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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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NVIDIA Earth-2: Leveraging The Omniverse To Help Understand Climate Change

by Karl Freund | April 9, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cambrian-AI Analyst Alberto Romero contributed to this article. One of the greatest challenges humanity faces today is climate change. Although changes in climate occur naturally, during the last 200 years human activities have directly influenced the otherwise normal...

AMD To Power ‘El Capitan’ Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

by Karl Freund | March 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | October 16, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...

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 Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

by Karl Freund | January 3, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...

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...

Tenstorrent Opens Office In Japan To Capitalize On RISC-V + AI

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

Is the company setting up the first RISC-V HPC win? Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based semiconductor company, now led by the super-star chip designer Jim Keller, has just opened a new office in Japan. So, as many other AI startups are struggling, Tenstorrent is doubling...

NVIDIA GTC: “DPU” Smart NIC And More

by Karl Freund | October 22, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rarely disappoints his audience nor his investors. This week he once again delivered the goods at the GPU Technology Conference. Announcing a broad range of hardware and software innovations, Jensen made it clear that he intends...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

by Karl Freund | June 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Two industry events have provided the stage for NVIDIA to share their plans for a proprietary Arm CPU based product line that we believe will transform their own business and the AI/HPC industry landscape. NVIDIA used the annual Computex and International Super...