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IBM Teams With AMD For Cloud AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | Nov 19, 2024 | In the News

This could be quite telling, as IBM had previously been using Nvidia for it’s internal cloud AI research. IBM has selected AMD to provide AI accelerators for the IBM Cloud. This is another milestone for AMD, which needs cloud adoption to achieve its goals. And IBM...

d-Matrix Emerges From Stealth With Strong AI Performance And Efficiency

by Karl Freund | Nov 19, 2024 | In the News

Startup launches “Corsair” AI platform with Digital In-Memory Computing, using on-chip SRAM memory that can produce 30,000 tokens/second at 2 ms/token latency for Llama3 70B in a single rack. Using Generative AI, called inference processing, is a memory-intensive...

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

by Karl Freund | Nov 19, 2024 | In the News

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...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

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

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

Nvidia Leads The HPC Landscape At SuperComputing ’24

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

Nvidia has gone from a niche provider of HPC technology to becoming a dominant force in the industry. This year’s SC event reinforces that leadership. The annual SuperComputing event in North America is taking place this week in Atlanta, Georgia, and as usual the show...

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Intel To Separate Programmable Solutions Group (PSG); IPO Seen In Next 2-3 Years

by Karl Freund | October 3, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Thanks to Microsoft’s appetite for FPGAs in the data center, the programmable hardware chips were a hot story in 2015. So, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7B. Then AMD acquired Altera’s biggest competitor, Xilinx, in 2022 for a whopping $50B. Now, unsurprisingly, Intel...

IBM Invests In AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | April 10, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...

Arm Adds More AI Firepower

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As I covered in a recent article on the status of startups building chips for AI, the AI accelerator market will become quite crowded over the next 12-18 months. Not to be outdone, Arm is now extending its neural network processor family, adding logic designs for...

IBM Research Touts AI Supercomputer For Foundation AI

by Karl Freund | February 2, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM has built a supercomputer, named Vela, in the IBM Cloud to help its scientists create and optimize new AI models.AI needs a lot of horsepower. IBM AI Research, which has been investigating new digital and analog processor technologies to speed the calculations AI...

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

by Karl Freund | April 14, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Cadence AI Can Increase Chip Design Quality And Chip Designer Productivity Over 1000%

by Karl Freund | June 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

EDA company’s clients have finished hundreds of new tapeouts using Cadence Cerebrus AI to speed development and make chips that run faster, use less energy, and cost less. For Cadence, AI is all about increasing engineering teams’ productivity, speeding higher...

Why Intel Is Investing In Neuromorphic Computing

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

Intel certainly has a lot of irons in the AI fireplace, including Xeon CPUs, Movidius computer vision chips, MobileEye chips for autonomous driving and Deep Neural Network training and inference processing technology from the newly acquired Habana Labs. With all of...

My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

AMD Launches MI325 AI Accelerator To Challenge Nvidia. Stock Fell 4.5%

by Karl Freund | October 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Chasing Nvidia is hard; Team Green simultaneously countered with new software that can triple AI performance. Consequently, AMD’s performance claims are already out of date. And AMD compared it against the older Hopper, not Blackwell which will ship long before the...

Yes, AMD Believes AI On The PC Is Important. And They Already Have It.

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Recently, TechSpot erroneously reported otherwise, and I expressed my surprise and dismay here on Forbes. Now, lets set the record straight: AMD has been shipping the industry’s first AI-enabled x86 CPU chip for PCs since May. The company has been shipping a high-end...