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Synopsys Certifies AI-Lead Design And IP Solutions For Samsung’s 2nm

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News

2nm is the Next Big Thing in chip production, and Synopsys design tools and IP are now ready for production work and tape-outs on Samsung’s latest fab. Samsung has its eyes on the prize, hoping to secure more design wins as it competes with TSMC for the semiconductor...

MLPerf Training 4.0: It’s All About Scale

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2024 | In the News

While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...

Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

by Karl Freund | Jun 3, 2024 | In the News

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...

Qiskit Comes Of Age With Quantum Performance, New Features From IBM

by Karl Freund | May 15, 2024 | In the News

Qiskit has emerged as the go-to development platform for quantum coders, with over 550,000 users developing quantum circuits to run on quantum machines from eight vendors. IBM Research launched Qiskit (the "Quantum Information Science Kit") in 2017 to provide...

MediaTek Aims To Become A Player In Huge Markets

by Karl Freund | May 10, 2024 | In the News

MediaTek mobile phone SoCs have historically been considered a) Asian, and b) low end. Thats all about to change with their Dimensity 9300 chip, which also enables entry into markets like the IoT and automotive, where the company is partnering with Nvidia for Advanced...

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IBM Doubles Down On Its AI Cloud

by Karl Freund | January 31, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Two Can’t-Miss Events For AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | October 3, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

There are two conferences coming up that AI developers, executives, and investors should consider attending to get the latest from the industry’s leaders and challengers. I will attend both and I hope to see many of my readers there! Let’s take a closer look at what’s...

Synopsys.ai: New AI Solutions Across The Entire Chip Development Workflow

by Karl Freund | March 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys has added AI-based Verification and Test to its already-successful Design solution, DSO.ai, with more to come. Three years ago, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution provider Synopsys took the bold step to add reinforcement learning to its chip design...

IBM Invests In AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | April 10, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...

Could EDA AI Startups Be The New Claude Of Chip Design?

by Karl Freund | August 3, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

A few months ago I wrote an article on Forbes about Cadence Design SuperAgents that front-end the company’s chip design tools to speed elements of the design workflow by up to 10X, according to the company. Now, several EDA AI startups have entered the game with...

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 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%...

Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

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

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

by Karl Freund | January 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...

IBM Research Secures Future Safe From Quantum Attacks

by Karl Freund | October 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Quantum computing will bring unimagined innovations to the world when it finally arrives in full glory. Still, quantum remains in the research labs at companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft. While companies and research institutions are investing billions of...