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Qualcomm Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....

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Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

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...

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Could AI Help Solve The Global Chip Shortage?

In part, yes. We could tap into unused manufacturing capacity using AI, and Synopsys believes it has the AI that could do it. Today’s chip shortage is holding back global economic growth, fueling inflation, and making life difficult for consumers and businesses alike....

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

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...

Nvidia Ups Its Robotics Game With Blackwell-Based Jetson Thor

Nvidia focuses on maximum performance and efficiency. We’ve all heard the predictions: the Next Big Thing will be “Physical AI” (Nvidia) or “Embodied AI” (Qualcomm). Jensen Huang has predicted that in a decade, there will be more robots than humans on Earth. These...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...

Promising Returns For Synopsys.ai Suite Of AI Solutions

Synopsys is seeing strong demand for its newer AI technologies in test, verification, manufacturing and analog migration, in addition to the ongoing need for design optimization (DSO.ai). Synopsys was the first Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company to provide AI...

A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...

AMD To Power ‘El Capitan’ Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National...

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)...

News Flash: NVIDIA Remains The Fastest Available AI Accelerator

Ok, while that is hardly surprising news, given the comfortable lead NVIDIA enjoys, Google’s upcoming TPUv4 out-performed NVIDIA on three of eight benchmarks on a chip-to-chip basis, while Graphcore’s performance and price/performance is in the ball park. Meanwhile,...