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Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

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The Sounds Of The AI Benchmark War: Crickets

NVIDIA once again dominated a near-empty field of AI competitors in MLPerf Inference V2.0. Let’s explore why other chip companies don’t want to play. Industry standard benchmarks have been an important feature of the IT landscape for decades, with SPEC, TPC, and other...

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Qualcomm Ups The Snapdragon AI Game

The leader in premium mobile SoCs has applied AI across the entire platform. At the annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm unveiled the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for premium mobile devices. As usual, it is a tour de force of features that make Qualcomm-powered...

IBM Research Touts AI Supercomputer For Foundation AI

IBM has built a supercomputer, named Vela, in the IBM Cloud to help its scientists create and optimize new AI models.AI needs a lot of horsepower. IBM AI Research, which has been investigating new digital and analog processor technologies to speed the calculations AI...

If You Love AI, Do Not Miss NVIDIA GTC This Year!

I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...

Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

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,...

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

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...

The AMD/OpenAI Partnership Will Fuel More Growth

AMD just won the biggest AI deal in the company’s history, with OpenAI entering a definitive agreement to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with the first gigawatt of capacity powered by AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs set to start in the second half of 2026. The...

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

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...

HotChips Preview: Nvidia Scales AI Beyond The Data Center

The annual HotChips conference starts this Sunday, Aug. 24, in San Francisco. Nvidia is scheduled to present six sessions covering topics of interest to AI data center users and operators and will make several key announcements I’ll cover in this article. (Like most...

Qualcomm Launches Unified AI Stack For Cloud To Edge Intelligence

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...

How To Run Large AI Models On An Edge Device

It can be done, but it requires the edge device vendor to work to optimize the model. A hybrid approach can also extend the applicability of LLMs by combining Cloud and Edge processing. When most people think of Artificial Intelligence (AI), they imagine a berserk...