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Qualcomm Becomes A Mobile AI Juggernaut.

As we approach Nvidia GTC, its worth noting that there is another player in town. Or south of town, in San Diego: Qualcomm. The company has been building AI expertise and technology for over a decade, and we believe its lead over mobile rivals in both AI hardware and...

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

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...

SiFive Lands $175M Financing

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...

Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

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...

Cerebras Gets Into The Inference Market With A Bang

Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine has only been used for AI training, but new software enables leadership inference processing performance and costs. Should Nvidia be afraid? As Cerebras prepares to go public, it has expanded its target markets and competitive stance by...

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...

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

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...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Demands More Hardware, Not Less

Discussions about Deep Seek’s impact on Nvidia is everywhere. Yesterday, I heard an investor on CNBC’s "Fast Money" program pontificate that Deep Seek and its disruptive technology mean that “Nobody needs an Nvidia H100 anymore,” much less a Blackwell. I struggle to...

Chip Design Moves To The Cloud With Synopsys And Microsoft Azure

CEO's Aart de Geus and Satya Nadella have teamed up to create the industry's first on-demand EDA Software as a Service offering on Microsoft Azure. SYNOPSYS AND MICROSOFT Synopsys and MicrosoftThe two companies have collaborated to enable engineers to design chips...

Synopsys Has Helped Over 100 Clients Use AI To Accelerate Chip Design

The company’s DSO.AI is helping chip designers run more experiments, make smaller chips, and speed performance. Three years ago, EDA vendor Synopsys started helping clients use reinforcement learning, an AI technique, to accelerate and improve physical chip layout...