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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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Tenstorrent Opens Office In Japan To Capitalize On RISC-V + AI

by Karl Freund | March 14, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Is the company setting up the first RISC-V HPC win? Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based semiconductor company, now led by the super-star chip designer Jim Keller, has just opened a new office in Japan. So, as many other AI startups are struggling, Tenstorrent is doubling...

Synopsys Certifies AI-Lead Design And IP Solutions For Samsung’s 2nm

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

2nm is the Next Big Thing in chip production, and Synopsys design tools and IP are now ready for production work and tape-outs on Samsung’s latest fab. Samsung has its eyes on the prize, hoping to secure more design wins as it competes with TSMC for the semiconductor...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

by Karl Freund | April 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Why Nvidia Is Entering The $30B Market For Custom Chips

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

Nvidia’s largest customers (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI) are developing AI chips that compete with Nvidia, presenting a potential long-term threat to the AI leader. Jensen’s response? “We can help you do that.” Warning: this blog contains...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

by Karl Freund | February 8, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...

AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | August 28, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

by Karl Freund | September 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

Cerebras Announces Pay-As-You-Go AI Training On Cirrascale Cloud

by Karl Freund | December 13, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company claims it can train AI 8X faster than AWS at half the cost for large models.Cerebras is not your typical AI chip company. And thats a good thing. We already have a lot of knock-offs taking on NVIDIA, and they all seem to do a good job of knocking only...

Cadence AI Can Increase Chip Design Quality And Chip Designer Productivity Over 1000%

by Karl Freund | June 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

EDA company’s clients have finished hundreds of new tapeouts using Cadence Cerebrus AI to speed development and make chips that run faster, use less energy, and cost less. For Cadence, AI is all about increasing engineering teams’ productivity, speeding higher...

IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

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

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...