by Karl Freund | Nov 20, 2022 | In the News
While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...
by Karl Freund | Nov 20, 2022 | In the News
The recent legislation creates an opportunity for IBM to play a pivotal role in a resurgent US semi industry. One day, soon I hope, I hope to write a story about IBM hardware without first correcting the misconception that the IT company has exited the hardware...
by Karl Freund | Nov 3, 2022 | Video
IBM had several important announcements at the IBM Quantum Summit in NYC on November 9, 2022. Karl Freund, founder of Cambrian AI, spoke with Blake Johnson, Distinguished Research Scientist at IBM Research, about why dealing with the massive error rates on quantum...
by Karl Freund | Oct 31, 2022 | Video
Chiplets will allow designers of complex semiconductors to get to market more quickly while lowering the cost of development. IBM Research has an extensive portfolio of technologies which are being brought to bear to tackle the design process and help IBM partners...
by Karl Freund | Oct 31, 2022 | Video
IBM is playing a large role in the Albany NanoTech Complex’s work to advance semiconductor technology in the USA. The CHIPS Act provides approximately $11B in tax incentives to spur development of advanced Semi technology. Mukesh Khare, VP of Hybrid Cloud, IBM...
by Karl Freund | Oct 29, 2022 | In the News
Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...
by Karl Freund | Oct 28, 2022 | In the News
Preparing for the next leap ahead. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) has been researching, developing, and shipping AI acceleration on their Snapdragon processors for the past decade. QTI’s state-of-the-art AI technology is born from smartphones. It leverages its...
by Karl Freund | Oct 19, 2022 | In the News
IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...
by Karl Freund | Oct 18, 2022 | In the News
Omniverse is not a toy; it enables digital twins of the real world as it exists, or as it will become. A few weeks ago I read an article on another media platform that asserted the need for the metaverse to embrace users beyond the creative teams of game developers...
by Karl Freund | Oct 10, 2022 | In the News
Quantum computing will bring unimagined innovations to the world when it finally arrives in full glory. Still, quantum remains in the research labs at companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. While companies and research institutions are investing billions of...