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NVIDIA Loses The AI Performance Crown, At Least For Now

by Karl Freund | Jul 7, 2022 | In the News

For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...

Qualcomm Launches Unified AI Stack For Cloud To Edge Intelligence

by Karl Freund | Jul 7, 2022 | In the News

The new Qualcomm AI Stack lays the foundation for domain-specific SDK’s While advances in AI accelerators have improved silicon performance by over a thousand-fold, it’s software that turns bits of silicon into useful capabilities for consumers and businesses. After...

D-Matrix AI Chip Promises Efficient Transformer Processing

by Karl Freund | Jul 7, 2022 | In the News

Startup combines Digital In-Memory Compute and chiplet implementations for data-center-grade inferencing. This article was written by Cambrian-AI Analysts Alberto Romero and Karl FreundD-Matrix was founded in 2019 by two veterans in the field of AI hardware, Sid Sheth...

Qualcomm Researches AI Techniques That Could Enhance The Wireless Experience

by Karl Freund | Jul 7, 2022 | In the News

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...

Synopsys Touts Smart “DesignDash” To Help Accelerate Chip Projects

by Karl Freund | Jun 10, 2022 | In the News

Many chip design teams use internally developed tools or a mix of vendor tools to manage the development workflow. Now Synopsys is applying ML and Big Data analytics to inform a comprehensive dashboard to improve productivity and the end-to-end design process. Every...

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If The Arm Deal Fails, NVIDIA Is Fine, But Arm May Struggle

by Karl Freund | September 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

European regulators are again expressing concerns about the impact on competition. But the alternatives for Arm could be worse. NVIDIA does not need to acquire Arm to keep growing like a weed. The acquisition would add to NVIDIA’s revenue and growth, to be sure, but...

IBM Teams With AMD For Cloud AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | November 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

This could be quite telling, as IBM had previously been using Nvidia for it’s internal cloud AI research. IBM has selected AMD to provide AI accelerators for the IBM Cloud. This is another milestone for AMD, which needs cloud adoption to achieve its goals. And IBM...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

by Karl Freund | April 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

by Karl Freund | August 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

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....

Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

by Karl Freund | May 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...

NVIDIA Omniverse: The Useful Metaverse

by Karl Freund | October 18, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

IBM Rolls Out New Power10 Servers And Flexible Consumption Models

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The high-end Power10 server launched last year has enjoyed “fantastic” demand, according to IBM. Let’s look into how IBM Power has maintained its unique place in the processor landscape. This article is a bit of a walk down memory lane for me, as I recall 4 years...

Could Graphcore’s Second Chip Challenge NVIDIA?

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Graphcore, a UK-based startup, launched its first Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI acceleration in 2018. Today it introduced its second-generation product for AI, a massively parallel chip with 59.4 billion transistors that delivers some 250 Trillion...

Qualcomm Research Examines On-Device AI Learning

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...