by Karl Freund | Jul 11, 2025 | In the News
While GPU performance has been the focus in data centers over the last few years, the performance of fabrics has become a key enabler or bottleneck in achieving the throughput and latency required to create and deliver artificial intelligence at scale. Nvidia’s...
by Karl Freund | Jul 10, 2025 | In the News
The AI world continues to evolve rapidly, especially since the introduction of DeepSeek and its followers. Many have concluded that enterprises don’t really need the large, expensive AI models touted by OpenAI, Meta, and Google, and are focusing instead on...
by Karl Freund | Jun 17, 2025 | In the News
Nvidia recently announced two new cloud initiatives. First, the company announced DGX Cloud Lepton, designed to connect artificial intelligence developers with Nvidia’s wide network of cloud providers. Second, Nvidia announced a new cloud service, the Industrial AI...
by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2025 | In the News
AMD held their now-annual Advancing AI event today in Silicon Valley, with new GPUs, new networking, new software, and even a rack-scale architecture for 2026/27 to better compete with the Nvidia NVL72 that is taking the AI world by storm. Let’s dive in! Net-Net...
by Karl Freund | Jun 4, 2025 | In the News
As you AI pros know, the 125-member MLCommons organization alternates training and inference benchmarks every three months. This time around, its all about training, which remains the largest AI hardware market, although not by much as inference drives more growth as...
by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News
While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...
by Karl Freund | May 7, 2025 | In the News
Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...
by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News
The US Semiconductor industry desperately needs to rebuild the country’s ability to produce the advanced chips that are the cornerstone of AI and every electronic device you can imagine. Most of those chips are built today in Taiwan by TSMC. Merely the thought of any...
by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News
Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...
by Karl Freund | Apr 3, 2025 | In the News
After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...