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Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

by Karl Freund | Dec 15, 2023 | In the News

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...

Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

by Karl Freund | Dec 13, 2023 | In the News

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

Qualcomm Makes Its Push For PC Relevance, Leading With AI

by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2023 | In the News

Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...

Cerebras, 23’s Most Successful AI Startup, Sees A Bright Future

by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2023 | In the News

With revenue and customer commitments approaching $1B, Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine has likely generated more business than all other startup players combined. Needless to say, CEO Andrew Feldman is feeling pretty bullish about 2024. As previously discussed, Cerebras...

AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | Dec 6, 2023 | In the News

The hardware looks quite capable, but the software optimization story has a long way to go to get close to Nvidia. But given the current demand/supply imbalance, I suspect AMD can sell all they can make. AMD launched the MI300 in San Jose to an anxious audience of...

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With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

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

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

Cerebras Systems Lays The Foundation For Huge Artificial Intelligence

by Karl Freund | August 24, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Startup announces technology to enable a 120-trillion-parameter model on the way to brain-scale AI. OK, I thought I was done with preparing for HotChips, having prepared six blogs and three research papers. I was ready to take a few days off. Nonetheless, I decided to...

Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

by Karl Freund | December 15, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

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

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

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...

New Fabrics Enable Efficient AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | July 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While GPU performance has been the focus in data centers over the last few years, the performance of fabrics has become a key enabler or bottleneck in achieving the throughput and latency required to create and deliver artificial intelligence at scale. Nvidia’s...

A Look At Graphcore’s AI Software

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Software for new processor designs is critical to enabling application deployment and optimizing performance. UK-based startup Graphcore, the unicorn provider of silicon for application acceleration, places significant emphasis on software, dedicating roughly half its...

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...

The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

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

The idea of chiplets is simple: develop the best semiconductors for the needed functions using the most proper manufacturing process. Then combine an assortment of chiplets on a multi-die package, and voila! A lower-cost approach to advanced semiconductors. The...

AI Has Eaten IBM Think

by Karl Freund | May 11, 2021 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

AI pervades every session at the annual IBM event. The virtual event of “All Things IBM” has become “All Things AI”, from chips to software, Watson to SAP, and companies including SalesForce, Siemens, Natwest, Dow and others. Honestly, if I could search the Think...