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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...

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...

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Cambrian-AI 2022 Predictions: Expect More Than Just New Chips

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

The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...

Eliyan Technology May Rewrite How Chiplets Come Together

by Karl Freund | April 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s interconnect eliminates the need for expensive interposers, accelerating AI processing; could double the amount of memory for AI like ChatGTP, saving millions. Artificial Intelligence is finally having its iPhone moment. The launch of ChatGPT led to waves of...

NVIDIA Loses The AI Performance Crown, At Least For Now

by Karl Freund | July 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

by Karl Freund | October 15, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

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

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...

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...

Blaize AI Emerges From Stealth

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Throughout 2020, a wave of AI hardware startups will launch their companies and products. Cerebras started this wave with its wafer-scale engine last September. This week, Intel announced its AI chips from Nervana, Groq (founded by the inventors of Google TPU)...

Esperanto Joins The Rush To Generative AI With A New Appliance

by Karl Freund | September 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is also working on its next generation chip which will add HPC features and higher performance with HBM instead of today’s DRAM memory. Esperanto, the company with a chip containing over 1000 cores of RISC-V, has previewed a new appliance for running...

Google AI Shot Heard Globally; Another Shoe Is About To Drop

by Karl Freund | November 25, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI sphere is abuzz lately with news and rumors that the latest Google TPU, Ironwood, is powering the Gemini3 model, outpacing OpenAI on many metrics including intelligence and performance. Now, The Information, echoed by Bloomberg and CNBC, is reporting that...