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IBM Doubles Down On Its AI Cloud

by Karl Freund | Jan 31, 2024 | In the News

IBM Research has doubled the capacity of its Vela AI Supercomputer, part of the IBM Cloud, to handle the strong growth in watsonx models and has aggressive plans to continue to expand and enhance AI inferencing with its own accelerator, the IBM AIU. A year ago, IBM...

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

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

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...

Cerebras Systems Wins A Major New Client: The Mayo Clinic

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

The Mayo Clinic has one of the world’s most extensive and valuable health data sets. AI can now transform that treasure trove into better health outcomes and scientific understanding, and Cerebras has been selected to help. As we noted last Fall, Cerebras is one of...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

by Karl Freund | Dec 19, 2023 | In the News

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

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...

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IBM Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

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

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

Cadence Design Is Working With Renesas To Build The World’s First LLM Tool For Up-Front Chip Design

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

The company sees this as an augmentation, not a replacement, for its portfolio of reinforcement learning AI tools that improve the productivity of chip design teams, addressing the most challenging part of chip design. Cadence has been aggressively rolling out...

AI Chip Vendors: A Look At Who’s Who In The Zoo In 2024

by Karl Freund | February 13, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

2/15: Updated to include Tenstorrent While the Nvidia AI story has rightly captivated investor attention, competitors are readying alternatives. How might AMD, Intel, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Groq, D-Matrix and all the Cloud Service Providers impact the market? As...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

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

Two industry events have provided the stage for NVIDIA to share their plans for a proprietary Arm CPU based product line that we believe will transform their own business and the AI/HPC industry landscape. NVIDIA used the annual Computex and International Super...

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...

Tenstorrent Launches AI Chip With Conditional Execution

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

What the heck is that you ask? So, did I; but it looks promising! I continue to be amazed at the innovations that are coming to market to accelerate deep learning workloads. GraphCore, Habana Labs, Cerebras, Blaize, Groq, Perceive and others are now being joined by...

Xilinx Readies Versal AI Edge For 2022 Availability

by Karl Freund | June 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Platform includes updated AI Engine with 4- and 8-bit integer math, along with new memory architecture. Xilinx has just launched the first edge model of the flexible Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family, the third Versal to be announced in...

AMD Launches 3rd Generation EPYC

by Karl Freund | March 15, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

AMD’s new EPYC server chip promises better performance than Intel.

Hot Chips Concludes An Amazing Lineup of AI Chip Companies.

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

Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...

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...