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Enhanced Memory Grace Hopper Superchip Could Shift Demand To NVIDIA CPU And Away From X86

by Karl Freund | Aug 8, 2023 | In the News

The company’s new high bandwidth memory version is only available with the CPU-GPU Superchip. In addition, a new dual Grace-Hopper MGX Board offers 282GB of fast memory for large model inferencing. The AI landscape continues to change rapidly, and fast memory (HBM)...

Hyundai And Samsung Lead $100M Investment Round In Tenstorrent

by Karl Freund | Aug 2, 2023 | In the News

Partners make great investors because their intent is to secure influence and gain access to advanced technology. Hyundai Motor Group and the Samsung Catalyst Fund have co-led a $100M investment in Tenstorrent, and both companies plan to use Tenstorrent’ tech. I love...

Micron Looks To Be First To Market With HBM3 Update For Generative AI And HPC

by Karl Freund | Jul 26, 2023 | In the News

According to the company, the new Gen-2 of HBM increases memory capacity by 50%, with another bump in the works for 2024. As you may have heard, in addition to NVIDIA GPUs, generative AI eats memory for lunch. And dinner. In fact, running ChatGPT takes 8 or 16 GPUs...

Promising Returns For Synopsys.ai Suite Of AI Solutions

by Karl Freund | Jul 24, 2023 | In the News

Synopsys is seeing strong demand for its newer AI technologies in test, verification, manufacturing and analog migration, in addition to the ongoing need for design optimization (DSO.ai). Synopsys was the first Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company to provide AI...

Cerebras Lands Huge AI Deal: A 36 Exaflop Monster

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

The Wafer-Scale Engine company has been working for 8 years to break into the top tier of AI computing. This deal might just assure its success. We have been watching Cerebras for a long time, from its launch of the first wafer-scale engine for AI to its recent...

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Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

by Karl Freund | May 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...

NVIDIA Acquires Bright Computing For Cluster Management

by Karl Freund | January 24, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Privately-held Bright is a favorite of HPC users, and will reinforce NVIDIA’s strategy of providing full-stack solutions for Enterprise HPC and AI. Bright Computing has been around since 2009, providing large-scale cluster management for HPC installations. The...

NVIDIA L40S: A Datacenter GPU For Omniverse And Graphics That Can Also Accelerate AI Training & Inference

by Karl Freund | August 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

I’m getting a lot of inquiries from investors about the potential for this new GPU and for good reasons; it is fast! NVIDIA announced a new passively-cooled GPU at SIGGRAPH, the PCIe-based L40S, and most of us analysts just considered this to be an upgrade to the...

Yes, AMD Believes AI On The PC Is Important. And They Already Have It.

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

Recently, TechSpot erroneously reported otherwise, and I expressed my surprise and dismay here on Forbes. Now, lets set the record straight: AMD has been shipping the industry’s first AI-enabled x86 CPU chip for PCs since May. The company has been shipping a high-end...

Don’t Trust AI? NVIDIA Guardrails May Lower Your Anxiety, And Save Your Job.

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

A new Nemo Open-Source toolkit allow engineers to easily build a front-end to any Large Language Model to control topic range, safety, and security. We’ve all read about or experienced the major issue of the day when it comes to large language models (LLMs). “My LLM...

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

by Karl Freund | September 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

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...

AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | December 6, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

Nvidia Matures Its AI, While AMD Plays Catchup At Computex

by Karl Freund | June 3, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia broadens its reach to ensure that AI delivers on its promises. AMD is building faster chips, faster. The Market appears to prefers the former: Nvidia is up nearly 5%, while AMD is down ~2.5% today. Which is better? Well Elon Musk said Sunday on X that his xAI...