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Cerebras Gets Into The Inference Market With A Bang

by Karl Freund | Aug 27, 2024 | In the News

Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine has only been used for AI training, but new software enables leadership inference processing performance and costs. Should Nvidia be afraid? As Cerebras prepares to go public, it has expanded its target markets and competitive stance by...

IBM Announces Next Telum Mainframe Processor With AI Accelerators

by Karl Freund | Aug 26, 2024 | In the News

IBM has announced the Telum II Processor with shared on-chip AI and, perhaps surprisingly, the Spyre Accelerator, delivered on a PCIe card and designed to accelerate AI models, including LLM Generative AI. The new chips will ship in the yet-to-be-announced...

NIST Ratifies Quantum Safe Algorithms Co-Developed By IBM Research

by Karl Freund | Aug 21, 2024 | In the News

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed three algorithms co-developed by IBM Research, which are used to protect sensitive infrastructure and data from attacks by bad actors using Quantum Computers to break the existing encryption. As...

AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

by Karl Freund | Aug 20, 2024 | In the News

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

What Is Physical AI, And Why It Could Change The World

by Karl Freund | Aug 9, 2024 | In the News

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes Physical AI will be the next big thing. Emerging robots will take many forms, all powered by AI. Recently Nvidia has been extolling a future where robots will be everywhere. Intelligence machines will be in the kitchen, the factory,...

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IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

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

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...

Synopsys Moves To RISC-V To Help SoC Developers

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

When the number two provider of CPU designs jumps on the RISC-V train, it is a significant milestone. The open-source RISC-V design is on a roll, displacing Arm in many SoC development plans. ARC and Arm are both companies that design and license microprocessor (CPU)...

Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

by Karl Freund | November 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than Frontier, the worlds fastest supercomputer, on a molecular dynamics...

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

by Karl Freund | March 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi takes the stage for the first time as CEO at SNUG, joined by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to discuss the companies’ collaboration and much more. I never knew how close Synopsys and Nvidia were! Apparently, according to Jensen, Synopsys delivered...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

by Karl Freund | August 12, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...

NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

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...

The Case for Hardware-Assisted Verification in Complex SoCs

by Karl Freund | March 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

This article was first published in EE Times. Synopsys recently launched two new hardware-assisted verification (HAV) systems, intended to address the need for specialized hardware to manage the complexity of modern chip design. In this article, we look at the...

An Update On Intel And Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | February 21, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last week, I reported that Intel plans to switch its AI acceleration from Nervana technology to Habana Labs, which it acquired in December. Since Intel had planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions of Nervana’s second generation, this came as...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

by Karl Freund | February 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...