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AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

Intel Habana Launches 2nd Gen AI Chips

Habana launches new chips for training and inference, claiming 2X performance advantage over last generation NVIDIA A100 Habana launched their 1st chip at the inaugural Kisaco AI Hardware Summit in 2018 with excellent performance and efficiency. Unfortunately for...

The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

Pat Gelsinger’s First Big Bet

New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...

NVIDIA Omniverse: The Useful Metaverse

Omniverse is not a toy; it enables digital twins of the real world as it exists, or as it will become. A few weeks ago I read an article on another media platform that asserted the need for the metaverse to embrace users beyond the creative teams of game developers...

What If IBM Z Could Help Stop Fraud?

Last year, IBM launched the z16 with an integrated AI accelerator on each CPU chip. Now, with the infusion of AI into IBM z/OS and a robust AI open-source toolkit, IBM Z customers can realize low-latency AI on a highly trustworthy and secure enterprise system: the...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

Cadence Design Is Working With Renesas To Build The World’s First LLM Tool For Up-Front Chip Design

The company sees this as an augmentation, not a replacement, for its portfolio of reinforcement learning AI tools that improve the productivity of chip design teams, addressing the most challenging part of chip design. Cadence has been aggressively rolling out...

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

For the first time, IBM has used a quantum computer to solve a problem that that stumps the leading classical methods. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone in the path towards useful quantum computing systems and software. IBM has published a paper in...

Mythic Launches Industry First Analog AI Chip

Mythic claims 400 TOPS with 1.28B parameters on 16-chip PCIe Card Please welcome new Cambrian-AI Analyst Gary Fritz, who contributed to this article. Artificial Intelligence applications are starting to show up in everything from cell phones to supertankers. But at...