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Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

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

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi takes the stage for the first time as CEO at SNUG, joined by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to discuss the companies’ collaboration and much more. I never knew how close Synopsys and Nvidia were! Apparently, according to Jensen, Synopsys delivered...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

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

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

IBM Shares Quantum Use Cases In Dazzling New Book

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

The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) has published a beautiful book, good to read and also a substantial addition to any executive office: the fourth edition of The Quantum Decade. The 168-page tome written by over 70 professionals in every industry, clearly...

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Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?

by Karl Freund | June 4, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000...

Intel To Separate Programmable Solutions Group (PSG); IPO Seen In Next 2-3 Years

by Karl Freund | October 3, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Thanks to Microsoft’s appetite for FPGAs in the data center, the programmable hardware chips were a hot story in 2015. So, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7B. Then AMD acquired Altera’s biggest competitor, Xilinx, in 2022 for a whopping $50B. Now, unsurprisingly, Intel...

Hyundai And Samsung Lead $100M Investment Round In Tenstorrent

by Karl Freund | August 2, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Partners make great investors because their intent is to secure influence and gain access to advanced technology. Hyundai Motor Group and the Samsung Catalyst Fund have co-led a $100M investment in Tenstorrent, and both companies plan to use Tenstorrent’ tech. I love...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

by Karl Freund | April 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

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...

IBM Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

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

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

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...

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

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

AI Chip Vendors: A Look At Who’s Who In The Zoo In 2024

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

2/15: Updated to include Tenstorrent While the Nvidia AI story has rightly captivated investor attention, competitors are readying alternatives. How might AMD, Intel, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Groq, D-Matrix and all the Cloud Service Providers impact the market? As...

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...