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AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

by Karl Freund | Aug 20, 2024 | In the News

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

What Is Physical AI, And Why It Could Change The World

by Karl Freund | Aug 9, 2024 | In the News

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes Physical AI will be the next big thing. Emerging robots will take many forms, all powered by AI. Recently Nvidia has been extolling a future where robots will be everywhere. Intelligence machines will be in the kitchen, the factory,...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

by Karl Freund | Aug 9, 2024 | In the News

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....

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...

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Cerebras Publishes 7 Trained Generative AI Models To Open Source

by Karl Freund | March 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI company is the first to use Non-GPU tech to train GPT-based Large Language Models and make available to the AI community. The early days of an open AI community, sharing work and building on each other’s success, is over. As there is now much more money at...

Speeding AI With Co-Processors

by Karl Freund | May 7, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

by Karl Freund | February 24, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Every six months, NVIDIA, Intel and Google show how much their AI training hardware and software have improved while their competitors hide in the bushes. NVIDIA is starting to see some competitive threats but remains the leader, especially in the scale of its...

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 Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

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

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

New Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Has A Real Shot At The Laptop x86 Market

by Karl Freund | October 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

And laptops are just the beginning of the road for the new Oryon CPU, which will become the primary Qualcomm Arm CPU for all devices, from phones to cars, boasting industry-leading performance and efficiency. “There is a new sheriff in town!” Cristiano Anon, CEO of...

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...

Q2 Competitive Update: The AI Cambrian Explosion Rolls On

by Karl Freund | June 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

A lot of new AI Silicon and Software has been announced since March and it can be tough to keep track of it all. To help users, vendors, and investors keep track, our June Competitive Landscape Report is now available, and for a limited time, the ~70-page report is...

Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?

by Karl Freund | June 4, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000...