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Intel To Separate Programmable Solutions Group (PSG); IPO Seen In Next 2-3 Years

Thanks to Microsoft’s appetite for FPGAs in the data center, the programmable hardware chips were a hot story in 2015. So, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7B. Then AMD acquired Altera’s biggest competitor, Xilinx, in 2022 for a whopping $50B. Now, unsurprisingly, Intel...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

Every six months, NVIDIA, Intel and Google show how much their AI training hardware and software have improved while their competitors hide in the bushes. NVIDIA is starting to see some competitive threats but remains the leader, especially in the scale of its...

The Snapdragon AI Journey

Preparing for the next leap ahead. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) has been researching, developing, and shipping AI acceleration on their Snapdragon processors for the past decade. QTI’s state-of-the-art AI technology is born from smartphones. It leverages its...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

SiFive Is Leading The Way For Innovation On RISC-V

The company appears well positioned to challenge CPU incumbents with high performance RISC-V CPUs and Vector Extensions to the open ISA architecture. The RISC-V CPU Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is emerging as a serious challenger to current CPUs based on...

Cerebras Builds Its Own AI Supercomputer, Andromeda

Company stood up an AI Exaflop system in just three days! At Supercomputing ‘22 in Dallas, Texas, startup Cerebras has announced the company has created its own supercomputer, much like NVIDIA has done with Selene. The system, called Andromeda, is composed of 16 CS-2...

Esperanto Sees A Bright Future For RISC-V In AI And HPC

The company is shipping its first-gen chip globally, with over 1000 cores at only 25 watts of power. Can it break into Generative AI? Suddenly, AI has become the hottest investment and cocktail party topic de jour. But the estimates for power consumption are pretty...

Untether AI Touts “At-Memory” Architecture, Promising Efficiency And Performance At The Edge

Every AI hardware startup begins at square one: design a novel architecture to accelerate deep neural network training and inference processing. Some focus on training, where performance is king, where even price is a secondary consideration in these early days of AI....

Cerebras Gets Into The Inference Market With A Bang

Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine has only been used for AI training, but new software enables leadership inference processing performance and costs. Should Nvidia be afraid? As Cerebras prepares to go public, it has expanded its target markets and competitive stance by...

Nvidia Leapfrogs Google And AMD With Vera Rubin

Its got to be tough being an Nvidia competitor. You think you are close to catching up, perhaps even taking the lead, and then, bang! Nvidia brings out yet another latest and greatest. This year brings perhaps the biggest generational change ever witnessed in Nvidia,...