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Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | Feb 24, 2026 | In the News

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | Feb 10, 2026 | In the News

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...

Cadence Is Leading The Audio Revolution With AI Technology

by Karl Freund | Jan 26, 2026 | In the News

Many analysts like to say that AI will become pervasive, applied to just about every aspect of computing to improve product quality, increase productivity, increase revenues, and lower costs. While investors remain alert for any signs that the bubble is about to...

Cerebras AI Lands A Whale As It Prepares To Go Public

by Karl Freund | Jan 15, 2026 | In the News

Cerebras, famous for being the only AI company with a full wafer-scale chip, has landed OpenAI, its first major US-based hyperscaler. Prior to this deal, Cerebras has been successful securing investments and system commitments from a relatively small number of...

Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

by Karl Freund | Jan 7, 2026 | In the News

Its got to be tough being an Nvidia competitor. You think you are close to catching up, perhaps even taking the lead, and then, bang! Nvidia brings out yet another latest and greatest. This year brings perhaps the biggest generational change ever witnessed in Nvidia,...

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Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

by Karl Freund | December 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

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...

NVIDIA Now Offers A Comprehensive Platform For Enterprise AI

by Karl Freund | August 24, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Enterprises have been slow to adopt AI in a big way. Recent forecasts predict that is about to change, and NVIDIA wants to reap the benefits. Enterprise IT organizations can easily be put off by the amount of new technology they will have to master in order to adopt...

IBM Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

Graphcore Launches 3rd-Gen AI With Wafer-On-Wafer (WoW!) Technology

by Karl Freund | March 11, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Startup also teases $120M Brain-Scale AI “Good Computer” For 2024 Remember Intel’s old Tick-Tock processor roadmap? The company alternated between two approaches, bringing out a new generation featuring architectural enhancements, then subsequently shrinking that chip...

NVIDIA Loses The AI Performance Crown, At Least For Now

by Karl Freund | July 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

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 Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....

IBM Achieves Breakthrough In Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | June 14, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Esperanto Sees A Bright Future For RISC-V In AI And HPC

by Karl Freund | May 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is shipping its first-gen chip globally, with over 1000 cores at only 25 watts of power. Can it break into Generative AI? Suddenly, AI has become the hottest investment and cocktail party topic de jour. But the estimates for power consumption are pretty...

Buckle Up! Here’s The Hot News From Nvidia GTC 2024

by Karl Freund | March 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

There is so much to share, so here is our take from Jensen’s Keynote address... After a five year Covid hiatus, Jensen Huang took the stage for an in-person Keynote at the SAP Arena to an adoring crowd of techies and investors. Like in the olden days, the man in the...