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Synopsys Opens The Next Chapter Of AI Tools For Chip Design And Manufacturing

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

The EDA leader has generated over $500M to date in AI tools and technologies. Now a new data analytics solution applies data management, curation, and analysis across the entire pipeline of chip creation. Synopsys was the first EDA company to apply AI to chip design,...

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

by Karl Freund | Aug 30, 2023 | In the News

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...

BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge

by Karl Freund | Aug 22, 2023 | In the News

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...

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...

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

by Karl Freund | February 7, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Is 3X More Efficient. What’s Missing?

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...

Cambrian-AI 2022 Predictions: Expect More Than Just New Chips

by Karl Freund | February 8, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...

Intel, GraphCore And Groq: Let The AI Cambrian Explosion Begin

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...

Eliyan Technology May Rewrite How Chiplets Come Together

by Karl Freund | April 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s interconnect eliminates the need for expensive interposers, accelerating AI processing; could double the amount of memory for AI like ChatGTP, saving millions. Artificial Intelligence is finally having its iPhone moment. The launch of ChatGPT led to waves of...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

by Karl Freund | October 6, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...

Cadence Design And Nvidia Team To Create AI Data Center Digital Twin

by Karl Freund | September 19, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The data center business is in a bit of a panic. Demand is skyrocketing. Rack power requirements have increased from ~12KW per rack to over 125 KW in just the last year. Now they are preparing for a Gigawatt rack in the next two to three years (Nvidia Rubin Ultra)....

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

Beware The AI Benchmarks!

by Karl Freund | February 19, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Common Pitfalls In AI Benchmark Claims Most AI hardware purchase decisions follow lengthy evaluations running models and data representative of the application under development. Thats how decisions are made, and should be made. However, in typical AI hardware...

Using AI To Build Better Chips

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

With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...