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Agentic AI Reshapes Nvidia Strategy Beyond GPUs At GTC

by Karl Freund | Mar 23, 2026 | In the News

Donning his signature black leather jacket, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang once again wowed his fans, totaling over 30,000 in the San Jose’s SAP Arena, with dazzling technology and extreme claims, including the company’s first post-GPU product. Agentic AI took...

Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | Feb 24, 2026 | In the News

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | Feb 10, 2026 | In the News

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...

Cadence Is Leading The Audio Revolution With AI Technology

by Karl Freund | Jan 26, 2026 | In the News

Many analysts like to say that AI will become pervasive, applied to just about every aspect of computing to improve product quality, increase productivity, increase revenues, and lower costs. While investors remain alert for any signs that the bubble is about to...

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...

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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...

Intel Creates $1B Innovation Fund To Grow RISC-V Market (And Attract New Foundry Customers)

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

This announcement will have a long-lasting impact on the entire semiconductor industry: Intel must fabricate chips for its competitors to grow its foundry business, and is investing in the emerging RISC-V market as the catalyst. Intel competitors Andes Technology,...

NVIDIA Needed A CPU, But Did It Need To Buy Arm To Get One?

by Karl Freund | September 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

I often opine that NVIDIA needs a data center-class CPU to compete with Intel and AMD, both of whom have used tightly-coupled CPU/GPU technology to win the first three U.S. exascale supercomputer deals. Connecting massive GPUs to fast CPUs over a painfully slow PCIe...

NVIDIA Loses The AI Performance Crown, At Least For Now

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

For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...

Cerebras Partners With Qualcomm, Launches 3rd-Gen Wafer-Scale AI

by Karl Freund | March 13, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The newest system from Cerebras can handle multi-trillion parameter generative AI problems at twice the performance of its predecessor, while partnering with Qualcomm will help them cut inference processing costs by 10X. Cerebras Systems, the innovative startup who’s...

INTEL Lays Down The Gauntlet For AMD And NVIDIA GPUs

by Karl Freund | September 15, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

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

Two industry events have provided the stage for NVIDIA to share their plans for a proprietary Arm CPU based product line that we believe will transform their own business and the AI/HPC industry landscape. NVIDIA used the annual Computex and International Super...

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

by Karl Freund | November 10, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

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

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

Welcome To 2024. It Promises To Be Quite The AI Ride!

by Karl Freund | January 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

2023 has been a fun year in AI, to say the least. OpenAI and ChatGPT changed nearly everything, and the AI revolution is just beginning. Nvidia will ship somewhere around 2 million H100-class GPUs in 2024, AMD is now shipping the MI300, and Intel Gaudi3 is coming...