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Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

by Karl Freund | Oct 2, 2024 | In the News

If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One. Why? Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2024 | In the News

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

by Karl Freund | Sep 18, 2024 | In the News

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

by Karl Freund | Sep 18, 2024 | In the News

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | Aug 28, 2024 | In the News

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

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IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

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

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...

Meta Enters The Token Business, Powered By Nvidia, Cerebras And Groq

by Karl Freund | April 29, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...

IBM To Deploy Quantum System In The Basque Country Of Spain.

by Karl Freund | March 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

127-qubit Quantum System One to advance quantum science in Southern Europe IBM has announced that it has contracted with Fundación Ikerbasque to install and manage a new Quantum computer system, including Qiskit Runtime Services, in the Basque Country. The 127-qubit...

Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?

by Karl Freund | June 4, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000...

Who Needs Big AI Models? Amazon Web Services Using Cerebras Hardware

by Karl Freund | July 10, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI world continues to evolve rapidly, especially since the introduction of DeepSeek and its followers. Many have concluded that enterprises don't really need the large, expensive AI models touted by OpenAI, Meta, and Google, and are focusing instead on smaller...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

by Karl Freund | March 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Every six months, NVIDIA, Intel and Google show how much their AI training hardware and software have improved while their competitors hide in the bushes. NVIDIA is starting to see some competitive threats but remains the leader, especially in the scale of its...

The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

by Karl Freund | 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...

NVIDIA AI Runs The Mlperf Table Again

by Karl Freund | August 17, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, the industry standard AI benchmarking group, mlperf, released its 3rd raft of submissions for training AI networks, and just like the first two releases, NVIDIA swept a sparse competitive field in the category of commercially available hardware and software....