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Our Year-End Newsletter

With the end of the year at hand, we first want to thank you for being a follower of Cambrian-AI Research, and share a few thoughts about the industry. Our community has grown tremendously thanks to you reading our many blogs on Forbes. EE Times, and on this...

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The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

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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Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

Qualcomm Cloud AI100 Ultra: 4 Times The Performance For Large Models

We haven't heard from Qualcomm in a while regarding their power-efficient data center inference accelerator, which still holds the record for power efficiency, according to MLCommons benchmarking. Now Qualcomm has announced a new “Ultra” version that delivers four...

D-Matrix AI Chip Promises Efficient Transformer Processing

Startup combines Digital In-Memory Compute and chiplet implementations for data-center-grade inferencing. This article was written by Cambrian-AI Analysts Alberto Romero and Karl FreundD-Matrix was founded in 2019 by two veterans in the field of AI hardware, Sid Sheth...

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

For the first time, IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in the path towards useful quantum computing systems and software. IBM has published a paper in...

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...

Q2 Competitive Update: The AI Cambrian Explosion Rolls On

A lot of new AI Silicon and Software has been announced since March and it can be tough to keep track of it all. To help users, vendors, and investors keep track, our June Competitive Landscape Report is now available, and for a limited time, the ~70-page report is...

NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

Are AI Venture Investors Crazy, Or Are Groq And Sambanova Worth It?

Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...