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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...

As Nvidia Approaches $1 Trillion, It Announces AI Tech To Surpass $2 Trillion

by Karl Freund | May 29, 2023 | In the News

New tech shows the synergies that combining CPU, DPU and GPU can enable in AI. Especially in very large AI. After steering a 25% rise in Nvidia shares last week, CEO Jensen Huang flew to Computex in Taipei to announce a slew of new products demonstrating how his...

Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

by Karl Freund | May 23, 2023 | In the News

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...

Synopsys Lays Out The Benefits Of AI

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

At the annual Synopsys User Group Meeting, CEO Aart de Geuss explains the industry dynamics in an engineering world transformed by AI. I won’t start this blog by talking about Chat GPT. You’re tired of hearing about it, right? But the same technology (reinforcement...

Esperanto Sees A Bright Future For RISC-V In AI And HPC

by Karl Freund | May 12, 2023 | In the News

The company is shipping its first-gen chip globally, with over 1000 cores at only 25 watts of power. Can it break into Generative AI? Suddenly, AI has become the hottest investment and cocktail party topic de jour. But the estimates for power consumption are pretty...

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Cerebras Announces Pay-As-You-Go AI Training On Cirrascale Cloud

by Karl Freund | December 13, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company claims it can train AI 8X faster than AWS at half the cost for large models.Cerebras is not your typical AI chip company. And thats a good thing. We already have a lot of knock-offs taking on NVIDIA, and they all seem to do a good job of knocking only...

Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...

What Is Physical AI, And Why It Could Change The World

by Karl Freund | August 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes Physical AI will be the next big thing. Emerging robots will take many forms, all powered by AI. Recently Nvidia has been extolling a future where robots will be everywhere. Intelligence machines will be in the kitchen, the factory,...

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...

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...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

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

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

by Karl Freund | October 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

IBM Invests In AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | April 10, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

While the IBM hardware business today is limited to POWER and Mainframe chips and systems, the technology giant is quietly building its expertise and capabilities in AI hardware. Where this could end up is anybody’s guess, but here are a few thoughts about what IBM is...

Story Correction: TechSpot Now Says AMD Believes That “AI Will Be Important To All Our Products Going Forward”

by Karl Freund | September 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Cerebras AI Lands A Whale As It Prepares To Go Public

by Karl Freund | January 15, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cerebras, famous for being the only AI company with a full wafer-scale chip, has landed OpenAI, its first major US-based hyperscaler. Prior to this deal, Cerebras has been successful securing investments and system commitments from a relatively small number of...