by Karl Freund | Sep 15, 2021 | In the News
The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a “Domain-Specific Architecture” strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...
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 | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News
Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...
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...
