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Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again.

by Karl Freund | Mar 27, 2024 | In the News

Nvidia did not submit results for Blackwell either, as it wasn’t ready when results had to be submitted, but still won the race with the Hopper GPU by up to 4X. Too bad for AMD, as they probably have the most to gain by publishing results for the MI300, even if Hopper...

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

by Karl Freund | Mar 25, 2024 | In the News

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...

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

by Karl Freund | Mar 25, 2024 | In the News

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...

Buckle Up! Here’s The Hot News From Nvidia GTC 2024

by Karl Freund | Mar 18, 2024 | In the News

There is so much to share, so here is our take from Jensen’s Keynote address... After a five year Covid hiatus, Jensen Huang took the stage for an in-person Keynote at the SAP Arena to an adoring crowd of techies and investors. Like in the olden days, the man in the...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

by Karl Freund | Mar 18, 2024 | In the News

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

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NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

by Karl Freund | June 27, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

Untether AI Touts “At-Memory” Architecture, Promising Efficiency And Performance At The Edge

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

Every AI hardware startup begins at square one: design a novel architecture to accelerate deep neural network training and inference processing. Some focus on training, where performance is king, where even price is a secondary consideration in these early days of AI....

Will AMD’s MI300 Beat NVIDIA In AI?

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The upcoming MI300, which will ship Latter this year after NVIDIA’s Grace/Hopper Superchip, certainly has a shot at it. But there remain a lot of unknowns that will determine how well it performs for AI applications. And then there is Software. Yeah, Software. Lots of...

Synopsys Lays Out The Benefits Of AI

by Karl Freund | May 22, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

At the annual Synopsys User Group Meeting, CEO Aart de Geuss explains the industry dynamics in an engineering world transformed by AI. I won’t start this blog by talking about Chat GPT. You’re tired of hearing about it, right? But the same technology (reinforcement...

Tenstorrent Opens Office In Japan To Capitalize On RISC-V + AI

by Karl Freund | March 14, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Is the company setting up the first RISC-V HPC win? Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based semiconductor company, now led by the super-star chip designer Jim Keller, has just opened a new office in Japan. So, as many other AI startups are struggling, Tenstorrent is doubling...

NVIDIA AI Runs The Mlperf Table Again

by Karl Freund | August 17, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, the industry standard AI benchmarking group, mlperf, released its 3rd raft of submissions for training AI networks, and just like the first two releases, NVIDIA swept a sparse competitive field in the category of commercially available hardware and software....

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...

Intel Announces Neuromorphic Loihi 2 AI HW And Lava SW

by Karl Freund | September 30, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel Research believes that brain-like Neuromorphic computing could hold the key to AI efficiency and capabilities. Intel has announced the availability of the second generation “Loihi” chip to further research into neuromorphic computing techniques that more closely...

Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

by Karl Freund | January 7, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Its got to be tough being an Nvidia competitor. You think you are close to catching up, perhaps even taking the lead, and then, bang! Nvidia brings out yet another latest and greatest. This year brings perhaps the biggest generational change ever witnessed in Nvidia,...

NVIDIA Launches New GPUs And Services for Generative AI Inferencing

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

A new PCI-card with 12 times more inference throughput for large models like ChatGPT and NeMo services for Foundation Model customizations. Jensen Huang was thoroughly enjoying his virtual stage time at this year's GTC event. Why not? His company’s stock is up 80%...