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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...

Cadence Design And Nvidia Team To Create AI Data Center Digital Twin

by Karl Freund | Sep 19, 2025 | In the News

The data center business is in a bit of a panic. Demand is skyrocketing. Rack power requirements have increased from ~12KW per rack to over 125 KW in just the last year. Now they are preparing for a Gigawatt rack in the next two to three years (Nvidia Rubin Ultra)....

Nvidia Announces Rubin CPX GPU To Speed Long-Context AI

by Karl Freund | Sep 9, 2025 | In the News

In an industry-first, Nvidia has announced a new GPU, the Rubin CPX, to offload the compute-intensive “context processing” off another GPU. Yep, now, for some AI, you will need two GPUs to achieve maximize performance and profit. I would be surprised if the...

MLPerf 5.1: Nvidia Stays In The Lead While AMD Shows Off Its Latest

by Karl Freund | Sep 9, 2025 | In the News

The Nvidia juggernaught faces increased competition, but keeps innovating in silicon, software and systems design to keep its No. 1 position in the AI market. The industry standard MLCommons organization has just released the latest benchmarks for inference...

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The Cambrian AI Landscape: GROQ

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...

Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

by Karl Freund | October 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...

Qualcomm Could Benefit Most From DeepSeek’s New, Smaller AI

by Karl Freund | February 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While the Deep Seek Moment crashed most semiconductor stocks as investors feared lower demand for data center AI chips, these new, smaller AI models are just the ticket for on-device AI. “DeepSeek R1 and other similar models recently demonstrated that AI models are...

Cadence Supercomputer Appliance Enables Full-Scale Digital Twins

by Karl Freund | February 1, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, software simulates the flow of fluids around an object in fine detail and is indispensable to auto and aerospace manufacturers. But it takes a lot of FLOPS to simulate how a full system (a car, plane, jet engine, ...) behaves in...

What NVIDIA Will Say At Hotchips‘22

by Karl Freund | August 31, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

“We are the Accelerated Data Center”: GPU’s, CPUs, Networking and Systems. As anyone not comatose knows, today’s modern data center workloads — like AI, HPC, and machine learning — absolutely demand acceleration. And the appetite for acceleration seems insatiable, in...

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

by Karl Freund | January 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

How Enfabrica Is Reimagining, And Disrupting, The AI Data Center

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AIHW and Edge AI Summit had a treasure trove of insightful presentations from luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Lip-Bu Tan, Marc Tremblay, and many others. I hope to get around to writing about what I learned, but first, I want to share the innovations from a startup...

Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

by Karl Freund | December 15, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has a multi-prong AI strategy. The company announced the AI PC and Intel Xeon Gen5 with excellent AI performance and TCO. Intel announced new products for desktops and servers, and the focus for both was AI, where Intel has a commanding lead over the...

Nvidia Rocks CES With Grace-Blackwell AI PC Platform

by Karl Freund | January 6, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Among a slew of AI software announcements, Nvidia founder, CEO, and fashion icon Jensen Huang announced a new platform to power AI PCs for AI developers. Many analysts had long expected this move, as the Grace (Arm) CPU coupled with a Blackwell GPU on the same package...