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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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Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...

AI Enables Major Healthcare Advances At JP Morgan Event

How do we create AI in Healthcare? If you are like me, when you see your doctor, the constant probing for data can be somewhat annoying. First, you fill out forms with endless questions about your medical and familial history. Then, your doctor asks about your...

Yes, AMD Believes AI On The PC Is Important. And They Already Have It.

Recently, TechSpot erroneously reported otherwise, and I expressed my surprise and dismay here on Forbes. Now, lets set the record straight: AMD has been shipping the industry’s first AI-enabled x86 CPU chip for PCs since May. The company has been shipping a high-end...

AI Chip Vendors: A Look At Who’s Who In The Zoo In 2024

2/15: Updated to include Tenstorrent While the Nvidia AI story has rightly captivated investor attention, competitors are readying alternatives. How might AMD, Intel, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Groq, D-Matrix and all the Cloud Service Providers impact the market? As...

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

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...

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

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,...

Synopsys Opens The Next Chapter Of AI Tools For Chip Design And Manufacturing

The EDA leader has generated over $500M to date in AI tools and technologies. Now a new data analytics solution applies data management, curation, and analysis across the entire pipeline of chip creation. Synopsys was the first EDA company to apply AI to chip design,...

Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

It’s Moving Day!

Its Hard to Start Over. But It is Time… From Forbes to Substack. I’ve been publishing on Forbes for over a decade, focusing primarily on AI Hardware as an Industry Analyst. My company is Cambrian-AI Research, which I founded after leaving Moor Insights and Strategy in...