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My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

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AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

Synopsys.ai: New AI Solutions Across The Entire Chip Development Workflow

Synopsys has added AI-based Verification and Test to its already-successful Design solution, DSO.ai, with more to come. Three years ago, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution provider Synopsys took the bold step to add reinforcement learning to its chip design...

Who Wins If The New Biden AI Export Rules Stand?

While Nvidia and the European Union have expressed their displeasure with the latest salvo of AI export restrictions from the Biden administration, a few companies and countries could actually benefit from them. But the industry as a whole will suffer, and so will...

Intel Challenges AMD And NVIDIA With New AI Technologies Amid Renewed Developer Commitments

Upcoming CPU and GPU technologies require increased support for the development community, including eleven new development partners and new tooling. Concurrently, and not coincidently, Amazon announces availability of Intel Habana Gaudi on AWS. In 1997, Pat...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

How Might OpenAI Outcomes Impact Nvidia, AMD, Intel And Microsoft?

The story keeps changing, but one thing is for sure. There will be one more AI vendor who will need tens of thousands of new GPUs. As the Loony Tunes saga continues, thanks to the OpenAI board of directors (”Th.. Th.. Th.. That’s all, Folks!”), a ton of meetings in...

Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again.

Nvidia did not submit results for Blackwell either, as it wasn’t ready when results had to be submitted, but still won the race with the Hopper GPU by up to 4X. Too bad for AMD, as they probably have the most to gain by publishing results for the MI300, even if Hopper...

Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

Graphcore, a UK-based startup, launched its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018. Today it introduced its second-generation product for AI, a massively parallel chip with 59.4 billion transistors that delivers some 250 Trillion...

Tenstorrent Could Reshape The AI And CPU Competitive Landscape

Now led by Jim Keller, the company has built a new leadership team and a new strategy. It has tremendous potential. Now it must execute. Introduction It is hard to believe the difference a year makes. In 2021, there were over 100 public and venture-backed startups...

Eight Takeaways From NVIDIA GTC

New Hopper GPU, Grace Superchips, New OGX Server for Omniverse, Faster networking, New DGX Servers & Pods, Enterprise AI Software, 60 updated SDKs, Next-Gen Hyperion Drive, Omniverse Cloud, ... I could go on and on! But neither of us has the time, so... GTC always...