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IBM Helps Clients Prepare For A Quantum-Safe World

by Karl Freund | May 10, 2023 | In the News

IBM unveils new software to help clients protect data that someday could become threatened by quantum code-breakers. Quantum computing has the potential to create immense business benefits, and the social implications of quantum technologies are likely to be...

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

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

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...

Tenstorrent Could Reshape The AI And CPU Competitive Landscape

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

Now led by Jim Keller, the company has built a new leadership team and a new strategy. It has tremendous potential. Now it must execute. Introduction It is hard to believe the difference a year makes. In 2021, there were over 100 public and venture-backed startups...

SiMa.ai Sets A New Standard In Embedded Edge Power Efficiency

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

For power-constrained edge applications, SiMa tops the leader, NVIDIA Orin, according to the company’s recent MLPerf results and more. There’s big AI like ChatGPT, and then there is useful AI embedded at the edge. At in these environments, available power could be...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

by Karl Freund | Apr 5, 2023 | In the News

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

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Qualcomm Makes Its Push For PC Relevance, Leading With AI

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...

NVIDIA Needed A CPU, But Did It Need To Buy Arm To Get One?

by Karl Freund | September 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

I often opine that NVIDIA needs a data center-class CPU to compete with Intel and AMD, both of whom have used tightly-coupled CPU/GPU technology to win the first three U.S. exascale supercomputer deals. Connecting massive GPUs to fast CPUs over a painfully slow PCIe...

Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

Will Nvidia GTC Mark The Peak Of AI?

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

In these explosive times and stock market surges, let’s look at where we might find the nuggets of new growth. Nvidia will focus on additional growth opportunities in Inference processing, Software, Edge, and Automotive; Nvidia is nowhere near Peak AI. Yes, GTC is a...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...

Xilinx Reveals More Versal Details

by Karl Freund | September 10, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Xilinx held an “Innovation Day” event this week to share more details about the technologies the company hopes will forge a larger footprint in the data center. After listening to eight presentations and having intriguing discussions with the company’s leading...

Qualcomm Doubles The Smart In Smartphones

by Karl Freund | December 27, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

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...

GrAI Matter Labs: Brain-Inspired AI For The Edge

by Karl Freund | June 1, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

This article was written by Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, and Karl Freund, Cambrian-AI Founder.We recently tweeted about the startup GrAI Matter Labs (GML) and received a lot of questions about the company’s products and strategy. As one of the first startups...

NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | September 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

TensorRT-LLM adds a slew of new performance-enhancing features to all NVIDIA GPUs. Just ahead of the next round of MLPerf benchmarks, NVIDIA has announced a new TensorRT software for Large Language Models (LLMs) that can dramatically improve performance and efficiency...

Who Wins If The New Biden AI Export Rules Stand?

by Karl Freund | January 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While Nvidia and the European Union have expressed their displeasure with the latest salvo of AI export restrictions from the Biden administration, a few companies and countries could actually benefit from them. But the industry as a whole will suffer, and so will...