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With MLPerf, NVIDIA Wins, AGAIN!

by Karl Freund | Nov 20, 2022 | In the News

While the new H100 GPU shows off its Transformer Engine in MLPerf, Intel advances with Gaudi-2 accelerator, and MosaicML shows A100 results nearly as good as H100 with their software. Every six months, MLCommons orchestrates and publishes on mlcommons.org over one...

The US CHIPS Act Shines Spotlight On IBM Semiconductor Technology

by Karl Freund | Nov 20, 2022 | In the News

The recent legislation creates an opportunity for IBM to play a pivotal role in a resurgent US semi industry. One day, soon I hope, I hope to write a story about IBM hardware without first correcting the misconception that the IT company has exited the hardware...

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

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

Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...

The Snapdragon AI Journey

by Karl Freund | Oct 28, 2022 | In the News

Preparing for the next leap ahead. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) has been researching, developing, and shipping AI acceleration on their Snapdragon processors for the past decade. QTI’s state-of-the-art AI technology is born from smartphones. It leverages its...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

by Karl Freund | Oct 19, 2022 | In the News

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

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

by Karl Freund | February 10, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

by Karl Freund | September 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

Pat Gelsinger’s First Big Bet

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...

MLPerf Shows AMD Catching Up With Nvidia’s Older H200 GPU

by Karl Freund | June 4, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

As you AI pros know, the 125-member MLCommons organization alternates training and inference benchmarks every three months. This time around, its all about training, which remains the largest AI hardware market, although not by much as inference drives more growth as...

Yes, AMD Believes AI On The PC Is Important. And They Already Have It.

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

Recently, TechSpot erroneously reported otherwise, and I expressed my surprise and dismay here on Forbes. Now, lets set the record straight: AMD has been shipping the industry’s first AI-enabled x86 CPU chip for PCs since May. The company has been shipping a high-end...

Qualcomm Is Still The Most Efficient AI Accelerator For Image Processing

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

Company’s recent design wins will help Qualcomm turn MLPerf benchmarks into sales. AI energy efficiency matters! Ever since Qualcomm announced its first-generation cloud edge AI processor, the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100, the company has been at the top of the leader board...

Nvidia And d-Matrix Announce Collaboration Roadmap For Fast Inference

by Karl Freund | September 10, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia has done something unexpected: the AI leader is partnering with its (previous?) competitor d-Matrix to build an alternative disaggregated inference solution. Why not wait for the Groq LPU3, which essentially solves the same problem using fast SRAM for...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

Flex Sees Opportunities In The New AI Data Center

by Karl Freund | November 22, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Data center cooling is hot. At least it’s becoming a hot market, with industry projections likely to increase as the Nvidia Blackwell GPU push increases the percentage of silicon that requires liquid cooling. Goldman Sachs estimates the server cooling market is...