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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...

IBM Helps Clients Prepare For A Quantum-Safe World

by Karl Freund | May 10, 2023 | In the News

IBM unveils new software to help clients protect data that someday could become threatened by quantum code-breakers. Quantum computing has the potential to create immense business benefits, and the social implications of quantum technologies are likely to be...

Don’t Trust AI? NVIDIA Guardrails May Lower Your Anxiety, And Save Your Job.

by Karl Freund | Apr 25, 2023 | In the News

A new Nemo Open-Source toolkit allow engineers to easily build a front-end to any Large Language Model to control topic range, safety, and security. We’ve all read about or experienced the major issue of the day when it comes to large language models (LLMs). “My LLM...

Tenstorrent Could Reshape The AI And CPU Competitive Landscape

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

Now led by Jim Keller, the company has built a new leadership team and a new strategy. It has tremendous potential. Now it must execute. Introduction It is hard to believe the difference a year makes. In 2021, there were over 100 public and venture-backed startups...

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Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

by Karl Freund | December 15, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has a multi-prong AI strategy. The company announced the AI PC and Intel Xeon Gen5 with excellent AI performance and TCO. Intel announced new products for desktops and servers, and the focus for both was AI, where Intel has a commanding lead over the...

Skipping Nvidia Left Amazon, Apple And Tesla Behind In AI

by Karl Freund | August 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Everyone thinks they are a comic. And everyone in big cap high tech thinks they can design better and/or cheaper AI chip alternatives to the industry-leader, Nvidia. Turns out, it’s simply not that easy. Apple and AWS have recently run aground in AI growth, and Tesla...

How Enfabrica Is Reimagining, And Disrupting, The AI Data Center

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AIHW and Edge AI Summit had a treasure trove of insightful presentations from luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Lip-Bu Tan, Marc Tremblay, and many others. I hope to get around to writing about what I learned, but first, I want to share the innovations from a startup...

Graphcore Launches 3rd-Gen AI With Wafer-On-Wafer (WoW!) Technology

by Karl Freund | March 11, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Startup also teases $120M Brain-Scale AI “Good Computer” For 2024 Remember Intel’s old Tick-Tock processor roadmap? The company alternated between two approaches, bringing out a new generation featuring architectural enhancements, then subsequently shrinking that chip...

Xilinx Reveals More Versal Details

by Karl Freund | September 10, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Xilinx held an “Innovation Day” event this week to share more details about the technologies the company hopes will forge a larger footprint in the data center. After listening to eight presentations and having intriguing discussions with the company’s leading...

How To Run Large AI Models On An Edge Device

by Karl Freund | July 10, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

It can be done, but it requires the edge device vendor to work to optimize the model. A hybrid approach can also extend the applicability of LLMs by combining Cloud and Edge processing. When most people think of Artificial Intelligence (AI), they imagine a berserk...

Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

by Karl Freund | November 26, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

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...

Nvidia Announces Rubin CPX GPU To Speed Long-Context AI

by Karl Freund | September 9, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

In an industry-first, Nvidia has announced a new GPU, the Rubin CPX, to offload the compute-intensive “context processing” off another GPU. Yep, now, for some AI, you will need two GPUs to achieve maximize performance and profit. I would be surprised if the...

Qualcomm Researches AI Techniques That Could Enhance The Wireless Experience

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

AI Research at Qualcomm Technologies is advancing wireless communications and RF location sensing. Wireless communications and RF sensing technologies continue to advance with 5G rolling out now and 5G Advanced in the wings. In order to sustain a high...