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Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

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

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...

Skipping Nvidia Left Amazon, Apple And Tesla Behind In AI

Everyone thinks they are a comic. And everyone in big-cap high tech says they can design better and/or cheaper AI chip alternatives to the industry leader, Nvidia. Turns out, it’s simply not so easy. Apple and AWS have recently faced setbacks in AI growth, and Tesla...

Welcome To 2024. It Promises To Be Quite The AI Ride!

2023 has been a fun year in AI, to say the least. OpenAI and ChatGPT changed nearly everything, and the AI revolution is just beginning. Nvidia will ship somewhere around 2 million H100-class GPUs in 2024, AMD is now shipping the MI300, and Intel Gaudi3 is coming...

SiMa.ai Creates Drag-And-Drop Platform For Building AI Workflows

Assuming it is the software that enables or prevents the adoption of a new AI chip, a reasonable assumption, SiMa has created a new tool called Palette Edgematic to simplify AI solution creation greatly. And build demand for their silicon. As everyone says, “It’s the...

$110M In Funding Will Help d-Matrix Get Generative AI Inference Platform To Market

Company sees a window where they can launch their cost-effective solution and get traction ahead of other’s next-gen silicon. d-Matrix has closed $110 million in a Series-B funding round led by Singapore-based global investment firm Temasek. The funding should enable...

IBM Adds AI Accelerator On Next Generation Z CPU

Transaction processing is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. And with the next generation IBM Z processor, these applications will be able to run accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing directly on the platform, providing real-time analytic insights...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

Arm Adds More AI Firepower

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...

Buckle Up! Here’s The Hot News From Nvidia GTC 2024

There is so much to share, so here is our take from Jensen’s Keynote address... After a five year Covid hiatus, Jensen Huang took the stage for an in-person Keynote at the SAP Arena to an adoring crowd of techies and investors. Like in the olden days, the man in the...