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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...

AI Startup Tsavorite Emerges With $100M In Orders, 10X Performance

by Karl Freund | Nov 10, 2025 | In the News

Another player has entered the AI semiconductor arena, and they’re not holding back. Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup, has come onto the scene with bold performance claims, just a week before the SC25 event in St. Louis, Missouri. While their...

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...

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My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

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...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: Solid Progress, Aggressive Goals

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM AI acceleration technologies are becoming so good, most AI chip companies would be better off licensing core AI tech from IBM. Creating and using massive AI networks is quickly becoming unaffordable: Open.AI’s GPT-3 cost over $12M to train using thousands of GPU’s...

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

by Karl Freund | November 25, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Sounds Of The AI Benchmark War: Crickets

by Karl Freund | April 12, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA once again dominated a near-empty field of AI competitors in MLPerf Inference V2.0. Let’s explore why other chip companies don’t want to play. Industry standard benchmarks have been an important feature of the IT landscape for decades, with SPEC, TPC, and other...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...

IBM Research Secures Future Safe From Quantum Attacks

by Karl Freund | October 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Quantum computing will bring unimagined innovations to the world when it finally arrives in full glory. Still, quantum remains in the research labs at companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. While companies and research institutions are investing billions of...

Is Intel Turning The Corner?

by Karl Freund | June 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel stock is up 35% in the last three weeks on a string of good news. Is there more to come? Semiconductors have been one of the fastest growing segments on Wall Street this year. Intel has quietly recovered its losses over the last year, with the bulk of the...

Intel Innovation: AI Everywhere

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

That phrase has dual meanings: AI will run everywhere, and AI was everywhere at the event. Pat Gelsinger’s keynote made it clear where Intel plans to innovate: AI. No surprise to anyone with a pulse, to be sure, but his enthusiasm was infectious. Every Intel employee...