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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...

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The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...

The View From The AI HW Summit: What Was The Best AI HW In 2021?

The Summit is full of newsworthy announcements this week! I present a look back to help kick off the event... Today I present my annual AI industry overview at the AI Hardware Summit. This is the fourth annual event with nearly all the AI hardware vendors talking...

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

As expected, Amazon AWS CEO Adam Selipsky announced updated AWS-engineered AI Training and Arm CPU chips to lower the cost of cloud services. But AWS has a problem: they have kept Nvidia at arm’s length to their detriment as Microsoft Azure increases market share. To...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...

Neutral-Atom Quantum: What Is It, And Why Infleqtion Stands Out

Late last year, I wrote a Forbes piece about IBM, the leader in quantum computing using superconducting circuits, and promised an update on other modalities. This is the first follow-on piece and explores neutral-atom (NA) quantum, which operates at room temperature,...

Could AI Help Solve The Global Chip Shortage?

In part, yes. We could tap into unused manufacturing capacity using AI, and Synopsys believes it has the AI that could do it. Today’s chip shortage is holding back global economic growth, fueling inflation, and making life difficult for consumers and businesses alike....

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...

Nvidia GTC-DC Event Highlights AI, Quantum, And 6G Advances

Nvidia GTC has become not only a key event for AI but has also branched out to Asia, Europe, and Washington, DC to keep developers and buyers up to date on the latest advances in high-performance computing technology. This year's DC event, which kicked off with a...

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...

AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

The hardware looks quite capable, but the software optimization story has a long way to go to get close to Nvidia. But given the current demand/supply imbalance, I suspect AMD can sell all they can make. AMD launched the MI300 in San Jose to an anxious audience of...