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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...

Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

by Karl Freund | Dec 13, 2023 | In the News

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

Qualcomm Makes Its Push For PC Relevance, Leading With AI

by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2023 | In the News

Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...

Cerebras, 23’s Most Successful AI Startup, Sees A Bright Future

by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2023 | In the News

With revenue and customer commitments approaching $1B, Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine has likely generated more business than all other startup players combined. Needless to say, CEO Andrew Feldman is feeling pretty bullish about 2024. As previously discussed, Cerebras...

AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | Dec 6, 2023 | In the News

The hardware looks quite capable, but the software optimization story has a long way to go to get close to Nvidia. But given the current demand/supply imbalance, I suspect AMD can sell all they can make. AMD launched the MI300 in San Jose to an anxious audience of...

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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,...

Nvidia Rocks CES With Grace-Blackwell AI PC Platform

by Karl Freund | January 6, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Mythic Launches Industry First Analog AI Chip

by Gary Fritz | June 7, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Mythic claims 400 TOPS with 1.28B parameters on 16-chip PCIe Card Please welcome new Cambrian-AI Analyst Gary Fritz, who contributed to this article. Artificial Intelligence applications are starting to show up in everything from cell phones to supertankers. But at...

Qualcomm’s Vision: The Future Of … AI

by Karl Freund | July 19, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Mobile Chip Leader’s AI Starts In Mobile, And Grows To The Clouds Company acquires assets from Twenty Billion Neurons GmbH to bolster its AI Team. Qualcomm Technologies (QTI) is running a series of webinars titled “The Future of...”, and the most recent edition is on...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

by Karl Freund | August 12, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...

d-Matrix Emerges From Stealth With Strong AI Performance And Efficiency

by Karl Freund | November 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Startup launches “Corsair” AI platform with Digital In-Memory Computing, using on-chip SRAM memory that can produce 30,000 tokens/second at 2 ms/token latency for Llama3 70B in a single rack. Using Generative AI, called inference processing, is a memory-intensive...

Cerebras And Mayo Clinic Announce Foundation Model For Healthcare

by Karl Freund | January 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

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...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

by Karl Freund | November 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

Qualcomm Readies CPUs For The Data Center Using Nvidia NVLink Fusion

by Karl Freund | September 5, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVLink has become a second, and perhaps deeper, moat for Nvidia, following its CUDA software tools and libraries. There's a reason the AI community prefers NVLink for connecting multiple GPUs: it is mind-blowingly fast, more than three times the performance of the...