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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...

Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

by Karl Freund | Oct 27, 2025 | In the News

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

Cerebras, Groq And SambaNova Line Up To Compete With Nvidia

by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2025 | In the News

While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

by Karl Freund | Oct 6, 2025 | In the News

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

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

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...

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IBM Helps Clients Prepare For A Quantum-Safe World

by Karl Freund | May 10, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM unveils new software to help clients protect data that someday could become threatened by quantum code-breakers. Quantum computing has the potential to create immense business benefits, and the social implications of quantum technologies are likely to be...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

by Karl Freund | November 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

by Karl Freund | December 19, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

BrainChip Readies 2nd Gen Platform For Power-Efficient Edge AI

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

The company’s event-based digital Neuromorphic IP can add efficient AI processing to SoCs. Edge AI is becoming a thing. Instead of using just an embedded microprocessor in edge applications and sending the data to a cloud for AI processing, many edge companies are...

Skipping Nvidia Left Amazon, Apple And Tesla Behind In AI

by Karl Freund | August 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Everyone thinks they are a comic. And everyone in big cap high tech thinks they can design better and/or cheaper AI chip alternatives to the industry-leader, Nvidia. Turns out, it’s simply not that easy. Apple and AWS have recently run aground in AI growth, and Tesla...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | October 16, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

by Karl Freund | February 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...