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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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Synopsys Lays Out The Benefits Of AI

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...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

AI Chip Vendors: A Look At Who’s Who In The Zoo In 2024

2/15: Updated to include Tenstorrent While the Nvidia AI story has rightly captivated investor attention, competitors are readying alternatives. How might AMD, Intel, Cerebras, Tenstorrent, Groq, D-Matrix and all the Cloud Service Providers impact the market? As...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...

Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...

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...

Agentic AI Reshapes Nvidia Strategy Beyond GPUs At GTC

Donning his signature black leather jacket, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang once again wowed his fans, totaling over 30,000 in the San Jose’s SAP Arena, with dazzling technology and extreme claims, including the company’s first post-GPU product. Agentic AI took...

Are AI Venture Investors Crazy, Or Are Groq And Sambanova Worth It?

Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Demands More Hardware, Not Less

Discussions about Deep Seek’s impact on Nvidia is everywhere. Yesterday, I heard an investor on CNBC’s "Fast Money" program pontificate that Deep Seek and its disruptive technology mean that “Nobody needs an Nvidia H100 anymore,” much less a Blackwell. I struggle to...