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Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

by Karl Freund | Jun 3, 2024 | In the News

Nvidia broadens its reach to ensure that AI delivers on its promises. AMD is building faster chips, faster. The Market appears to prefers the former: Nvidia is up nearly 5%, while AMD is down ~2.5% today. Which is better? Well Elon Musk said Sunday on X that his xAI...

Qiskit Comes Of Age With Quantum Performance, New Features From IBM

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

Qiskit has emerged as the go-to development platform for quantum coders, with over 550,000 users developing quantum circuits to run on quantum machines from eight vendors. IBM Research launched Qiskit (the "Quantum Information Science Kit") in 2017 to provide...

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...

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IBM Rolls Out New Power10 Servers And Flexible Consumption Models

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The high-end Power10 server launched last year has enjoyed “fantastic” demand, according to IBM. Let’s look into how IBM Power has maintained its unique place in the processor landscape. This article is a bit of a walk down memory lane for me, as I recall 4 years...

What Is Physical AI, And Why It Could Change The World

by Karl Freund | August 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes Physical AI will be the next big thing. Emerging robots will take many forms, all powered by AI. Recently Nvidia has been extolling a future where robots will be everywhere. Intelligence machines will be in the kitchen, the factory,...

MLPerf Training 4.0: It’s All About Scale

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

by Karl Freund | October 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...

Blaize AI Emerges From Stealth

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Throughout 2020, a wave of AI hardware startups will launch their companies and products. Cerebras started this wave with its wafer-scale engine last September. This week, Intel announced its AI chips from Nervana, Groq (founded by the inventors of Google TPU)...

The Good, Bad, And Ugly From Supercomputing ‘23, Or Nearby

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

This year’s event was as much about AI as it was about HPC. The only booths not talking about AI were, well, nobody. Everyone was touting the miracles of AI, from CPUs to accelerators to system companies to networking vendors to storage to clouds to water cooling...

Tenstorrent Could Reshape The AI And CPU Competitive Landscape

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

Now led by Jim Keller, the company has built a new leadership team and a new strategy. It has tremendous potential. Now it must execute. Introduction It is hard to believe the difference a year makes. In 2021, there were over 100 public and venture-backed startups...

The View From The AI HW Summit: What Was The Best AI HW In 2021?

by Karl Freund | September 14, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Summit is full of newsworthy announcements this week! I present a look back to help kick off the event... Today I present my annual AI industry overview at the AI Hardware Summit. This is the fourth annual event with nearly all the AI hardware vendors talking...

AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

by Karl Freund | November 12, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

With so much focus on inference processing, it is easy to overlook the AI training market, which continues to drive gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The latest benchmarks show that the training of AI models, an immense investment in power and compute, continues to...

NovuMind: An Early AI Chip Startup

by Karl Freund | June 3, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last fall, a bit of nerdy controversy arose around AI chip startup NovuMind when the company announced its first low-power chip for processing neural networks. The company claimed that its patented design could natively process 3-D tensor data far more efficiently...