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Qualcomm Makes Its Push For PC Relevance, Leading With AI

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

Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...

Cerebras, 23’s Most Successful AI Startup, Sees A Bright Future

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

With revenue and customer commitments approaching $1B, Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine has likely generated more business than all other startup players combined. Needless to say, CEO Andrew Feldman is feeling pretty bullish about 2024. As previously discussed, Cerebras...

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...

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The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

by Karl Freund | February 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

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

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

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...

Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | February 24, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

Is Nvidia Competing With Its GPU Cloud Partners?

by Karl Freund | June 17, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia recently announced two new cloud initiatives. First, the company announced DGX Cloud Lepton, designed to connect artificial intelligence developers with Nvidia’s wide network of cloud providers. Second, Nvidia announced a new cloud service, the Industrial AI...