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Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

by Karl Freund | Oct 27, 2025 | In the News

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

Cerebras, Groq And SambaNova Line Up To Compete With Nvidia

by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2025 | In the News

While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

by Karl Freund | Oct 6, 2025 | In the News

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2025 | In the News

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...

Cadence Design And Nvidia Team To Create AI Data Center Digital Twin

by Karl Freund | Sep 19, 2025 | In the News

The data center business is in a bit of a panic. Demand is skyrocketing. Rack power requirements have increased from ~12KW per rack to over 125 KW in just the last year. Now they are preparing for a Gigawatt rack in the next two to three years (Nvidia Rubin Ultra)....

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Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

AMD Goes After NVIDIA With New GPU For The Datacenter

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, DataCenter AI, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Today AMD announced its first data center GPU to compete in high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Last year, the company announced that it would bifurcate its GPU technology into two architectures: CDNA for computation and RDNA for...

Cerebras Now The Fastest LLM Inference Processor; Its Not Even Close

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

The company tackled inferencing the Llama-3.1 405B foundation model and just crushed it. And for the crowds at SC24 this week in Atlanta, the company also announced it is 700 times faster than Frontier, the worlds fastest supercomputer, on a molecular dynamics...

Synopsys.ai: New AI Solutions Across The Entire Chip Development Workflow

by Karl Freund | March 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys has added AI-based Verification and Test to its already-successful Design solution, DSO.ai, with more to come. Three years ago, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution provider Synopsys took the bold step to add reinforcement learning to its chip design...

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...

Cadence Design Announces Second-Generation IP For Edge AI

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

AI is penetrating nearly every market and every device, causing leading microprocessor developers to rethink their SoC to enable fast AI execution at low power. The global edge AI hardware market size was valued at $6.88 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach...

IBM And Rapidus Will Collaborate To Build 2nm Chips In Japan.

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

IBM, who invented the tech everyone will use to create 2nm silicon, is partnering with Rapidus to bring it to market The world now realizes that major economies need to have reliable and secure access to semiconductors, the heart of the digital economy, not to mention...

Intel Innovation: AI Everywhere

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

That phrase has dual meanings: AI will run everywhere, and AI was everywhere at the event. Pat Gelsinger’s keynote made it clear where Intel plans to innovate: AI. No surprise to anyone with a pulse, to be sure, but his enthusiasm was infectious. Every Intel employee...

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...

Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

by Karl Freund | April 3, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...