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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...

Nvidia Improves Performance With 5x Faster AI. Yes, Software Matters.

by Karl Freund | Dec 5, 2023 | In the News

Nvidia’s pre-emptive strike may blunt AMD MI300 news, pointing to the company's key advantage in AI software. AMD will host a big announcement this week in San Jose, where the company will announce details about its new flagship GPU for generative AI, the MI300....

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

by Karl Freund | Dec 4, 2023 | In the News

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

by Karl Freund | Nov 29, 2023 | In the News

As expected, Amazon AWS CEO Adam Selipsky announced updated AWS-engineered AI Training and Arm CPU chips to lower the cost of cloud services. But AWS has a problem: they have kept Nvidia at arm’s length to their detriment as Microsoft Azure increases market share. To...

The Good, Bad, And Ugly From Supercomputing ‘23, Or Nearby

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

This year’s event was as much about AI as it was about HPC. The only booths not talking about AI were, well, nobody. Everyone was touting the miracles of AI, from CPUs to accelerators to system companies to networking vendors to storage to clouds to water cooling...

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With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

by Karl Freund | April 5, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

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...

Chip Design Moves To The Cloud With Synopsys And Microsoft Azure

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

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

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...

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

by Karl Freund | February 10, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

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

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | October 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

Intel, GraphCore And Groq: Let The AI Cambrian Explosion Begin

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...