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AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

With so much focus on inference processing, it is easy to overlook the AI training market, which continues to drive gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The latest benchmarks show that the training of AI models, an immense investment in power and compute, continues to...

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SiFive Lands $175M Financing

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

Normally, an AI Industry Analyst like myself would not take notice of a new version of Ethernet; its IP is fairly staid technology these days. But now the demands of high performance AI has changed the game, again. CPU, Accelerators, and Switch vendors depend on...

Is The AMD GPU Better Than We Thought For AI?

MosaicML, just acquired by DataBricks for $1.3B, published some interesting benchmarks for training LLMs on the AMD MI250 GPU, and said it is ~80% as fast as an NVIDIA A100. Did the world just change? To be brutally honest, everyone wants to see a fight, between AMD...

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

SiMa.ai Creates Drag-And-Drop Platform For Building AI Workflows

Assuming it is the software that enables or prevents the adoption of a new AI chip, a reasonable assumption, SiMa has created a new tool called Palette Edgematic to simplify AI solution creation greatly. And build demand for their silicon. As everyone says, “It’s the...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

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...

Intel, GraphCore And Groq: Let The AI Cambrian Explosion Begin

As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

Two industry events have provided the stage for NVIDIA to share their plans for a proprietary Arm CPU based product line that we believe will transform their own business and the AI/HPC industry landscape. NVIDIA used the annual Computex and International Super...

Nvidia Ups Its Robotics Game With Blackwell-Based Jetson Thor

Nvidia focuses on maximum performance and efficiency. We’ve all heard the predictions: the Next Big Thing will be “Physical AI” (Nvidia) or “Embodied AI” (Qualcomm). Jensen Huang has predicted that in a decade, there will be more robots than humans on Earth. These...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...