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Nvidia AI Foundry And NIMs: A Huge Competitive Advantage

by Karl Freund | Jul 23, 2024 | In the News

Nvidia has fleshed out a complete software stack to ease custom model development and deployment for enterprises. Is this AI Nervana? And can AMD and Intel compete with this? In order for enterprises to adopt AI, its got to become a lot easier and more affordable....

What’s Next For On-Device AI? Ask Qualcomm

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

Qualcomm held a one day analyst event in San Diego updating us all on their AI research. Pretty amazing stuff, but the big news is yet to come with a new Oryon-based Snapdragon expected this Fall, and perhaps a new Cloud AI 100 next year. Qualcomm was pretty confident...

The NewReality: Fast Inference Processing For 90% Less?

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

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...

Synopsys Certifies AI-Lead Design And IP Solutions For Samsung’s 2nm

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News

2nm is the Next Big Thing in chip production, and Synopsys design tools and IP are now ready for production work and tape-outs on Samsung’s latest fab. Samsung has its eyes on the prize, hoping to secure more design wins as it competes with TSMC for the semiconductor...

MLPerf Training 4.0: It’s All About Scale

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News

While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...

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Qualcomm Launches Unified AI Stack For Cloud To Edge Intelligence

by Karl Freund | July 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The new Qualcomm AI Stack lays the foundation for domain-specific SDK’s While advances in AI accelerators have improved silicon performance by over a thousand-fold, it’s software that turns bits of silicon into useful capabilities for consumers and businesses. After...

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

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Intel

by Karl Freund | February 18, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford University. Consequently, the company has at least one of everything: CPU, GPU, ASICs, and FPGAs. While this may appear to be a...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

by Karl Freund | November 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

by Karl Freund | February 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...

NVIDIA L40S: A Datacenter GPU For Omniverse And Graphics That Can Also Accelerate AI Training & Inference

by Karl Freund | August 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

I’m getting a lot of inquiries from investors about the potential for this new GPU and for good reasons; it is fast! NVIDIA announced a new passively-cooled GPU at SIGGRAPH, the PCIe-based L40S, and most of us analysts just considered this to be an upgrade to the...

Cambridge Quantum Computing: Taking The Open Source Route

by Karl Freund | October 1, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cambrian-AI Research Sr. Analyst Gary Fritz contributed this blog. AI has been advancing dramatically in the last decade. It is able to solve classes of problems (facial recognition, machine translation, autonomous vehicles, and others) that were not suitably handled...

Tenstorrent Shifts Leadership Roles

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Toronto-based startup is growing fast, swapping CEO and CTO roles, and laying out a compelling roadmap for AI and RISC-V. Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based startup who raised over $200M in venture funding at a $1B valuation in May, 2021, has now grown to over 280...

Intel Launches Gaudi 3 With Impressive Gen-AI Performance

by Karl Freund | April 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel established itself as a competitive alternative to the Nvidia H100, joining AMD in offering a platform that can run the generative AI models more cost-effectively. Intel took the covers off the new Gaudi-3 AI accelerator this week at the annual Intel Vision...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | October 16, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...