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...
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 | 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 | Oct 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News
The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...
