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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...

AI Startup Tsavorite Emerges With $100M In Orders, 10X Performance

by Karl Freund | Nov 10, 2025 | In the News

Another player has entered the AI semiconductor arena, and they’re not holding back. Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup, has come onto the scene with bold performance claims, just a week before the SC25 event in St. Louis, Missouri. While their...

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...

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IBM Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

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...

NVIDIA Acquires Bright Computing For Cluster Management

by Karl Freund | January 24, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Privately-held Bright is a favorite of HPC users, and will reinforce NVIDIA’s strategy of providing full-stack solutions for Enterprise HPC and AI. Bright Computing has been around since 2009, providing large-scale cluster management for HPC installations. The...

Intel Launches Gaudi 3 With Impressive Gen-AI Performance

by Karl Freund | April 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel established itself as a competitive alternative to the Nvidia H100, joining AMD in offering a platform that can run the generative AI models more cost-effectively. Intel took the covers off the new Gaudi-3 AI accelerator this week at the annual Intel Vision...

The NewReality: Fast Inference Processing For 90% Less?

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

Most of the investment buzz in AI hardware concentrates on the amazing accelerator chips that crunch the math required for neural networks, like Nvidia’s GPUs. But what about the rest of the story? CPUs and NICs that pre- and post-process the query add significant...

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...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

by Karl Freund | February 24, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again.

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia did not submit results for Blackwell either, as it wasn’t ready when results had to be submitted, but still won the race with the Hopper GPU by up to 4X. Too bad for AMD, as they probably have the most to gain by publishing results for the MI300, even if Hopper...

Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

by Karl Freund | June 3, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia broadens its reach to ensure that AI delivers on its promises. AMD is building faster chips, faster. The Market appears to prefers the former: Nvidia is up nearly 5%, while AMD is down ~2.5% today. Which is better? Well Elon Musk said Sunday on X that his xAI...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

by Karl Freund | December 10, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...