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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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BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge

by Karl Freund | August 22, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Unlike in image processing or large language models, few AI startups are focused on sequential data processing, which includes video processing and time-series analysis. BrainChip is just fine with that. With all the buzz around LLM generative AI, it is understandable...

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...

Could AI Help Solve The Global Chip Shortage?

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

In part, yes. We could tap into unused manufacturing capacity using AI, and Synopsys believes it has the AI that could do it. Today’s chip shortage is holding back global economic growth, fueling inflation, and making life difficult for consumers and businesses alike....

NVIDIA Is Not A Chip Company. It’s A Platform Company.

by Karl Freund | November 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA extends its lead in accelerated computing, announcing platforms for the metaverse, healthcare, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and data center security at the GTC Conference. NVIDIA, probably on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company, has been...

Cerebras Lands Huge AI Deal: A 36 Exaflop Monster

by Karl Freund | July 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Wafer-Scale Engine company has been working for 8 years to break into the top tier of AI computing. This deal might just assure its success. We have been watching Cerebras for a long time, from its launch of the first wafer-scale engine for AI to its recent...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

by Karl Freund | October 15, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

Pat Gelsinger’s First Big Bet

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

New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...

Meta Enters The Token Business, Powered By Nvidia, Cerebras And Groq

by Karl Freund | April 29, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

by Karl Freund | August 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is emerging as a serious challenger to current CPUs based on...

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

by Karl Freund | October 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...