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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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Is The New AMD MI300X Better Than The NVIDIA H100?

by Karl Freund | June 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

AMD disclosed a few more details on the MI300 GPU, due later this year, with support for 192GB of memory on the MI300X. Here’s what we know. In today’s world of ChatGPT, everyone keeps asking if the NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs are the only platforms that can deliver the...

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...

Need A Chat-Bot For Your Business? Try NVIDIA NeMo.

by Karl Freund | March 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nemo can help organizations tailor AI Models to focus on a smaller domain; and perhaps avoid costly mistakes! Lesley Stahl: “Oh, my god. It's wrong!” The veteran reporter was aghast that Microsoft Bing could get something so easy so wrong. Ms. Stahl was interviewing...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

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

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

In The Latest AI Benchmarks, Nvidia Remains The Champ, But Qualcomm Is Rising Fast

by Karl Freund | September 22, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA rules the performance roost, Qualcomm demonstrates exceptional power efficiency, and Intel demonstrates the power of software. Every three months, the not-for-profit group MLCommons publishes a slew of peer-reviewed MLPerf benchmark results for deep learning,...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

by Karl Freund | October 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

Cambrian-AI 2022 Predictions: Expect More Than Just New Chips

by Karl Freund | February 8, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...

Hyundai And Samsung Lead $100M Investment Round In Tenstorrent

by Karl Freund | August 2, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Partners make great investors because their intent is to secure influence and gain access to advanced technology. Hyundai Motor Group and the Samsung Catalyst Fund have co-led a $100M investment in Tenstorrent, and both companies plan to use Tenstorrent’ tech. I love...

Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

by Karl Freund | March 30, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

A bunch of industry analyst got to spend 90 minutes with the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA today to discuss his GTC announcements, and the future of the computing landscape. This was not an unusual occurrence. Jensen always makes himself available, and no analyst...