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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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Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

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

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

NIST Ratifies Quantum Safe Algorithms Co-Developed By IBM Research

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

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed three algorithms co-developed by IBM Research, which are used to protect sensitive infrastructure and data from attacks by bad actors using Quantum Computers to break the existing encryption. As...

AMD Launches MI325 AI Accelerator To Challenge Nvidia. Stock Fell 4.5%

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

Chasing Nvidia is hard; Team Green simultaneously countered with new software that can triple AI performance. Consequently, AMD’s performance claims are already out of date. And AMD compared it against the older Hopper, not Blackwell which will ship long before the...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

Big AI Inference Has Become A Big Deal And A Bigger Business

by Karl Freund | March 12, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Thanks to innovations like DeepSeek, training AI has become cheaper. However, inference is becoming more demanding as we ask AI to think harder before answering our questions. Nvidia, Groq, and Cerebras Systems (clients of Cambrian-AI Research) have all released...

Cadence Design Is Working With Renesas To Build The World’s First LLM Tool For Up-Front Chip Design

by Karl Freund | September 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company sees this as an augmentation, not a replacement, for its portfolio of reinforcement learning AI tools that improve the productivity of chip design teams, addressing the most challenging part of chip design. Cadence has been aggressively rolling out...

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...

Qualcomm Research Examines On-Device AI Learning

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

On-device training capability would enhance the user experience while protecting privacy. We’ve all had those frustrating experiences with our mobile phones when the voice assistant seems to possess artificial stupidity instead of artificial intelligence. The real...

NVIDIA Omniverse: The Useful Metaverse

by Karl Freund | October 18, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Omniverse is not a toy; it enables digital twins of the real world as it exists, or as it will become. A few weeks ago I read an article on another media platform that asserted the need for the metaverse to embrace users beyond the creative teams of game developers...

Skipping Nvidia Left Amazon, Apple And Tesla Behind In AI

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

Everyone thinks they are a comic. And everyone in big cap high tech thinks they can design better and/or cheaper AI chip alternatives to the industry-leader, Nvidia. Turns out, it’s simply not that easy. Apple and AWS have recently run aground in AI growth, and Tesla...