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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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As Nvidia Approaches $1 Trillion, It Announces AI Tech To Surpass $2 Trillion

New tech shows the synergies that combining CPU, DPU and GPU can enable in AI. Especially in very large AI. After steering a 25% rise in Nvidia shares last week, CEO Jensen Huang flew to Computex in Taipei to announce a slew of new products demonstrating how his...

Qualcomm’s Vision: The Future Of … AI

Mobile Chip Leader’s AI Starts In Mobile, And Grows To The Clouds Company acquires assets from Twenty Billion Neurons GmbH to bolster its AI Team. Qualcomm Technologies (QTI) is running a series of webinars titled “The Future of...”, and the most recent edition is on...

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow

The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

BrainChip Readies 2nd Gen Platform For Power-Efficient Edge AI

The company’s event-based digital Neuromorphic IP can add efficient AI processing to SoCs. Edge AI is becoming a thing. Instead of using just an embedded microprocessor in edge applications and sending the data to a cloud for AI processing, many edge companies are...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

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

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...

Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again.

Nvidia did not submit results for Blackwell either, as it wasn’t ready when results had to be submitted, but still won the race with the Hopper GPU by up to 4X. Too bad for AMD, as they probably have the most to gain by publishing results for the MI300, even if Hopper...