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NVIDIA Earth-2: Leveraging The Omniverse To Help Understand Climate Change

by Karl Freund | Apr 9, 2022 | In the News

Cambrian-AI Analyst Alberto Romero contributed to this article. One of the greatest challenges humanity faces today is climate change. Although changes in climate occur naturally, during the last 200 years human activities have directly influenced the otherwise normal...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

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

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Chip Design Moves To The Cloud With Synopsys And Microsoft Azure

by Karl Freund | Apr 6, 2022 | In the News

CEO's Aart de Geus and Satya Nadella have teamed up to create the industry's first on-demand EDA Software as a Service offering on Microsoft Azure. SYNOPSYS AND MICROSOFT Synopsys and MicrosoftThe two companies have collaborated to enable engineers to design chips...

Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

by Karl Freund | Mar 30, 2022 | In the News

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...

Eight Takeaways From NVIDIA GTC

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

New Hopper GPU, Grace Superchips, New OGX Server for Omniverse, Faster networking, New DGX Servers & Pods, Enterprise AI Software, 60 updated SDKs, Next-Gen Hyperion Drive, Omniverse Cloud, ... I could go on and on! But neither of us has the time, so... GTC always...

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Hyundai And Samsung Lead $100M Investment Round In Tenstorrent

by Karl Freund | August 2, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Partners make great investors because their intent is to secure influence and gain access to advanced technology. Hyundai Motor Group and the Samsung Catalyst Fund have co-led a $100M investment in Tenstorrent, and both companies plan to use Tenstorrent’ tech. I love...

Nvidia Rocks CES With Grace-Blackwell AI PC Platform

by Karl Freund | January 6, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Among a slew of AI software announcements, Nvidia founder, CEO, and fashion icon Jensen Huang announced a new platform to power AI PCs for AI developers. Many analysts had long expected this move, as the Grace (Arm) CPU coupled with a Blackwell GPU on the same package...

A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

by Karl Freund | January 3, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...

NVIDIA Launches Lovelace GPU, Cloud Services, Ships H100 GPUs, New Drive Thor, And ….

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

It’s impossible to convey the excitement of an NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang keynote address at GTC, but here’s what caught my eye this week. NVIDIA made a slew of technology and customer announcements at the Fall GTC this year. Highlights included an H100 update, a new...

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...

INTEL Lays Down The Gauntlet For AMD And NVIDIA GPUs

by Karl Freund | September 15, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: An Update

by Karl Freund | June 2, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Celebrating its two-year anniversary, the Center announces innovative AI acceleration technologies along with nearly tripling its cadre of memberships. The IBM Research AI Hardware Center is the nexus of a group of academic and industry leaders contributing to the...

Synopsys, Cadence, Google And NVIDIA All Agree: Use AI To Help Design Chips

by Karl Freund | August 14, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...

What If IBM Z Could Help Stop Fraud?

by Karl Freund | September 26, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Last year, IBM launched the z16 with an integrated AI accelerator on each CPU chip. Now, with the infusion of AI into IBM z/OS and a robust AI open-source toolkit, IBM Z customers can realize low-latency AI on a highly trustworthy and secure enterprise system: the...

Synopsys Lays Out The Benefits Of AI

by Karl Freund | May 22, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

At the annual Synopsys User Group Meeting, CEO Aart de Geuss explains the industry dynamics in an engineering world transformed by AI. I won’t start this blog by talking about Chat GPT. You’re tired of hearing about it, right? But the same technology (reinforcement...