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

by Karl Freund | Sep 20, 2023 | In the News

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...

Cadence Design Announces Second-Generation IP For Edge AI

by Karl Freund | Sep 13, 2023 | In the News

AI is penetrating nearly every market and every device, causing leading microprocessor developers to rethink their SoC to enable fast AI execution at low power. The global edge AI hardware market size was valued at $6.88 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach...

SiMa.ai Creates Drag-And-Drop Platform For Building AI Workflows

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

Assuming it is the software that enables or prevents the adoption of a new AI chip, a reasonable assumption, SiMa has created a new tool called Palette Edgematic to simplify AI solution creation greatly. And build demand for their silicon. As everyone says, “It’s the...

Esperanto Joins The Rush To Generative AI With A New Appliance

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

The company is also working on its next generation chip which will add HPC features and higher performance with HBM instead of today’s DRAM memory. Esperanto, the company with a chip containing over 1000 cores of RISC-V, has previewed a new appliance for running...

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

by Karl Freund | Sep 11, 2023 | In the News

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

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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...

Intel Habana Launches 2nd Gen AI Chips

by Karl Freund | May 16, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Habana launches new chips for training and inference, claiming 2X performance advantage over last generation NVIDIA A100 Habana launched their 1st chip at the inaugural Kisaco AI Hardware Summit in 2018 with excellent performance and efficiency. Unfortunately for...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...

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...

Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

by Karl Freund | October 22, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

AMD Announces MI350 GPU And Future Roadmap Details

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

AMD held their now-annual Advancing AI event today in Silicon Valley, with new GPUs, new networking, new software, and even a rack-scale architecture for 2026/27 to better compete with the Nvidia NVL72 that is taking the AI world by storm. Let’s dive in! Net-Net...

AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

by Karl Freund | February 26, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

Qualcomm Has Become A Leader In Automotive Automation

by Karl Freund | October 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm's auto-related revenue jumped 87% year over year in the second quarter this year, well ahead of rivals Nvidia and Mobileye. Qualcomm estimated its automotive pipeline to be $45B earlier this year, double that of the previous year. Qualcomm's automotive...

Google AI Shot Heard Globally; Another Shoe Is About To Drop

by Karl Freund | November 25, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI sphere is abuzz lately with news and rumors that the latest Google TPU, Ironwood, is powering the Gemini3 model, outpacing OpenAI on many metrics including intelligence and performance. Now, The Information, echoed by Bloomberg and CNBC, is reporting that...

NVIDIA Launches Lovelace GPU, Cloud Services, Ships H100 GPUs, New Drive Thor, And ….

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

It’s impossible to convey the excitement of an NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang keynote address at GTC, but here’s what caught my eye this week. NVIDIA made a slew of technology and customer announcements at the Fall GTC this year. Highlights included an H100 update, a new...