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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...

Micron Looks To Be First To Market With HBM3 Update For Generative AI And HPC

by Karl Freund | Jul 26, 2023 | In the News

According to the company, the new Gen-2 of HBM increases memory capacity by 50%, with another bump in the works for 2024. As you may have heard, in addition to NVIDIA GPUs, generative AI eats memory for lunch. And dinner. In fact, running ChatGPT takes 8 or 16 GPUs...

Promising Returns For Synopsys.ai Suite Of AI Solutions

by Karl Freund | Jul 24, 2023 | In the News

Synopsys is seeing strong demand for its newer AI technologies in test, verification, manufacturing and analog migration, in addition to the ongoing need for design optimization (DSO.ai). Synopsys was the first Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company to provide AI...

Cerebras Lands Huge AI Deal: A 36 Exaflop Monster

by Karl Freund | Jul 20, 2023 | In the News

The Wafer-Scale Engine company has been working for 8 years to break into the top tier of AI computing. This deal might just assure its success. We have been watching Cerebras for a long time, from its launch of the first wafer-scale engine for AI to its recent...

Using A Digital Twin To Manage A Sustainable Flexible Data Center

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

Cadence’s acquisition of Future Facilities in 2022 opened the door to large data centers, and provides the company with the ability to manage power and cooling just when data centers need help the most as AI surges. Suppose you are running a data center, racks full of...

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Intel Creates $1B Innovation Fund To Grow RISC-V Market (And Attract New Foundry Customers)

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

This announcement will have a long-lasting impact on the entire semiconductor industry: Intel must fabricate chips for its competitors to grow its foundry business, and is investing in the emerging RISC-V market as the catalyst. Intel competitors Andes Technology,...

Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

by Karl Freund | October 27, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

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

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

by Karl Freund | January 7, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Its got to be tough being an Nvidia competitor. You think you are close to catching up, perhaps even taking the lead, and then, bang! Nvidia brings out yet another latest and greatest. This year brings perhaps the biggest generational change ever witnessed in Nvidia,...

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...

Cerebras And Mayo Clinic Announce Foundation Model For Healthcare

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

JP Morgan’s annual Healthcare Conference is almost becoming an AI event as doctors and AI scientists collaborate to turn petabytes of clinical data into generative AI models and actionable insights. The progress made since Chat GPT’s arrival demonstrates that we are...

NeMo Megatron Reinforces NVIDIA AI Leadership In Large Language Models

by Karl Freund | August 12, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

LLMs are changing AI, and NVIDIA is changing its platform to excel in this fast-growing field Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this story Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the AI landscape today. Since OpenAI established...

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

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

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

Qualcomm Becomes A Mobile AI Juggernaut.

by Karl Freund | March 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach Nvidia GTC, its worth noting that there is another player in town. Or south of town, in San Diego: Qualcomm. The company has been building AI expertise and technology for over a decade, and we believe its lead over mobile rivals in both AI hardware and...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

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

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...