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NVIDIA Is Not A Chip Company. It’s A Platform Company.

by Karl Freund | Nov 9, 2021 | In the News

NVIDIA extends its lead in accelerated computing, announcing platforms for the metaverse, healthcare, enterprise AI, autonomous vehicles, and data center security at the GTC Conference. NVIDIA, probably on its way to becoming a trillion dollar company, has been...

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow

by Karl Freund | Nov 8, 2021 | In the News

The Instinct MI200 is nearly five times faster than the NVIDIA A100 for HPC, but is theoretically only 20% faster for AI. One year ago I complained that the newly announced AMD MI100 GPU was great for HPC, but inadequate for most AI workloads. Now AMD has announced...

IBM Research and NeuReality Announce Partnership For AI

by Karl Freund | Nov 2, 2021 | In the News

NeuReality is the first Licensee of IBM’s reduced-precision core for AI IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NeuReality, an Israeli AI systems and semiconductor company, have signed an agreement to develop the next generation of high-performance AI inference platforms. IBM and...

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

by Karl Freund | Nov 1, 2021 | In the News

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....

Intel Challenges AMD And NVIDIA With New AI Technologies Amid Renewed Developer Commitments

by Karl Freund | Oct 27, 2021 | In the News

Upcoming CPU and GPU technologies require increased support for the development community, including eleven new development partners and new tooling. Concurrently, and not coincidently, Amazon announces availability of Intel Habana Gaudi on AWS. In 1997, Pat...

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Tenstorrent Could Reshape The AI And CPU Competitive Landscape

by Karl Freund | April 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Now led by Jim Keller, the company has built a new leadership team and a new strategy. It has tremendous potential. Now it must execute. Introduction It is hard to believe the difference a year makes. In 2021, there were over 100 public and venture-backed startups...

Perceive AI Launches 2nd Edge AI Chip For Low Power Applications

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company claims Ergo2 is up to four times faster than Perceive’s first-generation Ergo chip, and can handle much larger models such as NLP. Edge AI is coming into its own, with a variety of chips being launched that offer low cost, low power, and high performance....

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

by Karl Freund | October 17, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

Intel Innovation: AI Everywhere

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

That phrase has dual meanings: AI will run everywhere, and AI was everywhere at the event. Pat Gelsinger’s keynote made it clear where Intel plans to innovate: AI. No surprise to anyone with a pulse, to be sure, but his enthusiasm was infectious. Every Intel employee...

AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | August 28, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: NVIDIA, The 800Lb Gorilla

by Karl Freund | February 23, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA is the 800 lb. gorilla in the AI hardware space. The company invests heavily in silicon, systems, and software to maintain that leadership position. This blog is an excerpt from the AI Competitive Landscape Report which is available to subscribers. Early...

Cerebras Announces Pay-As-You-Go AI Training On Cirrascale Cloud

by Karl Freund | December 13, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company claims it can train AI 8X faster than AWS at half the cost for large models.Cerebras is not your typical AI chip company. And thats a good thing. We already have a lot of knock-offs taking on NVIDIA, and they all seem to do a good job of knocking only...

NeMo Megatron Reinforces NVIDIA AI Leadership In Large Language Models

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

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...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

by Karl Freund | May 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

Mythic Launches Industry First Analog AI Chip

by Gary Fritz | June 7, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Mythic claims 400 TOPS with 1.28B parameters on 16-chip PCIe Card Please welcome new Cambrian-AI Analyst Gary Fritz, who contributed to this article. Artificial Intelligence applications are starting to show up in everything from cell phones to supertankers. But at...