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Nvidia Rocks CES With Grace-Blackwell AI PC Platform

by Karl Freund | Jan 6, 2025 | In the News

Among a slew of AI software announcements, Nvidia founder, CEO, and fashion icon Jensen Huang announced a new platform to power AI PCs for AI developers. Many analysts had long expected this move, as the Grace (Arm) CPU coupled with a Blackwell GPU on the same package...

Our Year-End Newsletter

by Karl Freund | Dec 19, 2024 | In the News

With the end of the year at hand, we first want to thank you for being a follower of Cambrian-AI Research, and share a few thoughts about the industry. Our community has grown tremendously thanks to you reading our many blogs on Forbes. EE Times, and on this...

Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2024 | In the News

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...

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

by Karl Freund | Dec 10, 2024 | In the News

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...

The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

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

The idea of chiplets is simple: develop the best semiconductors for the needed functions using the most proper manufacturing process. Then combine an assortment of chiplets on a multi-die package, and voila! A lower-cost approach to advanced semiconductors. The...

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Vera CPU Is Strategic For Nvidia, Not A Side Show

by Karl Freund | July 21, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia has unveiled more details about its Vera CPU, announced earlier this year and now in volume production. Vera appears differentiated in the crowded CPU market, with Nvidia claiming more efficiency and better performance especially for agentic AI workloads. The...

Cerebras Unveils AI Supercomputer-On-A-Chip

by Karl Freund | September 10, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today unicorn startup Cerebras disclosed a few details about the wafer-scale AI chip it has been keeping under wraps for some three years. While many unanswered questions remain, the new approach could mark a significant milestone in the semiconductor industry, where...

Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

by Karl Freund | December 15, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has a multi-prong AI strategy. The company announced the AI PC and Intel Xeon Gen5 with excellent AI performance and TCO. Intel announced new products for desktops and servers, and the focus for both was AI, where Intel has a commanding lead over the...

Enhanced Memory Grace Hopper Superchip Could Shift Demand To NVIDIA CPU And Away From X86

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

The company’s new high bandwidth memory version is only available with the CPU-GPU Superchip. In addition, a new dual Grace-Hopper MGX Board offers 282GB of fast memory for large model inferencing. The AI landscape continues to change rapidly, and fast memory (HBM)...

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...

Mythic Launches Industry First Analog AI Chip

by Gary Fritz | June 7, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Mythic claims 400 TOPS with 1.28B parameters on 16-chip PCIe Card Please welcome new Cambrian-AI Analyst Gary Fritz, who contributed to this article. Artificial Intelligence applications are starting to show up in everything from cell phones to supertankers. But at...

The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | October 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

by Karl Freund | March 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

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...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

by Karl Freund | August 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is emerging as a serious challenger to current CPUs based on...