The Latest News in AI

We publish news articles on Forbes, which are copied here for your convenience.

Qualcomm Could Benefit Most From DeepSeek’s New, Smaller AI

by Karl Freund | Feb 14, 2025 | In the News

While the Deep Seek Moment crashed most semiconductor stocks as investors feared lower demand for data center AI chips, these new, smaller AI models are just the ticket for on-device AI. “DeepSeek R1 and other similar models recently demonstrated that AI models are...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

by Karl Freund | Feb 11, 2025 | In the News

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...

Who Wins If The New Biden AI Export Rules Stand?

by Karl Freund | Jan 14, 2025 | In the News

While Nvidia and the European Union have expressed their displeasure with the latest salvo of AI export restrictions from the Biden administration, a few companies and countries could actually benefit from them. But the industry as a whole will suffer, and so will...

Cerebras And Mayo Clinic Announce Foundation Model For Healthcare

by Karl Freund | Jan 14, 2025 | In the News

JP Morgan’s annual Healthcare Conference is almost becoming an AI event as doctors and AI scientists collaborate to turn petabytes of clinical data into generative AI models and actionable insights. The progress made since Chat GPT’s arrival demonstrates that we are...

AI Enables Major Healthcare Advances At JP Morgan Event

by Karl Freund | Jan 13, 2025 | In the News

How do we create AI in Healthcare? If you are like me, when you see your doctor, the constant probing for data can be somewhat annoying. First, you fill out forms with endless questions about your medical and familial history. Then, your doctor asks about your...

« Older Entries

Next Entries »

Tensordyne Revives Logarithmic Math In A Bid To Cut AI Power Use

by Karl Freund | June 15, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Remember in high school when your math teacher tried to teach (logarithmic) log math? Yeah, me either. But now Tensordyne, a startup based in Germany and California, has launched an AI accelerator that operates in the logarithmic domain, claiming a 17-fold improvement...

Esperanto Sees A Bright Future For RISC-V In AI And HPC

by Karl Freund | May 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is shipping its first-gen chip globally, with over 1000 cores at only 25 watts of power. Can it break into Generative AI? Suddenly, AI has become the hottest investment and cocktail party topic de jour. But the estimates for power consumption are pretty...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

by Karl Freund | March 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | February 10, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...

NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

by Karl Freund | June 27, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

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...

A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

by Karl Freund | January 3, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

by Karl Freund | October 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

IBM Rolls Out New Power10 Servers And Flexible Consumption Models

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The high-end Power10 server launched last year has enjoyed “fantastic” demand, according to IBM. Let’s look into how IBM Power has maintained its unique place in the processor landscape. This article is a bit of a walk down memory lane for me, as I recall 4 years...

Eliyan Technology May Rewrite How Chiplets Come Together

by Karl Freund | April 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s interconnect eliminates the need for expensive interposers, accelerating AI processing; could double the amount of memory for AI like ChatGTP, saving millions. Artificial Intelligence is finally having its iPhone moment. The launch of ChatGPT led to waves of...