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The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

by Karl Freund | Oct 6, 2025 | In the News

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2025 | In the News

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...

Cadence Design And Nvidia Team To Create AI Data Center Digital Twin

by Karl Freund | Sep 19, 2025 | In the News

The data center business is in a bit of a panic. Demand is skyrocketing. Rack power requirements have increased from ~12KW per rack to over 125 KW in just the last year. Now they are preparing for a Gigawatt rack in the next two to three years (Nvidia Rubin Ultra)....

Nvidia Announces Rubin CPX GPU To Speed Long-Context AI

by Karl Freund | Sep 9, 2025 | In the News

In an industry-first, Nvidia has announced a new GPU, the Rubin CPX, to offload the compute-intensive “context processing” off another GPU. Yep, now, for some AI, you will need two GPUs to achieve maximize performance and profit. I would be surprised if the...

MLPerf 5.1: Nvidia Stays In The Lead While AMD Shows Off Its Latest

by Karl Freund | Sep 9, 2025 | In the News

The Nvidia juggernaught faces increased competition, but keeps innovating in silicon, software and systems design to keep its No. 1 position in the AI market. The industry standard MLCommons organization has just released the latest benchmarks for inference...

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Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

by Karl Freund | October 31, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...

A Look At Graphcore’s AI Software

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Software for new processor designs is critical to enabling application deployment and optimizing performance. UK-based startup Graphcore, the unicorn provider of silicon for application acceleration, places significant emphasis on software, dedicating roughly half its...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

by Karl Freund | October 6, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

by Karl Freund | November 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

As expected, Amazon AWS CEO Adam Selipsky announced updated AWS-engineered AI Training and Arm CPU chips to lower the cost of cloud services. But AWS has a problem: they have kept Nvidia at arm’s length to their detriment as Microsoft Azure increases market share. To...

Synopsys Has Helped Over 100 Clients Use AI To Accelerate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | February 7, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s DSO.AI is helping chip designers run more experiments, make smaller chips, and speed performance. Three years ago, EDA vendor Synopsys started helping clients use reinforcement learning, an AI technique, to accelerate and improve physical chip layout...

Qualcomm Readies CPUs For The Data Center Using Nvidia NVLink Fusion

by Karl Freund | September 5, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVLink has become a second, and perhaps deeper, moat for Nvidia, following its CUDA software tools and libraries. There's a reason the AI community prefers NVLink for connecting multiple GPUs: it is mind-blowingly fast, more than three times the performance of the...

Using A Digital Twin To Manage A Sustainable Flexible Data Center

by Karl Freund | July 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cadence’s acquisition of Future Facilities in 2022 opened the door to large data centers, and provides the company with the ability to manage power and cooling just when data centers need help the most as AI surges. Suppose you are running a data center, racks full of...

An Update On Intel And Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | February 21, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last week, I reported that Intel plans to switch its AI acceleration from Nervana technology to Habana Labs, which it acquired in December. Since Intel had planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions of Nervana’s second generation, this came as...

NVIDIA Is Not A Chip Company. It’s A Platform Company.

by Karl Freund | November 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA extends its lead in accelerated computing, announcing platforms for the metaverse, healthcare, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and data center security at the GTC Conference. NVIDIA, probably on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company, has been...

Esperanto Sees A Bright Future For RISC-V In AI And HPC

by Karl Freund | May 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is shipping its first-gen chip globally, with over 1000 cores at only 25 watts of power. Can it break into Generative AI? Suddenly, AI has become the hottest investment and cocktail party topic de jour. But the estimates for power consumption are pretty...