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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...

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...

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A Deeper Look Into Qualcomm’s MLPerf Results

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

Qualcomm not only bested the entire field for power efficiency, a 16-card server was the fastest tested. Qualcomm, perhaps best known for its leadership Snapdragon mobile platform, has further enhanced its AI bona fides with V1.1 MLPerf inference benchmark suite...

Qualcomm Readies CPUs For The Data Center Using Nvidia NVLink Fusion

by Karl Freund | September 5, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVLink has become a second, and perhaps deeper, moat for Nvidia, following its CUDA software tools and libraries. There's a reason the AI community prefers NVLink for connecting multiple GPUs: it is mind-blowingly fast, more than three times the performance of the...

NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance

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

TensorRT-LLM adds a slew of new performance-enhancing features to all NVIDIA GPUs. Just ahead of the next round of MLPerf benchmarks, NVIDIA has announced a new TensorRT software for Large Language Models (LLMs) that can dramatically improve performance and efficiency...

NVIDIA Completely Re-Imagines The Data Center For AI

by Karl Freund | April 12, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

It is all about tighter integration with memory, CPUs, and accelerators for trillion-parameter AI models. For 12 years, NVIDIA has used its Spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to amaze its customers and investors with new GPUs for graphics and application...

Will AMD’s MI300 Beat NVIDIA In AI?

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The upcoming MI300, which will ship Latter this year after NVIDIA’s Grace/Hopper Superchip, certainly has a shot at it. But there remain a lot of unknowns that will determine how well it performs for AI applications. And then there is Software. Yeah, Software. Lots of...

IBM To Deploy Quantum System In The Basque Country Of Spain.

by Karl Freund | March 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

127-qubit Quantum System One to advance quantum science in Southern Europe IBM has announced that it has contracted with Fundación Ikerbasque to install and manage a new Quantum computer system, including Qiskit Runtime Services, in the Basque Country. The 127-qubit...

Mythic Launches Industry First Analog AI Chip

by Gary Fritz | June 7, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Mythic claims 400 TOPS with 1.28B parameters on 16-chip PCIe Card Please welcome new Cambrian-AI Analyst Gary Fritz, who contributed to this article. Artificial Intelligence applications are starting to show up in everything from cell phones to supertankers. But at...

Qualcomm Is Still The Most Efficient AI Accelerator For Image Processing

by Karl Freund | September 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s recent design wins will help Qualcomm turn MLPerf benchmarks into sales. AI energy efficiency matters! Ever since Qualcomm announced its first-generation cloud edge AI processor, the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100, the company has been at the top of the leader board...

Cerebras Lands Huge AI Deal: A 36 Exaflop Monster

by Karl Freund | July 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Wafer-Scale Engine company has been working for 8 years to break into the top tier of AI computing. This deal might just assure its success. We have been watching Cerebras for a long time, from its launch of the first wafer-scale engine for AI to its recent...

IBM Announces Next Telum Mainframe Processor With AI Accelerators

by Karl Freund | August 26, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM has announced the Telum II Processor with shared on-chip AI and, perhaps surprisingly, the Spyre Accelerator, delivered on a PCIe card and designed to accelerate AI models, including LLM Generative AI. The new chips will ship in the yet-to-be-announced...