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Qualcomm Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....

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Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi takes the stage for the first time as CEO at SNUG, joined by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to discuss the companies’ collaboration and much more. I never knew how close Synopsys and Nvidia were! Apparently, according to Jensen, Synopsys delivered...

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NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again

The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...

The NewReality: Fast Inference Processing For 90% Less?

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...

IBM Shares Quantum Use Cases In Dazzling New Book

The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) has published a beautiful book, good to read and also a substantial addition to any executive office: the fourth edition of The Quantum Decade. The 168-page tome written by over 70 professionals in every industry, clearly...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

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...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

AMD Launches 3rd Generation EPYC

AMD’s new EPYC server chip promises better performance than Intel.

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

NVIDIA Needed A CPU, But Did It Need To Buy Arm To Get One?

I often opine that NVIDIA needs a data center-class CPU to compete with Intel and AMD, both of whom have used tightly-coupled CPU/GPU technology to win the first three U.S. exascale supercomputer deals. Connecting massive GPUs to fast CPUs over a painfully slow PCIe...

Untether AI Touts “At-Memory” Architecture, Promising Efficiency And Performance At The Edge

Every AI hardware startup begins at square one: design a novel architecture to accelerate deep neural network training and inference processing. Some focus on training, where performance is king, where even price is a secondary consideration in these early days of AI....

Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...