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My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

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...

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NVIDIA Keeps The Performance Crown For AI Inference For The 6th Time In A Row

In The Data Center And On The Edge, the bottom line is that the H100 (Hopper-based) GPU is up to four times faster than the NVIDIA A100 on the newly released ​MLPerf V2.1 benchmark suite. The A100 retains leadership in many benchmarks versus other available products...

BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge

Unlike in image processing or large language models, few AI startups are focused on sequential data processing, which includes video processing and time-series analysis. BrainChip is just fine with that. With all the buzz around LLM generative AI, it is understandable...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

In The Latest AI Benchmarks, Nvidia Remains The Champ, But Qualcomm Is Rising Fast

NVIDIA rules the performance roost, Qualcomm demonstrates exceptional power efficiency, and Intel demonstrates the power of software. Every three months, the not-for-profit group MLCommons publishes a slew of peer-reviewed MLPerf benchmark results for deep learning,...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

Hyundai And Samsung Lead $100M Investment Round In Tenstorrent

Partners make great investors because their intent is to secure influence and gain access to advanced technology. Hyundai Motor Group and the Samsung Catalyst Fund have co-led a $100M investment in Tenstorrent, and both companies plan to use Tenstorrent’ tech. I love...

Synopsys, Cadence, Google And NVIDIA All Agree: Use AI To Help Design Chips

Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...

Intel Habana Launches 2nd Gen AI Chips

Habana launches new chips for training and inference, claiming 2X performance advantage over last generation NVIDIA A100 Habana launched their 1st chip at the inaugural Kisaco AI Hardware Summit in 2018 with excellent performance and efficiency. Unfortunately for...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Why Intel Is Investing In Neuromorphic Computing

Intel certainly has a lot of irons in the AI fireplace, including Xeon CPUs, Movidius computer vision chips, MobileEye chips for autonomous driving and Deep Neural Network training and inference processing technology from the newly acquired Habana Labs. With all of...