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Cerebras AI Lands A Whale As It Prepares To Go Public

by Karl Freund | Jan 15, 2026 | In the News

Cerebras, famous for being the only AI company with a full wafer-scale chip, has landed OpenAI, its first major US-based hyperscaler. Prior to this deal, Cerebras has been successful securing investments and system commitments from a relatively small number of...

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...

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Intel To Separate Programmable Solutions Group (PSG); IPO Seen In Next 2-3 Years

by Karl Freund | October 3, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Thanks to Microsoft’s appetite for FPGAs in the data center, the programmable hardware chips were a hot story in 2015. So, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7B. Then AMD acquired Altera’s biggest competitor, Xilinx, in 2022 for a whopping $50B. Now, unsurprisingly, Intel...

NIST Ratifies Quantum Safe Algorithms Co-Developed By IBM Research

by Karl Freund | August 21, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Arm Adds More AI Firepower

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As I covered in a recent article on the status of startups building chips for AI, the AI accelerator market will become quite crowded over the next 12-18 months. Not to be outdone, Arm is now extending its neural network processor family, adding logic designs for...

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...

AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

by Karl Freund | November 12, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

by Karl Freund | November 26, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

Esperanto Joins The Rush To Generative AI With A New Appliance

by Karl Freund | September 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is also working on its next generation chip which will add HPC features and higher performance with HBM instead of today’s DRAM memory. Esperanto, the company with a chip containing over 1000 cores of RISC-V, has previewed a new appliance for running...

SiFive Lands $175M Financing

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

NVIDIA Keeps The Performance Crown For AI Inference For The 6th Time In A Row

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

In The Data Center And On The Edge, the bottom line is that the H100 (Hopper-based) GPU is up to four times faster than the NVIDIA A100 on the newly released MLPerf V2.1 benchmark suite. The A100 retains leadership in many benchmarks versus other available products...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

by Karl Freund | October 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...