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Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

by Karl Freund | Oct 2, 2024 | In the News

If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One. Why? Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2024 | In the News

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

by Karl Freund | Sep 18, 2024 | In the News

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

by Karl Freund | Sep 18, 2024 | In the News

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | Aug 28, 2024 | In the News

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

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NVIDIA Continues To Evolve, From Chips To Software To AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | June 1, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s Computex announcements also expand NVIDIA Certified program to DPU and Arm NVIDIA made several announcements this week in Taiwan, launching new software and services to help enterprises enter the age of AI. NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing,...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

by Karl Freund | April 2, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Everyone is not just talking about AI inference processing; they are doing it. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report this week forecasting that global generative AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025, growing 76.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, MarketsandMarkets...

Cerebras Systems Wins A Major New Client: The Mayo Clinic

by Karl Freund | January 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Mayo Clinic has one of the world’s most extensive and valuable health data sets. AI can now transform that treasure trove into better health outcomes and scientific understanding, and Cerebras has been selected to help. As we noted last Fall, Cerebras is one of...

Tenstorrent Launches AI Chip With Conditional Execution

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

What the heck is that you ask? So, did I; but it looks promising! I continue to be amazed at the innovations that are coming to market to accelerate deep learning workloads. GraphCore, Habana Labs, Cerebras, Blaize, Groq, Perceive and others are now being joined by...

An Update On Intel And Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | February 21, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last week, I reported that Intel plans to switch its AI acceleration from Nervana technology to Habana Labs, which it acquired in December. Since Intel had planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions of Nervana’s second generation, this came as...

The US CHIPS Act Shines Spotlight On IBM Semiconductor Technology

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The recent legislation creates an opportunity for IBM to play a pivotal role in a resurgent US semi industry. One day, soon I hope, I hope to write a story about IBM hardware without first correcting the misconception that the IT company has exited the hardware...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

by Karl Freund | February 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...

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...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

by Karl Freund | October 21, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

by Karl Freund | October 17, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...