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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...

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...

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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...

Blaize AI Emerges From Stealth

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

Throughout 2020, a wave of AI hardware startups will launch their companies and products. Cerebras started this wave with its wafer-scale engine last September. This week, Intel announced its AI chips from Nervana, Groq (founded by the inventors of Google TPU)...

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...

The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | October 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...

AMD Launches MI325 AI Accelerator To Challenge Nvidia. Stock Fell 4.5%

by Karl Freund | October 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Chasing Nvidia is hard; Team Green simultaneously countered with new software that can triple AI performance. Consequently, AMD’s performance claims are already out of date. And AMD compared it against the older Hopper, not Blackwell which will ship long before the...

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,...

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

by Karl Freund | January 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

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

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

by Karl Freund | April 7, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

Cadence Is Leading The Audio Revolution With AI Technology

by Karl Freund | January 26, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...