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Will NVIDIA Enter The Race For Quantum Computing?

by Karl Freund | Jul 29, 2022 | In the News

Well, not directly. However, the company is making it easier to develop code for quantum machines using GPUs. Ok, let's face it. Programming quantum computers is hard. REALLY hard. While we do not expect NVIDIA to develop and market their own quantum system any time...

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...

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NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

by Karl Freund | April 5, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...

Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

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

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based designs and domain-specific solutions. And RISC-V, the open-source...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

by Karl Freund | April 2, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Everyone is not just talking about AI inference processing; they are doing it. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report this week forecasting that global generative AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025, growing 76.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, MarketsandMarkets...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

by Karl Freund | October 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

HotChips Preview: Nvidia Scales AI Beyond The Data Center

by Karl Freund | August 22, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The annual HotChips conference starts this Sunday, Aug. 24, in San Francisco. Nvidia is scheduled to present six sessions covering topics of interest to AI data center users and operators and will make several key announcements I’ll cover in this article. (Like most...

Nvidia Improves Performance With 5x Faster AI. Yes, Software Matters.

by Karl Freund | December 5, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia’s pre-emptive strike may blunt AMD MI300 news, pointing to the company's key advantage in AI software. AMD will host a big announcement this week in San Jose, where the company will announce details about its new flagship GPU for generative AI, the MI300....

Qualcomm AI Research Innovates 3D Perception Techniques

by Karl Freund | August 31, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The trick of AI at the edge is reducing complexity while maintaining accuracy. And that takes a lot of primary research. When we explored the eight “AI Firsts” from Qualcomm AI Research earlier this year, it was clear to us the company’s full-stack approach to AI...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

by Karl Freund | January 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...

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...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...