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

by Karl Freund | Aug 20, 2024 | In the News

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...

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

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

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,...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

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

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Nvidia AI Foundry And NIMs: A Huge Competitive Advantage

by Karl Freund | Jul 23, 2024 | In the News

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....

What’s Next For On-Device AI? Ask Qualcomm

by Karl Freund | Jul 1, 2024 | In the News

Qualcomm held a one day analyst event in San Diego updating us all on their AI research. Pretty amazing stuff, but the big news is yet to come with a new Oryon-based Snapdragon expected this Fall, and perhaps a new Cloud AI 100 next year. Qualcomm was pretty confident...

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Nvidia And Cadence Claim Breakthrough In AI-Powered Chip Design

by Karl Freund | June 1, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

AI silicon complexity is outpacing engineering scale—even at NVIDIA’s headcount. Autonomy is becoming existential, not a nice-to-have. And EDA vendors are rusing in to fill that need. In February, Cadence Design rocked the chip world by announcing they had developed...

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...

Qualcomm Doubles The Smart In Smartphones

by Karl Freund | December 27, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

For the last decade, a “smart phone” was defined by its ability to run applications locally on the device. These days, however, “smart” means features powered by AI, with intelligent applications such as enhanced computational photography, voice processing and gaming...

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

by Karl Freund | September 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

by Karl Freund | November 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...

IBM And Rapidus Will Collaborate To Build 2nm Chips In Japan.

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

IBM, who invented the tech everyone will use to create 2nm silicon, is partnering with Rapidus to bring it to market The world now realizes that major economies need to have reliable and secure access to semiconductors, the heart of the digital economy, not to mention...

Using A Digital Twin To Manage A Sustainable Flexible Data Center

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

Cadence’s acquisition of Future Facilities in 2022 opened the door to large data centers, and provides the company with the ability to manage power and cooling just when data centers need help the most as AI surges. Suppose you are running a data center, racks full of...

NeMo Megatron Reinforces NVIDIA AI Leadership In Large Language Models

by Karl Freund | August 12, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

LLMs are changing AI, and NVIDIA is changing its platform to excel in this fast-growing field Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this story Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the AI landscape today. Since OpenAI established...

Qualcomm Has Become A Leader In Automotive Automation

by Karl Freund | October 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm's auto-related revenue jumped 87% year over year in the second quarter this year, well ahead of rivals Nvidia and Mobileye. Qualcomm estimated its automotive pipeline to be $45B earlier this year, double that of the previous year. Qualcomm's automotive...

Using AI To Build Better Chips

by Karl Freund | May 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

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...