...
by Karl Freund | Dec 2, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, DataCenter AI, In the News, Semiconductor
Today AMD announced its first data center GPU to compete in high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Last year, the company announced that it would bifurcate its GPU technology into two architectures: CDNA for computation and RDNA for...
by Karl Freund | Oct 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor
Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...
