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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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AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | December 6, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The hardware looks quite capable, but the software optimization story has a long way to go to get close to Nvidia. But given the current demand/supply imbalance, I suspect AMD can sell all they can make. AMD launched the MI300 in San Jose to an anxious audience of...

IBM Research Says Analog AI Will Be 100X More Efficient. Yes, 100X.

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

IBM AI Hardware Research Center has delivered significant digital AI logic, and now turns their attention to solving AI problems in an entirely new way. Gary Fritz, Cambrian-AI Research Analyst, contributed to this article. AI is showing up in nearly every aspect of...

Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Hyundai And Samsung Lead $100M Investment Round In Tenstorrent

by Karl Freund | August 2, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Partners make great investors because their intent is to secure influence and gain access to advanced technology. Hyundai Motor Group and the Samsung Catalyst Fund have co-led a $100M investment in Tenstorrent, and both companies plan to use Tenstorrent’ tech. I love...

Cerebras Announces Pay-As-You-Go AI Training On Cirrascale Cloud

by Karl Freund | December 13, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company claims it can train AI 8X faster than AWS at half the cost for large models.Cerebras is not your typical AI chip company. And thats a good thing. We already have a lot of knock-offs taking on NVIDIA, and they all seem to do a good job of knocking only...

IBM Research and NeuReality Announce Partnership For AI

by Karl Freund | November 2, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NeuReality is the first Licensee of IBM’s reduced-precision core for AI IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms. IBM and...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | June 20, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

MLPerf Shows AMD Catching Up With Nvidia’s Older H200 GPU

by Karl Freund | June 4, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

As you AI pros know, the 125-member MLCommons organization alternates training and inference benchmarks every three months. This time around, its all about training, which remains the largest AI hardware market, although not by much as inference drives more growth as...

Flex Sees Opportunities In The New AI Data Center

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

Data center cooling is hot. At least it’s becoming a hot market, with industry projections likely to increase as the Nvidia Blackwell GPU push increases the percentage of silicon that requires liquid cooling. Goldman Sachs estimates the server cooling market is...