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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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AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

With so much focus on inference processing, it is easy to overlook the AI training market, which continues to drive gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The latest benchmarks show that the training of AI models, an immense investment in power and compute, continues to...

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NVIDIA Acquires Bright Computing For Cluster Management

Privately-held Bright is a favorite of HPC users, and will reinforce NVIDIA’s strategy of providing full-stack solutions for Enterprise HPC and AI. Bright Computing has been around since 2009, providing large-scale cluster management for HPC installations. The...

Intel To Separate Programmable Solutions Group (PSG); IPO Seen In Next 2-3 Years

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...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

NVIDIA Again Claims The Title For The Fastest AI; Competitors Disagree

Intel Habana Labs and Graphcore add scale and software optimizations, while Google skips this round, choosing to put a stake in the ground for half-trillion parameter models. Every six months, the AI hardware community gathers virtually to strut their hardware stuff...

Pat Gelsinger’s First Big Bet

New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...

Qualcomm Technologies AI Software: Broad And Deep AI.

Qualcomm software supports multiple hardware accelerators in both Snapdragon and Cloud implementations, while making it easy for developers. We have taken a deeper look into the software that makes Snapdragon the best AI for mobile devices and enables the Cloud AI100...

IBM Is Positioned To Lead In Quantum Computing

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...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is emerging as a serious challenger to current CPUs based on...

Cerebras Builds Its Own AI Supercomputer, Andromeda

Company stood up an AI Exaflop system in just three days! At Supercomputing ‘22 in Dallas, Texas, startup Cerebras has announced the company has created its own supercomputer, much like NVIDIA has done with Selene. The system, called Andromeda, is composed of 16 CS-2...

Qualcomm Researches AI Techniques That Could Enhance The Wireless Experience

AI Research at Qualcomm Technologies is advancing wireless communications and RF location sensing. Wireless communications and RF sensing technologies continue to advance with 5G rolling out now and 5G Advanced in the wings. In order to sustain a high...