by Karl Freund | Jul 7, 2022 | In the News
For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...
by Karl Freund | Apr 12, 2022 | In the News
NVIDIA once again dominated a near-empty field of AI competitors in MLPerf Inference V2.0. Let’s explore why other chip companies don’t want to play. Industry standard benchmarks have been an important feature of the IT landscape for decades, with SPEC, TPC, and other...
by Karl Freund | Dec 1, 2021 | In the News
Intel Habana Labs and Graphcore add scale and software optimizations, while Google skips this round, choosing to put a stake in the ground for half-trillion parameter models. Every six months, the AI hardware community gathers virtually to strut their hardware stuff...
by Karl Freund | Oct 5, 2021 | In the News
Qualcomm not only bested the entire field for power efficiency, a 16-card server was the fastest tested. Qualcomm, perhaps best known for its leadership Snapdragon mobile platform, has further enhanced its AI bona fides with V1.1 MLPerf inference benchmark suite...
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...