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...
by Karl Freund | Mar 15, 2021 | In the News
While Gigabyte builds EPYC Server with Qualcomm AI Chips! Honestly, I struggled to decide which of these two announcements deserves headline status. Both are pretty exciting. One extends AMD’s leadership over Intel for server CPUs, and the other combines these fast...
by Karl Freund | Mar 13, 2021 | Video
Jonathan Ross co-founded Groq after he left Google, where he began the project to create the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). In this video, he talks about a few clients who are evaluating the Groq streaming processor for AI as well as non-AI...
by Karl Freund | Mar 10, 2021 | In the News
I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...
by Karl Freund | Mar 10, 2021 | In the News
IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...
by Karl Freund | Mar 4, 2021 | In the News
Can the mobile chip giant finally break into the data center? Qualcomm began sampling the Cloud AI100 to select data center customers last quarter. The performance looks to be promising, based on the limited benchmarks we have seen, and the power efficiency for...
by Karl Freund | Feb 26, 2021 | In the News
For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...
by Karl Freund | Feb 25, 2021 | In the News
Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...
by Karl Freund | Feb 24, 2021 | In the News
This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...
by Karl Freund | Feb 23, 2021 | In the News
NVIDIA is the 800 lb. gorilla in the AI hardware space. The company invests heavily in silicon, systems, and software to maintain that leadership position. This blog is an excerpt from the AI Competitive Landscape Report which is available to subscribers. Early...
