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Is Nvidia Competing With Its GPU Cloud Partners?

by Karl Freund | Jun 17, 2025 | In the News

Nvidia recently announced two new cloud initiatives. First, the company announced DGX Cloud Lepton, designed to connect artificial intelligence developers with Nvidia’s wide network of cloud providers. Second, Nvidia announced a new cloud service, the Industrial AI...

AMD Announces MI350 GPU And Future Roadmap Details

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2025 | In the News

AMD held their now-annual Advancing AI event today in Silicon Valley, with new GPUs, new networking, new software, and even a rack-scale architecture for 2026/27 to better compete with the Nvidia NVL72 that is taking the AI world by storm. Let’s dive in! Net-Net...

MLPerf Shows AMD Catching Up With Nvidia’s Older H200 GPU

by Karl Freund | Jun 4, 2025 | In the News

As you AI pros know, the 125-member MLCommons organization alternates training and inference benchmarks every three months. This time around, its all about training, which remains the largest AI hardware market, although not by much as inference drives more growth as...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...

Speeding AI With Co-Processors

by Karl Freund | May 7, 2025 | In the News

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...

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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...

Cerebras Lands Huge AI Deal: A 36 Exaflop Monster

by Karl Freund | July 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Wafer-Scale Engine company has been working for 8 years to break into the top tier of AI computing. This deal might just assure its success. We have been watching Cerebras for a long time, from its launch of the first wafer-scale engine for AI to its recent...

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

by Karl Freund | 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...

Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Graphcore, a UK-based startup, launched its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018. Today it introduced its second-generation product for AI, a massively parallel chip with 59.4 billion transistors that delivers some 250 Trillion...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

by Karl Freund | August 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

A Deeper Look Into Qualcomm’s MLPerf Results

by Karl Freund | October 5, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm not only bested the entire field for power efficiency, a 16-card server was the fastest tested. Qualcomm, perhaps best known for its leadership Snapdragon mobile platform, has further enhanced its AI bona fides with V1.1 MLPerf inference benchmark suite...

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...

Using AI To Build Better Chips

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

With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

by Karl Freund | January 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...