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My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...

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AI Training: “I’m Not Dead Yet!”

With so much focus on inference processing, it is easy to overlook the AI training market, which continues to drive gigawatts of AI computing capacity. The latest benchmarks show that the training of AI models, an immense investment in power and compute, continues to...

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Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

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...

Intel Lays Out Strategy For AI: It’s Habana

Last month, Intel announced that it would acquire Israeli AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. At the time, I opined that this probably spelled the end for chips from the 2016 Nervana acquisition. Intel planned to bring out both the inference and the training versions...

NVIDIA Earth-2: Leveraging The Omniverse To Help Understand Climate Change

Cambrian-AI Analyst Alberto Romero contributed to this article. One of the greatest challenges humanity faces today is climate change. Although changes in climate occur naturally, during the last 200 years human activities have directly influenced the otherwise normal...

Cadence Automates PCB Design With AI Super Agents

Cadence has been rolling out new “Super Agents” at an impressive pace to provide chip design teams with agentic AI support across the chip design workflow. The latest iteration will cut the time needed to design the Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and advanced...

BrainChip Sees Gold In Sequential Data Analysis At The Edge

Unlike in image processing or large language models, few AI startups are focused on sequential data processing, which includes video processing and time-series analysis. BrainChip is just fine with that. With all the buzz around LLM generative AI, it is understandable...

Cerebras Systems Wins A Major New Client: The Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic has one of the world’s most extensive and valuable health data sets. AI can now transform that treasure trove into better health outcomes and scientific understanding, and Cerebras has been selected to help. As we noted last Fall, Cerebras is one of...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...

Taalas Launches Hardcore Chip With ‘Insane’ AI Inference Performance

The AI hardware market looks a lot different today than it did yesterday, thanks to the introduction of the Taalas Hardcore AI architecture. Founded two and a half years ago, Taalas has developed a platform for transforming any AI model into custom silicon, hardening...

NVIDIA Launches Ampere A100 GPU For Data Center Computing And AI

Figure 1: NVIDIA shared performance comparisons across a range of precisions. Note the huge performance increase for sparse matrix operations. Note the banks of 6 HBM chips. image:NVIDIA While many of us missed watching Jensen Huang on stage in his trademark leather...