by Karl Freund | Aug 9, 2024 | In the News
The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....
by Karl Freund | Feb 13, 2024 | In the News
2/15: Updated to include Tenstorrent While the Nvidia AI story has rightly captivated investor attention, competitors are readying alternatives. How might AMD, Intel, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Groq, D-Matrix and all the Cloud Service Providers impact the market? As...
by Karl Freund | Nov 20, 2023 | In the News
This year’s event was as much about AI as it was about HPC. The only booths not talking about AI were, well, nobody. Everyone was touting the miracles of AI, from CPUs to accelerators to system companies to networking vendors to storage to clouds to water cooling...
by Karl Freund | Sep 14, 2021 | In the News
The Summit is full of newsworthy announcements this week! I present a look back to help kick off the event… Today I present my annual AI industry overview at the AI Hardware Summit. This is the fourth annual event with nearly all the AI hardware vendors talking...
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...
