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Tenstorrent Opens Office In Japan To Capitalize On RISC-V + AI

by Karl Freund | Mar 14, 2023 | In the News

Is the company setting up the first RISC-V HPC win? Tenstorrent, the Toronto-based semiconductor company, now led by the super-star chip designer Jim Keller, has just opened a new office in Japan. So, as many other AI startups are struggling, Tenstorrent is doubling...

BrainChip Readies 2nd Gen Platform For Power-Efficient Edge AI

by Karl Freund | Mar 6, 2023 | In the News

The company’s event-based digital Neuromorphic IP can add efficient AI processing to SoCs. Edge AI is becoming a thing. Instead of using just an embedded microprocessor in edge applications and sending the data to a cloud for AI processing, many edge companies are...

Microsoft Beats Google To The Punch (Bowl), Adds ChatGPT To Bing

by Karl Freund | Feb 7, 2023 | In the News

That wasn’t that hard, now, was it? The Bingmasters blended the prose results from ChatGPT with advertising revenue generating web urls. I’m switching to Bing! For the last 2 months, everyone (well, investors and the media) has been speculating how ChatGPT could...

Synopsys Has Helped Over 100 Clients Use AI To Accelerate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | Feb 7, 2023 | In the News

The company’s DSO.AI is helping chip designers run more experiments, make smaller chips, and speed performance. Three years ago, EDA vendor Synopsys started helping clients use reinforcement learning, an AI technique, to accelerate and improve physical chip layout...

IBM Research Touts AI Supercomputer For Foundation AI

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

IBM has built a supercomputer, named Vela, in the IBM Cloud to help its scientists create and optimize new AI models.AI needs a lot of horsepower. IBM AI Research, which has been investigating new digital and analog processor technologies to speed the calculations AI...

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Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

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

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based designs and domain-specific solutions. And RISC-V, the open-source...

NVIDIA Earth-2: Leveraging The Omniverse To Help Understand Climate Change

by Karl Freund | April 9, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cambrian-AI Analyst Alberto Romero contributed to this article. One of the greatest challenges humanity faces today is climate change. Although changes in climate occur naturally, during the last 200 years human activities have directly influenced the otherwise normal...

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | June 14, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

For the first time, IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in the path towards useful quantum computing systems and software. IBM has published a paper in...

Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Graphcore, a UK-based startup, launched its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018. Today it introduced its second-generation product for AI, a massively parallel chip with 59.4 billion transistors that delivers some 250 Trillion...

BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge

by Karl Freund | August 22, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Unlike in image processing or large language models, few AI startups are focused on sequential data processing, which includes video processing and time-series analysis. BrainChip is just fine with that. With all the buzz around LLM generative AI, it is understandable...

The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

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

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

Nvidia Leads The HPC Landscape At SuperComputing ’24

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

Nvidia has gone from a niche provider of HPC technology to becoming a dominant force in the industry. This year’s SC event reinforces that leadership. The annual SuperComputing event in North America is taking place this week in Atlanta, Georgia, and as usual the show...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

by Karl Freund | February 14, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...

Meta Enters The Token Business, Powered By Nvidia, Cerebras And Groq

by Karl Freund | April 29, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...