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MediaTek Aims To Become A Player In Huge Markets

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

MediaTek mobile phone SoCs have historically been considered a) Asian, and b) low end. Thats all about to change with their Dimensity 9300 chip, which also enables entry into markets like the IoT and automotive, where the company is partnering with Nvidia for Advanced...

Cadence Design Launches Two New Platforms For Massive Chip Designs

by Karl Freund | Apr 17, 2024 | In the News

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...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

by Karl Freund | Apr 11, 2024 | In the News

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...

Intel Launches Gaudi 3 With Impressive Gen-AI Performance

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

Intel established itself as a competitive alternative to the Nvidia H100, joining AMD in offering a platform that can run the generative AI models more cost-effectively. Intel took the covers off the new Gaudi-3 AI accelerator this week at the annual Intel Vision...

Qualcomm Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

by Karl Freund | Mar 27, 2024 | In the News

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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Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | October 16, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...

Will AMD’s MI300 Beat NVIDIA In AI?

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The upcoming MI300, which will ship Latter this year after NVIDIA’s Grace/Hopper Superchip, certainly has a shot at it. But there remain a lot of unknowns that will determine how well it performs for AI applications. And then there is Software. Yeah, Software. Lots of...

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...

IBM Research and NeuReality Announce Partnership For AI

by Karl Freund | November 2, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NeuReality is the first Licensee of IBM’s reduced-precision core for AI IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms. IBM and...

Cambridge Quantum Computing: Taking The Open Source Route

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

Cambrian-AI Research Sr. Analyst Gary Fritz contributed this blog. AI has been advancing dramatically in the last decade. It is able to solve classes of problems (facial recognition, machine translation, autonomous vehicles, and others) that were not suitably handled...

Arm Adds More AI Firepower

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As I covered in a recent article on the status of startups building chips for AI, the AI accelerator market will become quite crowded over the next 12-18 months. Not to be outdone, Arm is now extending its neural network processor family, adding logic designs for...

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...

NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance

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

TensorRT-LLM adds a slew of new performance-enhancing features to all NVIDIA GPUs. Just ahead of the next round of MLPerf benchmarks, NVIDIA has announced a new TensorRT software for Large Language Models (LLMs) that can dramatically improve performance and efficiency...

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

by Karl Freund | January 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

Intel Creates $1B Innovation Fund To Grow RISC-V Market (And Attract New Foundry Customers)

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

This announcement will have a long-lasting impact on the entire semiconductor industry: Intel must fabricate chips for its competitors to grow its foundry business, and is investing in the emerging RISC-V market as the catalyst. Intel competitors Andes Technology,...