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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...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

by Karl Freund | Nov 14, 2024 | In the News

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...

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...

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Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

by Karl Freund | December 10, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

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...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

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

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

by Karl Freund | December 19, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | February 29, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Normally, an AI Industry Analyst like myself would not take notice of a new version of Ethernet; its IP is fairly staid technology these days. But now the demands of high performance AI has changed the game, again. CPU, Accelerators, and Switch vendors depend on...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

Using A Digital Twin To Manage A Sustainable Flexible Data Center

by Karl Freund | July 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cadence’s acquisition of Future Facilities in 2022 opened the door to large data centers, and provides the company with the ability to manage power and cooling just when data centers need help the most as AI surges. Suppose you are running a data center, racks full of...

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | June 14, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

For the first time, IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in the path towards useful quantum computing systems and software. IBM has published a paper in...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

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...