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Story Correction: TechSpot Now Says AMD Believes That “AI Will Be Important To All Our Products Going Forward”

by Karl Freund | Sep 20, 2023 | In the News

TechSpot has issued a retraction, says the reporter ‘misrepresented’ AMD spokesperson… this article has been subsequently updated…. TechSpot issued a correction on their interview with Justin Galton of AMD, noting “…unfortunately the source for that story...

Cadence Design Announces Second-Generation IP For Edge AI

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

AI is penetrating nearly every market and every device, causing leading microprocessor developers to rethink their SoC to enable fast AI execution at low power. The global edge AI hardware market size was valued at $6.88 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach...

SiMa.ai Creates Drag-And-Drop Platform For Building AI Workflows

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

Assuming it is the software that enables or prevents the adoption of a new AI chip, a reasonable assumption, SiMa has created a new tool called Palette Edgematic to simplify AI solution creation greatly. And build demand for their silicon. As everyone says, “It’s the...

Esperanto Joins The Rush To Generative AI With A New Appliance

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

The company is also working on its next generation chip which will add HPC features and higher performance with HBM instead of today’s DRAM memory. Esperanto, the company with a chip containing over 1000 cores of RISC-V, has previewed a new appliance for running...

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

by Karl Freund | Sep 11, 2023 | In the News

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

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

by Karl Freund | March 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

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

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

NVIDIA Is Not A Chip Company. It’s A Platform Company.

by Karl Freund | November 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA extends its lead in accelerated computing, announcing platforms for the metaverse, healthcare, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and data center security at the GTC Conference. NVIDIA, probably on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company, has been...

Is The AMD GPU Better Than We Thought For AI?

by Karl Freund | June 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

MosaicML, just acquired by DataBricks for $1.3B, published some interesting benchmarks for training LLMs on the AMD MI250 GPU, and said it is ~80% as fast as an NVIDIA A100. Did the world just change? To be brutally honest, everyone wants to see a fight, between AMD...

Why Nvidia Is Entering The $30B Market For Custom Chips

by Karl Freund | February 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia’s largest customers (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI) are developing AI chips that compete with Nvidia, presenting a potential long-term threat to the AI leader. Jensen’s response? “We can help you do that.” Warning: this blog contains...

Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | February 29, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Normally, an AI Industry Analyst like myself would not take notice of a new version of Ethernet; its IP is fairly staid technology these days. But now the demands of high performance AI has changed the game, again. CPU, Accelerators, and Switch vendors depend on...

Cerebras Files For The Very First Generative AI IPO

by Karl Freund | October 2, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

If Cerebras can grow beyond its initial benefactor, G42, this IPO will be a rocket ship. If not, … It may be hard to believe, but there hasn’t been a single IPO for an AI hardware company. Period. Not One. Why? Because none of the startups have yet to achieve the...

IBM Shares Quantum Use Cases In Dazzling New Book

by Karl Freund | March 15, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) has published a beautiful book, good to read and also a substantial addition to any executive office: the fourth edition of The Quantum Decade. The 168-page tome written by over 70 professionals in every industry, clearly...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

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

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...