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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...

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...

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Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

by Karl Freund | November 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

Don’t Trust AI? NVIDIA Guardrails May Lower Your Anxiety, And Save Your Job.

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

A new Nemo Open-Source toolkit allow engineers to easily build a front-end to any Large Language Model to control topic range, safety, and security. We’ve all read about or experienced the major issue of the day when it comes to large language models (LLMs). “My LLM...

MediaTek Aims To Become A Player In Huge Markets

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

MediaTek mobile phone SoCs have historically been considered a) Asian, and b) low end. Thats all about to change with their Dimensity 9300 chip, which also enables entry into markets like the IoT and automotive, where the company is partnering with Nvidia for Advanced...

My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

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

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

As Nvidia Approaches $1 Trillion, It Announces AI Tech To Surpass $2 Trillion

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

New tech shows the synergies that combining CPU, DPU and GPU can enable in AI. Especially in very large AI. After steering a 25% rise in Nvidia shares last week, CEO Jensen Huang flew to Computex in Taipei to announce a slew of new products demonstrating how his...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

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

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

by Karl Freund | February 26, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

Need A Chat-Bot For Your Business? Try NVIDIA NeMo.

by Karl Freund | March 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nemo can help organizations tailor AI Models to focus on a smaller domain; and perhaps avoid costly mistakes! Lesley Stahl: “Oh, my god. It's wrong!” The veteran reporter was aghast that Microsoft Bing could get something so easy so wrong. Ms. Stahl was interviewing...

Tenstorrent Shifts Leadership Roles

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

The Toronto-based startup is growing fast, swapping CEO and CTO roles, and laying out a compelling roadmap for AI and RISC-V. Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based startup who raised over $200M in venture funding at a $1B valuation in May, 2021, has now grown to over 280...