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Using AI To Build Better Chips

With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...

AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

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...

Nvidia AI Foundry And NIMs: A Huge Competitive Advantage

Nvidia has fleshed out a complete software stack to ease custom model development and deployment for enterprises. Is this AI Nervana? And can AMD and Intel compete with this? In order for enterprises to adopt AI, its got to become a lot easier and more affordable....

NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance

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...

The Case for Hardware-Assisted Verification in Complex SoCs

This article was first published in EE Times. Synopsys recently launched two new hardware-assisted verification (HAV) systems, intended to address the need for specialized hardware to manage the complexity of modern chip design. In this article, we look at the...

$110M In Funding Will Help d-Matrix Get Generative AI Inference Platform To Market

Company sees a window where they can launch their cost-effective solution and get traction ahead of other’s next-gen silicon. d-Matrix has closed $110 million in a Series-B funding round led by Singapore-based global investment firm Temasek. The funding should enable...

NVIDIA Provides More Details On Selene Supercomputer

Last May, when NVIDIA unveiled the Ampere GPU architecture, the company announced a new supercomputer named Selene that ranks #7 in the world in total performance. Selene is now the fastest industrial system in the USA and is the second-most energy-efficient system...

Synopsys Moves To RISC-V To Help SoC Developers

When the number two provider of CPU designs jumps on the RISC-V train, it is a significant milestone. The open-source RISC-V design is on a roll, displacing Arm in many SoC development plans. ARC and Arm are both companies that design and license microprocessor (CPU)...

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

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...