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Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

by Karl Freund | Jan 7, 2026 | In the News

Its got to be tough being an Nvidia competitor. You think you are close to catching up, perhaps even taking the lead, and then, bang! Nvidia brings out yet another latest and greatest. This year brings perhaps the biggest generational change ever witnessed in Nvidia,...

IBM Is Positioned To Lead In Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | Dec 23, 2025 | In the News

In the world of quantum computing, some of the world’s most important tech giants are striving to achieve a permanent advantage over classical computing, solving problems that simply cannot be solved using any number of classical computers. A bevy of start-ups are...

My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | Dec 3, 2025 | In the News

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...

Google AI Shot Heard Globally; Another Shoe Is About To Drop

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

The AI sphere is abuzz lately with news and rumors that the latest Google TPU, Ironwood, is powering the Gemini3 model, outpacing OpenAI on many metrics including intelligence and performance. Now, The Information, echoed by Bloomberg and CNBC, is reporting that...

AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

by Karl Freund | Nov 12, 2025 | In the News

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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The Cambrian AI Landscape: GROQ

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...

Two Can’t-Miss Events For AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | October 3, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

There are two conferences coming up that AI developers, executives, and investors should consider attending to get the latest from the industry’s leaders and challengers. I will attend both and I hope to see many of my readers there! Let’s take a closer look at what’s...

Microsoft Beats Google To The Punch (Bowl), Adds ChatGPT To Bing

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

That wasn’t that hard, now, was it? The Bingmasters blended the prose results from ChatGPT with advertising revenue generating web urls. I’m switching to Bing! For the last 2 months, everyone (well, investors and the media) has been speculating how ChatGPT could...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

by Karl Freund | October 17, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they 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...

Tenstorrent Shifts Leadership Roles

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Toronto-based startup is growing fast, swapping CEO and CTO roles, and laying out a compelling roadmap for AI and RISC-V. Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based startup who raised over $200M in venture funding at a $1B valuation in May, 2021, has now grown to over 280...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

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

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...

AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

by Karl Freund | November 12, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

by Karl Freund | January 7, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

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

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

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...