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NeMo Megatron Reinforces NVIDIA AI Leadership In Large Language Models

by Karl Freund | Aug 12, 2022 | In the News

LLMs are changing AI, and NVIDIA is changing its platform to excel in this fast-growing field Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this story Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the AI landscape today. Since OpenAI established...

IBM Rolls Out New Power10 Servers And Flexible Consumption Models

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

The high-end Power10 server launched last year has enjoyed “fantastic” demand, according to IBM. Let’s look into how IBM Power has maintained its unique place in the processor landscape. This article is a bit of a walk down memory lane for me, as I recall 4 years...

Will NVIDIA Enter The Race For Quantum Computing?

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

Well, not directly. However, the company is making it easier to develop code for quantum machines using GPUs. Ok, let's face it. Programming quantum computers is hard. REALLY hard. While we do not expect NVIDIA to develop and market their own quantum system any time...

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...

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Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

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

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

New Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster Eliminates Months Of Painstaking Work To Build Massive Intelligence

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

The architecture eliminates the need to decompose large models for distributed computing to train: Push-button AI? The hottest trend in AI is the emergence of massive models such as Open AI’s GPT-3. These models are surprising even its developers with capabilities...

IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

by Karl Freund | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...

Our Year-End Newsletter

by Karl Freund | December 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

With the end of the year at hand, we first want to thank you for being a follower of Cambrian-AI Research, and share a few thoughts about the industry. Our community has grown tremendously thanks to you reading our many blogs on Forbes. EE Times, and on this...

Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again.

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia did not submit results for Blackwell either, as it wasn’t ready when results had to be submitted, but still won the race with the Hopper GPU by up to 4X. Too bad for AMD, as they probably have the most to gain by publishing results for the MI300, even if Hopper...

Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

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

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: GROQ

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...

Qualcomm Becomes A Mobile AI Juggernaut.

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

As we approach Nvidia GTC, its worth noting that there is another player in town. Or south of town, in San Diego: Qualcomm. The company has been building AI expertise and technology for over a decade, and we believe its lead over mobile rivals in both AI hardware and...

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...

HPE Adds Support For Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Inference Accelerator

by Karl Freund | August 12, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

HPE’s endorsement for the Qualcomm Technology Cloud AI 100 is a huge step for most efficient and high-performance AI inference engines in market today. When I was working at AMD to get the first generation EPYC server SoC added to HPE servers, I learned that the...