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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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IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

by Karl Freund | October 21, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

Flex Announces Liquid-Cooled Rack And Power Solutions At OCP Event

by Karl Freund | October 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Flex is expanding its role in the AI data center market with power, cooling and infrastructure solutions for the most demanding AI servers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the data center, creating opportunities to help manage the flow of power and cooling...

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...

NVIDIA Earth-2: Leveraging The Omniverse To Help Understand Climate Change

by Karl Freund | April 9, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cambrian-AI Analyst Alberto Romero contributed to this article. One of the greatest challenges humanity faces today is climate change. Although changes in climate occur naturally, during the last 200 years human activities have directly influenced the otherwise normal...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

by Karl Freund | April 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...

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

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

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...

Intel Innovation: AI Everywhere

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

That phrase has dual meanings: AI will run everywhere, and AI was everywhere at the event. Pat Gelsinger’s keynote made it clear where Intel plans to innovate: AI. No surprise to anyone with a pulse, to be sure, but his enthusiasm was infectious. Every Intel employee...

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...

Intel’s New Chips Focus On AI

by Karl Freund | July 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, Intel launched and disclosed new technologies across its portfolio of processors, with special emphasis on enhanced AI capabilities. Unlike its many competitors, who either produce a CPU, a GPU, an FPGA or an AI-specific accelerator, Intel’s strategy is “all of...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | June 20, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a...