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Nvidia GTC-DC Event Highlights AI, Quantum, And 6G Advances

by Karl Freund | Oct 28, 2025 | In the News

Nvidia GTC has become not only a key event for AI but has also branched out to Asia, Europe, and Washington, DC to keep developers and buyers up to date on the latest advances in high-performance computing technology. This year's DC event, which kicked off with a...

Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

by Karl Freund | Oct 27, 2025 | In the News

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

Cerebras, Groq And SambaNova Line Up To Compete With Nvidia

by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2025 | In the News

While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...

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...

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NVIDIA GTC ’20 Could Be Massive

by Karl Freund | March 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference, everyone is anxious to see what CEO Jensen Huang has up his trademark black leather sleeves. I have no idea, but as usual, I have an opinion. An intro to GTC GTC is NVIDIA’s partners’ big annual opportunity to...

Who Is The Leader In AI Hardware?

by Karl Freund | November 5, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

A few months ago, I published a blog that highlighted Qualcomm’s plans to enter the data center market with the Cloud AI100 chip sometime next year. While preparing the blog, our founder and principal analyst, Patrick Moorhead, called to point out that Qualcomm ,...

AI Startup MosaicML Comes Out Of Stealth To Aid AI Developers

by Karl Freund | October 13, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Naveen Rao, ex-Nervana and Intel, leads the new company focused on improving the efficiency of AI Training Training a deep neural network takes a lot of computational horsepower. Billions of trillions of multiplications and additions calculate “weights” which are...

NIST Ratifies Quantum Safe Algorithms Co-Developed By IBM Research

by Karl Freund | August 21, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed three algorithms co-developed by IBM Research, which are used to protect sensitive infrastructure and data from attacks by bad actors using Quantum Computers to break the existing encryption. As...

IBM Research Innovates “Serverless” Approach To Quantum

by Karl Freund | September 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Quantum computing promises near-miraculous performance, but it comes with a lot of caveats. Most importantly, the problem being solved must be amenable to expression into the quantum “circuits” that can run on todays hardware. But what if only parts of the problem fit...

Cerebras Lands Huge AI Deal: A 36 Exaflop Monster

by Karl Freund | July 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Wafer-Scale Engine company has been working for 8 years to break into the top tier of AI computing. This deal might just assure its success. We have been watching Cerebras for a long time, from its launch of the first wafer-scale engine for AI to its recent...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

by Karl Freund | April 5, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

Synopsys Laps Competition With Second Generation AI

by Karl Freund | August 23, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

EDA Leader Synopsys paints path to Software-Designed Si Last year, EDA leader Synopsys announced it had developed an AI chip design instrument called DSO.ai that could produce faster, lower cost, and more power-efficient chips by using an AI to figure out how to best...

Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

by Karl Freund | October 22, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

by Karl Freund | February 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...