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Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

by Karl Freund | Oct 22, 2024 | In the News

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

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

by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2024 | In the News

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...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | Oct 16, 2024 | In the News

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...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

by Karl Freund | Oct 15, 2024 | In the News

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

How AI Changes The Role Of Memory Companies And Their Value

by Karl Freund | Oct 14, 2024 | In the News

As GPU’s become a bigger part of data center spend, the companies that provide the HBM memory needed to make them sing are benefitting tremendously. AI system performance is highly dependent on memory capacity, bandwidth and latency. Consequently, memory technology is...

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Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | February 24, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...

Promising Returns For Synopsys.ai Suite Of AI Solutions

by Karl Freund | July 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys is seeing strong demand for its newer AI technologies in test, verification, manufacturing and analog migration, in addition to the ongoing need for design optimization (DSO.ai). Synopsys was the first Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company to provide AI...

Cerebras Partners With Qualcomm, Launches 3rd-Gen Wafer-Scale AI

by Karl Freund | March 13, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The newest system from Cerebras can handle multi-trillion parameter generative AI problems at twice the performance of its predecessor, while partnering with Qualcomm will help them cut inference processing costs by 10X. Cerebras Systems, the innovative startup who’s...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

by Karl Freund | December 19, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

Cadence Design Is Working With Renesas To Build The World’s First LLM Tool For Up-Front Chip Design

by Karl Freund | September 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company sees this as an augmentation, not a replacement, for its portfolio of reinforcement learning AI tools that improve the productivity of chip design teams, addressing the most challenging part of chip design. Cadence has been aggressively rolling out...

Tenstorrent Shifts Leadership Roles

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

The Toronto-based startup is growing fast, swapping CEO and CTO roles, and laying out a compelling roadmap for AI and RISC-V. Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based startup who raised over $200M in venture funding at a $1B valuation in May, 2021, has now grown to over 280...

Intel’s New Chips Focus On AI

by Karl Freund | July 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, Intel launched and disclosed new technologies across its portfolio of processors, with special emphasis on enhanced AI capabilities. Unlike its many competitors, who either produce a CPU, a GPU, an FPGA or an AI-specific accelerator, Intel’s strategy is “all of...

AMD Goes After NVIDIA With New GPU For The Datacenter

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, DataCenter AI, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Today AMD announced its first data center GPU to compete in high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Last year, the company announced that it would bifurcate its GPU technology into two architectures: CDNA for computation and RDNA for...

Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

by Karl Freund | October 2, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...