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Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

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...

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With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

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AMD Launches MI325 AI Accelerator To Challenge Nvidia. Stock Fell 4.5%

Chasing Nvidia is hard; Team Green simultaneously countered with new software that can triple AI performance. Consequently, AMD’s performance claims are already out of date. And AMD compared it against the older Hopper, not Blackwell which will ship long before the...

AI Is Reshaping Chip Design. But Where Will It End?

Using AI reduces design costs, improves yields and performance, and shortens time-to-market for better chips. Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and many hyperscal chip designers are now adopting generative AI capabilities to facilitate chip design. Think of this as...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

The Snapdragon AI Journey

Preparing for the next leap ahead. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) has been researching, developing, and shipping AI acceleration on their Snapdragon processors for the past decade. QTI’s state-of-the-art AI technology is born from smartphones. It leverages its...

As Nvidia Approaches $1 Trillion, It Announces AI Tech To Surpass $2 Trillion

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...

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

Qualcomm Research Examines On-Device AI Learning

On-device training capability would enhance the user experience while protecting privacy. We’ve all had those frustrating experiences with our mobile phones when the voice assistant seems to possess artificial stupidity instead of artificial intelligence. The real...

NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...