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 22, 2021 | Video
Andrew Richards discusses how his company uses SYCL-based tools to help developers Write-Once, Run-Anywhere. It is a familiar promise to developers, but hard to do. More Cambrian-AI Visions Video Interviews Interview with Steve Oberlin, NVIDIA CTO Karl discusses AI...
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 15, 2021 | Video
Karl discusses AI at NVIDIA with Steve Oberlin, CTO of data center acceleration. Steve discusses the AI journey at NVIDIA, and the culture fostered by CEO Jensen Huang to always strive for the “speed of light”. More Cambrian-AI Visions Video Interviews...
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...
by Karl Freund | Apr 12, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
It is all about tighter integration with memory, CPUs, and accelerators for trillion-parameter AI models. For 12 years, NVIDIA has used its Spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to amaze its customers and investors with new GPUs for graphics and application...
by Karl Freund | Apr 7, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...
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 | Mar 23, 2021 | In the News
New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...
by Karl Freund | Mar 19, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News
As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...
