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Qualcomm Has Become A Leader In Automotive Automation

by Karl Freund | Oct 8, 2024 | In the News

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...

Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

by Karl Freund | Oct 2, 2024 | In the News

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...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

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

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

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

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

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

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

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NVIDIA Launches New GPUs And Services for Generative AI Inferencing

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

A new PCI-card with 12 times more inference throughput for large models like ChatGPT and NeMo services for Foundation Model customizations. Jensen Huang was thoroughly enjoying his virtual stage time at this year's GTC event. Why not? His company’s stock is up 80%...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Qualcomm

by Karl Freund | March 4, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Can the mobile chip giant finally break into the data center? Qualcomm began sampling the Cloud AI100 to select data center customers last quarter. The performance looks to be promising, based on the limited benchmarks we have seen, and the power efficiency for...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: Solid Progress, Aggressive Goals

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM AI acceleration technologies are becoming so good, most AI chip companies would be better off licensing core AI tech from IBM. Creating and using massive AI networks is quickly becoming unaffordable: Open.AI’s GPT-3 cost over $12M to train using thousands of GPU’s...

Welcome To 2024. It Promises To Be Quite The AI Ride!

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

2023 has been a fun year in AI, to say the least. OpenAI and ChatGPT changed nearly everything, and the AI revolution is just beginning. Nvidia will ship somewhere around 2 million H100-class GPUs in 2024, AMD is now shipping the MI300, and Intel Gaudi3 is coming...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

by Karl Freund | March 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

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

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Cadence AI Can Increase Chip Design Quality And Chip Designer Productivity Over 1000%

by Karl Freund | June 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

EDA company’s clients have finished hundreds of new tapeouts using Cadence Cerebrus AI to speed development and make chips that run faster, use less energy, and cost less. For Cadence, AI is all about increasing engineering teams’ productivity, speeding higher...

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

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

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...

Nvidia Leads The HPC Landscape At SuperComputing ’24

by Karl Freund | November 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia has gone from a niche provider of HPC technology to becoming a dominant force in the industry. This year’s SC event reinforces that leadership. The annual SuperComputing event in North America is taking place this week in Atlanta, Georgia, and as usual the show...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...