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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...

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...

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IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

by Karl Freund | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

by Karl Freund | December 10, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

Are AI Venture Investors Crazy, Or Are Groq And Sambanova Worth It?

by Karl Freund | April 14, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...

Qualcomm Doubles The Smart In Smartphones

by Karl Freund | December 27, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

For the last decade, a “smart phone” was defined by its ability to run applications locally on the device. These days, however, “smart” means features powered by AI, with intelligent applications such as enhanced computational photography, voice processing and gaming...

Enhanced Memory Grace Hopper Superchip Could Shift Demand To NVIDIA CPU And Away From X86

by Karl Freund | August 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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)...

AI Hardware: Harder Than It Looks

by Karl Freund | October 29, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The second AI HW Summit took place in the heart of Silicon Valley on September 17-18, with nearly fifty speakers presenting to over 500 attendees (almost twice the size of last year’s inaugural audience). While I cannot possibly cover all the interesting companies on...

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,...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Demands More Hardware, Not Less

by Karl Freund | March 4, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Discussions about Deep Seek’s impact on Nvidia is everywhere. Yesterday, I heard an investor on CNBC’s "Fast Money" program pontificate that Deep Seek and its disruptive technology mean that “Nobody needs an Nvidia H100 anymore,” much less a Blackwell. I struggle to...

IBM Shares AI Strategy And A Wealth Of Customer AI Results

by Karl Freund | November 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Under CEO Arvind Krishna’s leadership and AI’s momentum, IBM has truly transformed its business, technology, and leadership. I should know; I worked there as an exec from 2000 to 2010. Now IBM is all about AI and Hybrid Cloud, with Quantum computing in sight. Lucky...

MediaTek Aims To Become A Player In Huge Markets

by Karl Freund | May 10, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

MediaTek mobile phone SoCs have historically been considered a) Asian, and b) low end. Thats all about to change with their Dimensity 9300 chip, which also enables entry into markets like the IoT and automotive, where the company is partnering with Nvidia for Advanced...