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AI Has Eaten IBM Think

by Karl Freund | May 11, 2021 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

AI pervades every session at the annual IBM event. The virtual event of “All Things IBM” has become “All Things AI”, from chips to software, Watson to SAP, and companies including SalesForce, Siemens, Natwest, Dow and others. Honestly, if I could search the Think...

NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again

by Karl Freund | Apr 21, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor

The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...

Are AI Venture Investors Crazy, Or Are Groq And Sambanova Worth It?

by Karl Freund | Apr 14, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News

Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...

NVIDIA Completely Re-Imagines The Data Center For AI

by Karl Freund | Apr 12, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News

It is all about tighter integration with memory, CPUs, and accelerators for trillion-parameter AI models. For 12 years, NVIDIA has used its Spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) to amaze its customers and investors with new GPUs for graphics and application...

The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

by Karl Freund | Apr 7, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

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IBM Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

Cerebras Publishes 7 Trained Generative AI Models To Open Source

by Karl Freund | March 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI company is the first to use Non-GPU tech to train GPT-based Large Language Models and make available to the AI community. The early days of an open AI community, sharing work and building on each other’s success, is over. As there is now much more money at...

Cadence Design Is Working With Renesas To Build The World’s First LLM Tool For Up-Front Chip Design

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

The company sees this as an augmentation, not a replacement, for its portfolio of reinforcement learning AI tools that improve the productivity of chip design teams, addressing the most challenging part of chip design. Cadence has been aggressively rolling out...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

by Karl Freund | March 30, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

A bunch of industry analyst got to spend 90 minutes with the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA today to discuss his GTC announcements, and the future of the computing landscape. This was not an unusual occurrence. Jensen always makes himself available, and no analyst...

Following MSFT & GOOG Lead, AWS Embraces Nvidia And Upgrades Own Chips

by Karl Freund | November 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

As expected, Amazon AWS CEO Adam Selipsky announced updated AWS-engineered AI Training and Arm CPU chips to lower the cost of cloud services. But AWS has a problem: they have kept Nvidia at arm’s length to their detriment as Microsoft Azure increases market share. To...

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

by Karl Freund | February 7, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

IBM Adds AI Accelerator On Next Generation Z CPU

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

Transaction processing is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. And with the next generation IBM Z processor, these applications will be able to run accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing directly on the platform, providing real-time analytic insights...

IBM Shares AI Strategy And A Wealth Of Customer AI Results

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

Under CEO Arvind Krishna’s leadership and AI’s momentum, IBM has truly transformed its business, technology, and leadership. I should know; I worked there as an exec from 2000 to 2010. Now IBM is all about AI and Hybrid Cloud, with Quantum computing in sight. Lucky...

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...