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Who Has The Fastest AI Inference, And Why Does It Matter?

by Karl Freund | Nov 1, 2024 | In the News

A food fight erupted at the AI HW Summit earlier this year, where three companies all claimed to offer the fastest AI processing. All were faster than GPUs. Now Cerebras has claimed insanely fast AI performance with their latest software running on the company’s...

Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

by Karl Freund | Oct 22, 2024 | In the News

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

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

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | Oct 16, 2024 | In the News

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

by Karl Freund | Oct 15, 2024 | In the News

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

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SiFive Lands $175M Financing

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

Need A Chat-Bot For Your Business? Try NVIDIA NeMo.

by Karl Freund | March 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nemo can help organizations tailor AI Models to focus on a smaller domain; and perhaps avoid costly mistakes! Lesley Stahl: “Oh, my god. It's wrong!” The veteran reporter was aghast that Microsoft Bing could get something so easy so wrong. Ms. Stahl was interviewing...

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

by Karl Freund | November 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

As expected, Amazon AWS CEO Adam Selipsky announced updated AWS-engineered AI Training and Arm CPU chips to lower the cost of cloud services. But AWS has a problem: they have kept Nvidia at arm’s length to their detriment as Microsoft Azure increases market share. To...

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...

The NewReality: Fast Inference Processing For 90% Less?

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

Most of the investment buzz in AI hardware concentrates on the amazing accelerator chips that crunch the math required for neural networks, like Nvidia’s GPUs. But what about the rest of the story? CPUs and NICs that pre- and post-process the query add significant...

Blaize AI: Now In Production And Trials

by Karl Freund | August 31, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last November I covered Blaize and its silicon and software strategy, and noted that the company’s fairly large team has been focused on early customer engagements to gain insights and accelerate adoption. Now the company, backed by industrial heavyweights such as...

RISC-V Startup Esperanto Technologies Samples First AI Silicon

by Karl Freund | April 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Select customers are now evaluating the chip; early results look promising across a broad range of AI workloads Esperanto has been talking about their edge AI chips for several years, and now the company can demonstrate working AI acceleration for image, language, and...

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...

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

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

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...

HotChips Preview: Nvidia Scales AI Beyond The Data Center

by Karl Freund | August 22, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The annual HotChips conference starts this Sunday, Aug. 24, in San Francisco. Nvidia is scheduled to present six sessions covering topics of interest to AI data center users and operators and will make several key announcements I’ll cover in this article. (Like most...