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Cadence Automates PCB Design With AI Super Agents

by Karl Freund | Jul 15, 2026 | In the News

Cadence has been rolling out new “Super Agents” at an impressive pace to provide chip design teams with agentic AI support across the chip design workflow. The latest iteration will cut the time needed to design the Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and advanced...

Qualcomm Lays Out New Data Center Roadmap For AI; Meta Buys It

by Karl Freund | Jun 24, 2026 | In the News

At the Qualcomm 2026 Investor Day, the company disclosed it’s data center roadmap and, perhaps more importantly, announced that Meta has entered into a multi-year, multi-generation agreement with Qualcomm to deploy its data center technologies. This is a strong...

As Agentic AI Reshapes Computing, Could It Reshape Qualcomm?

by Karl Freund | Jun 17, 2026 | In the News

Many have heard a lot about Agentic AI, and how it will impact our lives, our businesses, and even our relationships with computing devices. This article lays out the basic landscape for agentic AI infrastructure, spanning personal devices, edge computing, and...

Tensordyne Revives Logarithmic Math In A Bid To Cut AI Power Use

by Karl Freund | Jun 15, 2026 | In the News

Remember in high school when your math teacher tried to teach (logarithmic) log math? Yeah, me either. But now Tensordyne, a startup based in Germany and California, has launched an AI accelerator that operates in the logarithmic domain, claiming a 17-fold improvement...

Nvidia And Cadence Claim Breakthrough In AI-Powered Chip Design

by Karl Freund | Jun 1, 2026 | In the News

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...

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NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again

by Karl Freund | April 21, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...

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...

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...

Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

by Karl Freund | October 31, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...

Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

by Karl Freund | October 22, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | February 24, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

Cadence Supercomputer Appliance Enables Full-Scale Digital Twins

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

Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, software simulates the flow of fluids around an object in fine detail and is indispensable to auto and aerospace manufacturers. But it takes a lot of FLOPS to simulate how a full system (a car, plane, jet engine, ...) behaves in...

Qualcomm Is Still The Most Efficient AI Accelerator For Image Processing

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

Company’s recent design wins will help Qualcomm turn MLPerf benchmarks into sales. AI energy efficiency matters! Ever since Qualcomm announced its first-generation cloud edge AI processor, the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100, the company has been at the top of the leader board...

Synopsys, Cadence, Google And NVIDIA All Agree: Use AI To Help Design Chips

by Karl Freund | August 14, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...

Flex Sees Opportunities In The New AI Data Center

by Karl Freund | November 22, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Data center cooling is hot. At least it’s becoming a hot market, with industry projections likely to increase as the Nvidia Blackwell GPU push increases the percentage of silicon that requires liquid cooling. Goldman Sachs estimates the server cooling market is...