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Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | Feb 29, 2024 | In the News

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...

AI Chip Vendors: A Look At Who’s Who In The Zoo In 2024

by Karl Freund | Feb 13, 2024 | In the News

2/15: Updated to include Tenstorrent While the Nvidia AI story has rightly captivated investor attention, competitors are readying alternatives. How might AMD, Intel, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Groq, D-Matrix and all the Cloud Service Providers impact the market? As...

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

by Karl Freund | Feb 9, 2024 | In the News

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...

Cadence Supercomputer Appliance Enables Full-Scale Digital Twins

by Karl Freund | Feb 1, 2024 | In the News

Computational Fluid Dynamics, or CFD, software simulates the flow of fluids around an object in fine detail and is indispensable to auto and aerospace manufacturers. But it takes a lot of FLOPS to simulate how a full system (a car, plane, jet engine, ...) behaves in...

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...

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NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

Who Is The Leader In AI Hardware?

by Karl Freund | November 5, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

A few months ago, I published a blog that highlighted Qualcomm’s plans to enter the data center market with the Cloud AI100 chip sometime next year. While preparing the blog, our founder and principal analyst, Patrick Moorhead, called to point out that Qualcomm ,...

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...

Qiskit Comes Of Age With Quantum Performance, New Features From IBM

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

Qiskit has emerged as the go-to development platform for quantum coders, with over 550,000 users developing quantum circuits to run on quantum machines from eight vendors. IBM Research launched Qiskit (the "Quantum Information Science Kit") in 2017 to provide...

AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | August 28, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

Intel Announces Neuromorphic Loihi 2 AI HW And Lava SW

by Karl Freund | September 30, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel Research believes that brain-like Neuromorphic computing could hold the key to AI efficiency and capabilities. Intel has announced the availability of the second generation “Loihi” chip to further research into neuromorphic computing techniques that more closely...

Enhanced Memory Grace Hopper Superchip Could Shift Demand To NVIDIA CPU And Away From X86

by Karl Freund | August 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s new high bandwidth memory version is only available with the CPU-GPU Superchip. In addition, a new dual Grace-Hopper MGX Board offers 282GB of fast memory for large model inferencing. The AI landscape continues to change rapidly, and fast memory (HBM)...

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

by Karl Freund | December 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

News Flash: NVIDIA Remains The Fastest Available AI Accelerator

by Karl Freund | July 5, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Ok, while that is hardly surprising news, given the comfortable lead NVIDIA enjoys, Google’s upcoming TPUv4 out-performed NVIDIA on three of eight benchmarks on a chip-to-chip basis, while Graphcore’s performance and price/performance is in the ball park. Meanwhile,...