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Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

Cerebras Systems And G42 Build 2nd Phase Of Joint AI Supercomputer

The only AI Hardware startup to realize revenue exceeding $100M has finished the first phase of Condor Galaxy 1 AI Supercomputer with partner G42 of the UAE. Other Cerebras customers are sharing their CS-2 results at Supercomputing ‘23, building momentum for the...

Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Intel

Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford University. Consequently, the company has at least one of everything: CPU, GPU, ASICs, and FPGAs. While this may appear to be a...

Cerebras AI Lands A Whale As It Prepares To Go Public

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...

NVIDIA Now Offers A Comprehensive Platform For Enterprise AI

Enterprises have been slow to adopt AI in a big way. Recent forecasts predict that is about to change, and NVIDIA wants to reap the benefits. Enterprise IT organizations can easily be put off by the amount of new technology they will have to master in order to adopt...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

How AI Changes The Role Of Memory Companies And Their Value

As GPU’s become a bigger part of data center spend, the companies that provide the HBM memory needed to make them sing are benefitting tremendously. AI system performance is highly dependent on memory capacity, bandwidth and latency. Consequently, memory technology is...

Blaize AI: Now In Production And Trials

Last November I covered Blaize and its silicon and software strategy, and noted that the company’s fairly large team has been focused on early customer engagements to gain insights and accelerate adoption. Now the company, backed by industrial heavyweights such as...