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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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NVIDIA DPU & Intel IPU: Game Changers Or Just Smart NICs?

by Karl Freund | August 2, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has joined the fray to create a new category of Smart Network Interfaces, but with a different strategy than NVIDIA. Back in 2020, when we were all still afraid to leave our homes, NVIDIA launched what it said was a new kind of processor that combined the...

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

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

For the first time, IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in the path towards useful quantum computing systems and software. IBM has published a paper in...

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...

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...

Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

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

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...

AI Startup MosaicML Comes Out Of Stealth To Aid AI Developers

by Karl Freund | October 13, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Naveen Rao, ex-Nervana and Intel, leads the new company focused on improving the efficiency of AI Training Training a deep neural network takes a lot of computational horsepower. Billions of trillions of multiplications and additions calculate “weights” which are...

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

by Karl Freund | December 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

SiMa.ai Sets A New Standard In Embedded Edge Power Efficiency

by Karl Freund | April 7, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

For power-constrained edge applications, SiMa tops the leader, NVIDIA Orin, according to the company’s recent MLPerf results and more. There’s big AI like ChatGPT, and then there is useful AI embedded at the edge. At in these environments, available power could be...

An Update On Intel And Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | February 21, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last week, I reported that Intel plans to switch its AI acceleration from Nervana technology to Habana Labs, which it acquired in December. Since Intel had planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions of Nervana’s second generation, this came as...

NVIDIA GTC ’20 Could Be Massive

by Karl Freund | March 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference, everyone is anxious to see what CEO Jensen Huang has up his trademark black leather sleeves. I have no idea, but as usual, I have an opinion. An intro to GTC GTC is NVIDIA’s partners’ big annual opportunity to...