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AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

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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Qualcomm Makes Its Push For PC Relevance, Leading With AI

Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Demands More Hardware, Not Less

Discussions about Deep Seek’s impact on Nvidia is everywhere. Yesterday, I heard an investor on CNBC’s "Fast Money" program pontificate that Deep Seek and its disruptive technology mean that “Nobody needs an Nvidia H100 anymore,” much less a Blackwell. I struggle to...

NIST Ratifies Quantum Safe Algorithms Co-Developed By IBM Research

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...

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...

Cerebras Systems Lays The Foundation For Huge Artificial Intelligence

Startup announces technology to enable a 120-trillion-parameter model on the way to brain-scale AI. OK, I thought I was done with preparing for HotChips, having prepared six blogs and three research papers. I was ready to take a few days off. Nonetheless, I decided to...

NVIDIA Now Offers A Comprehensive Platform For Enterprise AI

Enterprises have been slow to adopt AI in a big way. Recent forecasts predict that is about to change, and NVIDIA wants to reap the benefits. Enterprise IT organizations can easily be put off by the amount of new technology they will have to master in order to adopt...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

If The Arm Deal Fails, NVIDIA Is Fine, But Arm May Struggle

European regulators are again expressing concerns about the impact on competition. But the alternatives for Arm could be worse. NVIDIA does not need to acquire Arm to keep growing like a weed. The acquisition would add to NVIDIA’s revenue and growth, to be sure, but...

Does NVIDIA Selene Form A Wider Moat Than CUDA?

The annual International Supercomputer Conference (ISC), held virtually this year, kicked off today. Not surprisingly, NVIDIA has already made a few announcements of note. Especially of interest to me was the announcement of Selene, NVIDIA’s in-house 1+ Exaflop AI...