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It’s Moving Day!

Its Hard to Start Over. But It is Time… From Forbes to Substack. I’ve been publishing on Forbes for over a decade, focusing primarily on AI Hardware as an Industry Analyst. My company is Cambrian-AI Research, which I founded after leaving Moor Insights and Strategy in...

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Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

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 View From The AI HW Summit: What Was The Best AI HW In 2021?

The Summit is full of newsworthy announcements this week! I present a look back to help kick off the event... Today I present my annual AI industry overview at the AI Hardware Summit. This is the fourth annual event with nearly all the AI hardware vendors talking...

IBM Research Innovates “Serverless” Approach To Quantum

Quantum computing promises near-miraculous performance, but it comes with a lot of caveats. Most importantly, the problem being solved must be amenable to expression into the quantum “circuits” that can run on todays hardware. But what if only parts of the problem fit...

IBM Launches Quantum System Two And A Roadmap To Quantum Advantage

IBM announced its path to achieve over 100,000 qubits and over a billion circuit gates. When realized, IBM may create the world's first platform for universal computation in a quantum system. It sounds like Quantum Nirvana is finally in sight. Background Building a...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

AMD Launches 3rd Generation EPYC

AMD’s new EPYC server chip promises better performance than Intel.

Nvidia Announces Rubin CPX GPU To Speed Long-Context AI

In an industry-first, Nvidia has announced a new GPU, the Rubin CPX, to offload the compute-intensive “context processing” off another GPU. Yep, now, for some AI, you will need two GPUs to achieve maximize performance and profit. I would be surprised if the...

Blaize AI Emerges From Stealth

Throughout 2020, a wave of AI hardware startups will launch their companies and products. Cerebras started this wave with its wafer-scale engine last September. This week, Intel announced its AI chips from Nervana, Groq (founded by the inventors of Google TPU)...

Is NVIDIA Becoming A CPU Supplier, Competing With Intel And AMD?

NVIDIA Announces First Arm-Based Supercomputer Without GPUs The fact that NVIDIA is partnering with HPE to build a Grace-based Supercomputer should not surprise anyone. They had previously announced two; a monster machine called Alps at the Swiss National...