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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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Cerebras Systems Lays The Foundation For Huge Artificial Intelligence

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

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...

AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

by Karl Freund | February 26, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Is 3X More Efficient. What’s Missing?

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...

Esperanto Launches AI Accelerator With Over 1000 RISC-V Cores

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

After delays, the company now has working silicon back from TSMC, with high power efficiency for recommendation engines. Esperanto has announced more details at Hot Chips about its much-anticipated AI accelerator designed for power-efficient inference processing....

Flex Announces Liquid-Cooled Rack And Power Solutions At OCP Event

by Karl Freund | October 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Flex is expanding its role in the AI data center market with power, cooling and infrastructure solutions for the most demanding AI servers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the data center, creating opportunities to help manage the flow of power and cooling...

Chip Design Moves To The Cloud With Synopsys And Microsoft Azure

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

CEO's Aart de Geus and Satya Nadella have teamed up to create the industry's first on-demand EDA Software as a Service offering on Microsoft Azure. SYNOPSYS AND MICROSOFT Synopsys and MicrosoftThe two companies have collaborated to enable engineers to design chips...

If You Love AI, Do Not Miss NVIDIA GTC This Year!

by Karl Freund | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

by Karl Freund | March 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi takes the stage for the first time as CEO at SNUG, joined by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to discuss the companies’ collaboration and much more. I never knew how close Synopsys and Nvidia were! Apparently, according to Jensen, Synopsys delivered...

Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

by Karl Freund | May 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...

Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

by Karl Freund | October 31, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...