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Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

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

The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than Frontier, the worlds fastest supercomputer, on a molecular dynamics...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

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

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

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...

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Xilinx Readies Versal AI Edge For 2022 Availability

by Karl Freund | June 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Platform includes updated AI Engine with 4- and 8-bit integer math, along with new memory architecture. Xilinx has just launched the first edge model of the flexible Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family, the third Versal to be announced in...

Cadence Design Launches Two New Platforms For Massive Chip Designs

by Karl Freund | April 17, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cadence has updated its platforms that supports chip design teams, offering more than 2X more capacity and 1.5X faster performance than the previous generation and can support chips up to 48 billion gates. Designing and testing chips is constantly becoming more...

Nvidia Leads The HPC Landscape At SuperComputing ’24

by Karl Freund | November 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

by Karl Freund | October 27, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

Nvidia GTC-DC Event Highlights AI, Quantum, And 6G Advances

by Karl Freund | October 28, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia GTC has become not only a key event for AI but has also branched out to Asia, Europe, and Washington, DC to keep developers and buyers up to date on the latest advances in high-performance computing technology. This year's DC event, which kicked off with a...

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

by Karl Freund | September 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Buckle Up! Here’s The Hot News From Nvidia GTC 2024

by Karl Freund | March 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

There is so much to share, so here is our take from Jensen’s Keynote address... After a five year Covid hiatus, Jensen Huang took the stage for an in-person Keynote at the SAP Arena to an adoring crowd of techies and investors. Like in the olden days, the man in the...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

by Karl Freund | February 8, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...

AI Startup Tsavorite Emerges With $100M In Orders, 10X Performance

by Karl Freund | November 10, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Another player has entered the AI semiconductor arena, and they’re not holding back. Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence, a Silicon Valley startup, has come onto the scene with bold performance claims, just a week before the SC25 event in St. Louis, Missouri. While their...

Qualcomm Researches AI Techniques That Could Enhance The Wireless Experience

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

AI Research at Qualcomm Technologies is advancing wireless communications and RF location sensing. Wireless communications and RF sensing technologies continue to advance with 5G rolling out now and 5G Advanced in the wings. In order to sustain a high...