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The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

by Karl Freund | Feb 11, 2025 | In the News

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

Who Wins If The New Biden AI Export Rules Stand?

by Karl Freund | Jan 14, 2025 | In the News

While Nvidia and the European Union have expressed their displeasure with the latest salvo of AI export restrictions from the Biden administration, a few companies and countries could actually benefit from them. But the industry as a whole will suffer, and so will...

Cerebras And Mayo Clinic Announce Foundation Model For Healthcare

by Karl Freund | Jan 14, 2025 | In the News

JP Morgan’s annual Healthcare Conference is almost becoming an AI event as doctors and AI scientists collaborate to turn petabytes of clinical data into generative AI models and actionable insights. The progress made since Chat GPT’s arrival demonstrates that we are...

AI Enables Major Healthcare Advances At JP Morgan Event

by Karl Freund | Jan 13, 2025 | In the News

How do we create AI in Healthcare? If you are like me, when you see your doctor, the constant probing for data can be somewhat annoying. First, you fill out forms with endless questions about your medical and familial history. Then, your doctor asks about your...

Nvidia Rocks CES With Grace-Blackwell AI PC Platform

by Karl Freund | Jan 6, 2025 | In the News

Among a slew of AI software announcements, Nvidia founder, CEO, and fashion icon Jensen Huang announced a new platform to power AI PCs for AI developers. Many analysts had long expected this move, as the Grace (Arm) CPU coupled with a Blackwell GPU on the same package...

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NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

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

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

NVIDIA Launches Lovelace GPU, Cloud Services, Ships H100 GPUs, New Drive Thor, And ….

by Karl Freund | September 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

It’s impossible to convey the excitement of an NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang keynote address at GTC, but here’s what caught my eye this week. NVIDIA made a slew of technology and customer announcements at the Fall GTC this year. Highlights included an H100 update, a new...

Enhanced Memory Grace Hopper Superchip Could Shift Demand To NVIDIA CPU And Away From X86

by Karl Freund | August 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s new high bandwidth memory version is only available with the CPU-GPU Superchip. In addition, a new dual Grace-Hopper MGX Board offers 282GB of fast memory for large model inferencing. The AI landscape continues to change rapidly, and fast memory (HBM)...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

by Karl Freund | June 3, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia broadens its reach to ensure that AI delivers on its promises. AMD is building faster chips, faster. The Market appears to prefers the former: Nvidia is up nearly 5%, while AMD is down ~2.5% today. Which is better? Well Elon Musk said Sunday on X that his xAI...

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

by Karl Freund | January 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

NVIDIA Continues To Evolve, From Chips To Software To AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | June 1, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s Computex announcements also expand NVIDIA Certified program to DPU and Arm NVIDIA made several announcements this week in Taiwan, launching new software and services to help enterprises enter the age of AI. NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing,...

Esperanto Joins The Rush To Generative AI With A New Appliance

by Karl Freund | September 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is also working on its next generation chip which will add HPC features and higher performance with HBM instead of today’s DRAM memory. Esperanto, the company with a chip containing over 1000 cores of RISC-V, has previewed a new appliance for running...

Who Has The Fastest AI Inference, And Why Does It Matter?

by Karl Freund | November 1, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A food fight erupted at the AI HW Summit earlier this year, where three companies all claimed to offer the fastest AI processing. All were faster than GPUs. Now Cerebras has claimed insanely fast AI performance with their latest software running on the company’s...