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NVIDIA Continues To Evolve, From Chips To Software To AI Data Centers

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

Company’s Computex announcements also expand NVIDIA Certified program to DPU and Arm NVIDIA made several announcements this week in Taiwan, launching new software and services to help enterprises enter the age of AI. NVIDIA’s Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing,...

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Is 3X More Efficient. What’s Missing?

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor

New MLPerf benchmarks lay a solid foundation; now the company needs to finish the job. As the Cambrian Explosion reverberates across the landscape of AI chips, the benchmarking silence of many challengers stands in sharp contrast to their marketing hype. Most are...

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...

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New Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Has A Real Shot At The Laptop x86 Market

by Karl Freund | October 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

And laptops are just the beginning of the road for the new Oryon CPU, which will become the primary Qualcomm Arm CPU for all devices, from phones to cars, boasting industry-leading performance and efficiency. “There is a new sheriff in town!” Cristiano Anon, CEO of...

What’s Next For On-Device AI? Ask Qualcomm

by Karl Freund | July 1, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm held a one day analyst event in San Diego updating us all on their AI research. Pretty amazing stuff, but the big news is yet to come with a new Oryon-based Snapdragon expected this Fall, and perhaps a new Cloud AI 100 next year. Qualcomm was pretty confident...

Ventana Micro Brings RISC-V Into The Data Center

by Karl Freund | October 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company hopes to match or even exceed x86 and Arm performance for data center infrastructure and applications. The data center is becoming more heterogeneous in terms of customized processors, accelerating new workloads across the infrastructure to optimize data...

Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

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

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based designs and domain-specific solutions. And RISC-V, the open-source...

Intel Announces Neuromorphic Loihi 2 AI HW And Lava SW

by Karl Freund | September 30, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel Research believes that brain-like Neuromorphic computing could hold the key to AI efficiency and capabilities. Intel has announced the availability of the second generation “Loihi” chip to further research into neuromorphic computing techniques that more closely...

What Is Physical AI, And Why It Could Change The World

by Karl Freund | August 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes Physical AI will be the next big thing. Emerging robots will take many forms, all powered by AI. Recently Nvidia has been extolling a future where robots will be everywhere. Intelligence machines will be in the kitchen, the factory,...

Cambrian-AI 2022 Predictions: Expect More Than Just New Chips

by Karl Freund | February 8, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...

Using AI To Build Better Chips

by Karl Freund | May 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...

New Fabrics Enable Efficient AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | July 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While GPU performance has been the focus in data centers over the last few years, the performance of fabrics has become a key enabler or bottleneck in achieving the throughput and latency required to create and deliver artificial intelligence at scale. Nvidia’s...

Synopsys Moves To RISC-V To Help SoC Developers

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

When the number two provider of CPU designs jumps on the RISC-V train, it is a significant milestone. The open-source RISC-V design is on a roll, displacing Arm in many SoC development plans. ARC and Arm are both companies that design and license microprocessor (CPU)...