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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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Does NVIDIA Selene Form A Wider Moat Than CUDA?

The annual International Supercomputer Conference (ISC), held virtually this year, kicked off today. Not surprisingly, NVIDIA has already made a few announcements of note. Especially of interest to me was the announcement of Selene, NVIDIA’s in-house 1+ Exaflop AI...

IBM To Deploy Quantum System In The Basque Country Of Spain.

127-qubit Quantum System One to advance quantum science in Southern Europe IBM has announced that it has contracted with Fundación Ikerbasque to install and manage a new Quantum computer system, including Qiskit Runtime Services, in the Basque Country. The 127-qubit...

Qualcomm Makes Its Push For PC Relevance, Leading With AI

Qualcomm gave us an end-of-year update on the new Snapdragon X Elite, the company’s bold effort to create an Arm-based PC ecosystem. The future looks bright, especially if Qualcomm can incentivize ISVs to natively port to Arm. Last September, Qualcomm focused its...

Synopsys Has Helped Over 100 Clients Use AI To Accelerate Chip Design

The company’s DSO.AI is helping chip designers run more experiments, make smaller chips, and speed performance. Three years ago, EDA vendor Synopsys started helping clients use reinforcement learning, an AI technique, to accelerate and improve physical chip layout...

Breaking: AMD Is Not The Fastest GPU; Here’s The Real Data

At the MI300 launch, AMD claimed it had significantly better performance than Nvidia. While the AMD chip does look good, and will probably run most AI just fine out of the box, the company did not use the fastest Nvidia software. The difference is enormous. At a...

Eight Takeaways From NVIDIA GTC

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...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

Synopsys Touts Smart “DesignDash” To Help Accelerate Chip Projects

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...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

IBM Doubles Down On Its AI Cloud

IBM Research has doubled the capacity of its Vela AI Supercomputer, part of the IBM Cloud, to handle the strong growth in watsonx models and has aggressive plans to continue to expand and enhance AI inferencing with its own accelerator, the IBM AIU. A year ago, IBM...