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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...

NVIDIA Cranks Up The Volume On Arm CPU And Omniverse Software

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

Two industry events have provided the stage for NVIDIA to share their plans for a proprietary Arm CPU based product line that we believe will transform their own business and the AI/HPC industry landscape. NVIDIA used the annual Computex and International Super...

GrAI Matter Labs: Brain-Inspired AI For The Edge

by Karl Freund | Jun 1, 2022 | In the News

This article was written by Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, and Karl Freund, Cambrian-AI Founder.We recently tweeted about the startup GrAI Matter Labs (GML) and received a lot of questions about the company’s products and strategy. As one of the first startups...

Intel Habana Launches 2nd Gen AI Chips

by Karl Freund | May 16, 2022 | In the News

Habana launches new chips for training and inference, claiming 2X performance advantage over last generation NVIDIA A100 Habana launched their 1st chip at the inaugural Kisaco AI Hardware Summit in 2018 with excellent performance and efficiency. Unfortunately for...

RISC-V Startup Esperanto Technologies Samples First AI Silicon

by Karl Freund | Apr 25, 2022 | In the News

Select customers are now evaluating the chip; early results look promising across a broad range of AI workloads Esperanto has been talking about their edge AI chips for several years, and now the company can demonstrate working AI acceleration for image, language, and...

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NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

The NewReality: Fast Inference Processing For 90% Less?

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

Most of the investment buzz in AI hardware concentrates on the amazing accelerator chips that crunch the math required for neural networks, like Nvidia’s GPUs. But what about the rest of the story? CPUs and NICs that pre- and post-process the query add significant...

Why Nvidia Is Entering The $30B Market For Custom Chips

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

Nvidia’s largest customers (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI) are developing AI chips that compete with Nvidia, presenting a potential long-term threat to the AI leader. Jensen’s response? “We can help you do that.” Warning: this blog contains...

As we said, Google is the Exception to the Rule!

by Karl Freund | September 5, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The latest TPU and the upcoming Ironwood supercomputer were just the start Google is taking the next step in its quest to become a serious challenger to Nvidia GPUs. As I recently noted in my post on CSP silicon costs and failures, Google is the exception. Google...

Cadence Design Launches Two New Platforms For Massive Chip Designs

by Karl Freund | April 17, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cadence has updated its platforms that supports chip design teams, offering more than 2X more capacity and 1.5X faster performance than the previous generation and can support chips up to 48 billion gates. Designing and testing chips is constantly becoming more...

Hot Chips Concludes An Amazing Lineup of AI Chip Companies.

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

Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...

AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

by Karl Freund | August 20, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | June 20, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

by Karl Freund | December 10, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

by Karl Freund | March 30, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

A bunch of industry analyst got to spend 90 minutes with the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA today to discuss his GTC announcements, and the future of the computing landscape. This was not an unusual occurrence. Jensen always makes himself available, and no analyst...