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Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...

Why Nvidia Is Entering The $30B Market For Custom Chips

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...

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

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...

NVIDIA GTC: “DPU” Smart NIC And More

NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rarely disappoints his audience nor his investors. This week he once again delivered the goods at the GPU Technology Conference. Announcing a broad range of hardware and software innovations, Jensen made it clear that he intends...

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

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...

Q2 Competitive Update: The AI Cambrian Explosion Rolls On

A lot of new AI Silicon and Software has been announced since March and it can be tough to keep track of it all. To help users, vendors, and investors keep track, our June Competitive Landscape Report is now available, and for a limited time, the ~70-page report is...

Qualcomm Doubles The Smart In Smartphones

For the last decade, a “smart phone” was defined by its ability to run applications locally on the device. These days, however, “smart” means features powered by AI, with intelligent applications such as enhanced computational photography, voice processing and gaming...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

AI Has Eaten IBM Think

AI pervades every session at the annual IBM event. The virtual event of “All Things IBM” has become “All Things AI”, from chips to software, Watson to SAP, and companies including SalesForce, Siemens, Natwest, Dow and others. Honestly, if I could search the Think...

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...