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Is Intel Turning The Corner?

by Karl Freund | Jun 16, 2023 | In the News

Intel stock is up 35% in the last three weeks on a string of good news. Is there more to come? Semiconductors have been one of the fastest growing segments on Wall Street this year. Intel has quietly recovered its losses over the last year, with the bulk of the...

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

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

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...

Is The New AMD MI300X Better Than The NVIDIA H100?

by Karl Freund | Jun 13, 2023 | In the News

AMD disclosed a few more details on the MI300 GPU, due later this year, with support for 192GB of memory on the MI300X. Here’s what we know. In today’s world of ChatGPT, everyone keeps asking if the NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs are the only platforms that can deliver the...

Cadence AI Can Increase Chip Design Quality And Chip Designer Productivity Over 1000%

by Karl Freund | Jun 13, 2023 | In the News

EDA company’s clients have finished hundreds of new tapeouts using Cadence Cerebrus AI to speed development and make chips that run faster, use less energy, and cost less. For Cadence, AI is all about increasing engineering teams’ productivity, speeding higher...

Tenstorrent Scores Big Win At LG

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

The companies will collaborate to build RISC-V, AI, and Video Codec chiplets for future automotive and TV products. We’ve been following the Toronto-based startup Tenstorrent for the last several years, where CEO Jim Keller is now steering multiple advanced designs...

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NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

by Karl Freund | November 26, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

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...

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 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...

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

by Karl Freund | November 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

As expected, Amazon AWS CEO Adam Selipsky announced updated AWS-engineered AI Training and Arm CPU chips to lower the cost of cloud services. But AWS has a problem: they have kept Nvidia at arm’s length to their detriment as Microsoft Azure increases market share. To...

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

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

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...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

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

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

by Karl Freund | March 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...

IBM Research Says Analog AI Will Be 100X More Efficient. Yes, 100X.

by Karl Freund | September 23, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM AI Hardware Research Center has delivered significant digital AI logic, and now turns their attention to solving AI problems in an entirely new way. Gary Fritz, Cambrian-AI Research Analyst, contributed to this article. AI is showing up in nearly every aspect of...