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

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2023 | In the News

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...

How Enfabrica Is Reimagining, And Disrupting, The AI Data Center

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2023 | In the News

The AIHW and Edge AI Summit had a treasure trove of insightful presentations from luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Lip-Bu Tan, Marc Tremblay, and many others. I hope to get around to writing about what I learned, but first, I want to share the innovations from a startup...

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...

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Neutral-Atom Quantum: What Is It, And Why Infleqtion Stands Out

by Karl Freund | May 14, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Late last year, I wrote a Forbes piece about IBM, the leader in quantum computing using superconducting circuits, and promised an update on other modalities. This is the first follow-on piece and explores neutral-atom (NA) quantum, which operates at room temperature,...

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven Solutions

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

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi takes the stage for the first time as CEO at SNUG, joined by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to discuss the companies’ collaboration and much more. I never knew how close Synopsys and Nvidia were! Apparently, according to Jensen, Synopsys delivered...

Tenstorrent Launches AI Chip With Conditional Execution

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

What the heck is that you ask? So, did I; but it looks promising! I continue to be amazed at the innovations that are coming to market to accelerate deep learning workloads. GraphCore, Habana Labs, Cerebras, Blaize, Groq, Perceive and others are now being joined by...

The US CHIPS Act Shines Spotlight On IBM Semiconductor Technology

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The recent legislation creates an opportunity for IBM to play a pivotal role in a resurgent US semi industry. One day, soon I hope, I hope to write a story about IBM hardware without first correcting the misconception that the IT company has exited the hardware...

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...

Xilinx Readies Versal AI Edge For 2022 Availability

by Karl Freund | June 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Platform includes updated AI Engine with 4- and 8-bit integer math, along with new memory architecture. Xilinx has just launched the first edge model of the flexible Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family, the third Versal to be announced in...

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...

NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

AI Enables Major Healthcare Advances At JP Morgan Event

by Karl Freund | January 13, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

How do we create AI in Healthcare? If you are like me, when you see your doctor, the constant probing for data can be somewhat annoying. First, you fill out forms with endless questions about your medical and familial history. Then, your doctor asks about your...

New Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster Eliminates Months Of Painstaking Work To Build Massive Intelligence

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

The architecture eliminates the need to decompose large models for distributed computing to train: Push-button AI? The hottest trend in AI is the emergence of massive models such as Open AI’s GPT-3. These models are surprising even its developers with capabilities...