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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...

GrAI Matter Labs: Brain-Inspired AI For The Edge

by Karl Freund | Jun 1, 2022 | In the News

This article was written by Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, and Karl Freund, Cambrian-AI Founder.We recently tweeted about the startup GrAI Matter Labs (GML) and received a lot of questions about the company’s products and strategy. As one of the first startups...

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Qualcomm Research Examines On-Device AI Learning

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

On-device training capability would enhance the user experience while protecting privacy. We’ve all had those frustrating experiences with our mobile phones when the voice assistant seems to possess artificial stupidity instead of artificial intelligence. The real...

How Enfabrica Is Reimagining, And Disrupting, The AI Data Center

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

The AIHW and Edge AI Summit had a treasure trove of insightful presentations from luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Lip-Bu Tan, Marc Tremblay, and many others. I hope to get around to writing about what I learned, but first, I want to share the innovations from a startup...

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...

The IBM Research AI Hardware Center: Solid Progress, Aggressive Goals

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM AI acceleration technologies are becoming so good, most AI chip companies would be better off licensing core AI tech from IBM. Creating and using massive AI networks is quickly becoming unaffordable: Open.AI’s GPT-3 cost over $12M to train using thousands of GPU’s...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...

As we said, Google is the Exception to the Rule!

by Karl Freund | September 5, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The latest TPU and the upcoming Ironwood supercomputer were just the start Google is taking the next step in its quest to become a serious challenger to Nvidia GPUs. As I recently noted in my post on CSP silicon costs and failures, Google is the exception. Google...

NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

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

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

Cadence Automates PCB Design With AI Super Agents

by Karl Freund | July 15, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cadence has been rolling out new “Super Agents” at an impressive pace to provide chip design teams with agentic AI support across the chip design workflow. The latest iteration will cut the time needed to design the Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and advanced...

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...

Q2 Competitive Update: The AI Cambrian Explosion Rolls On

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

A lot of new AI Silicon and Software has been announced since March and it can be tough to keep track of it all. To help users, vendors, and investors keep track, our June Competitive Landscape Report is now available, and for a limited time, the ~70-page report is...