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Intel, GraphCore And Groq: Let The AI Cambrian Explosion Begin

by | December 12, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...
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Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

by | February 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...
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If You Love AI, Do Not Miss NVIDIA GTC This Year!

by | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...
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Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

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

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...
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Cerebras AI Lands A Whale As It Prepares To Go Public

by | January 15, 2026 | In the News | 1 Comment

Cerebras, famous for being the only AI company with a full wafer-scale chip, has landed OpenAI, its first major US-based hyperscaler. Prior to this deal, Cerebras has been successful securing investments and system commitments from a relatively small number of...
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Cerebras And Mayo Clinic Announce Foundation Model For Healthcare

by | January 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

JP Morgan’s annual Healthcare Conference is almost becoming an AI event as doctors and AI scientists collaborate to turn petabytes of clinical data into generative AI models and actionable insights. The progress made since Chat GPT’s arrival demonstrates that we are...
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The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

by | October 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...
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Blaize AI: Now In Production And Trials

by | August 31, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last November I covered Blaize and its silicon and software strategy, and noted that the company’s fairly large team has been focused on early customer engagements to gain insights and accelerate adoption. Now the company, backed by industrial heavyweights such as...
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NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

by | June 27, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...
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The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

by | December 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The idea of chiplets is simple: develop the best semiconductors for the needed functions using the most proper manufacturing process. Then combine an assortment of chiplets on a multi-die package, and voila! A lower-cost approach to advanced semiconductors. The...
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