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Synopsys, Cadence, Google And NVIDIA All Agree: Use AI To Help Design Chips

by Karl Freund | Aug 14, 2021 | In the News

Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...

NVIDIA DPU & Intel IPU: Game Changers Or Just Smart NICs?

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

Intel has joined the fray to create a new category of Smart Network Interfaces, but with a different strategy than NVIDIA. Back in 2020, when we were all still afraid to leave our homes, NVIDIA launched what it said was a new kind of processor that combined the...

Qualcomm’s Vision: The Future Of … AI

by Karl Freund | Jul 19, 2021 | In the News

Mobile Chip Leader’s AI Starts In Mobile, And Grows To The Clouds Company acquires assets from Twenty Billion Neurons GmbH to bolster its AI Team. Qualcomm Technologies (QTI) is running a series of webinars titled “The Future of...”, and the most recent edition is on...

News Flash: NVIDIA Remains The Fastest Available AI Accelerator

by Karl Freund | Jul 5, 2021 | In the News

Ok, while that is hardly surprising news, given the comfortable lead NVIDIA enjoys, Google’s upcoming TPUv4 out-performed NVIDIA on three of eight benchmarks on a chip-to-chip basis, while Graphcore’s performance and price/performance is in the ball park. Meanwhile,...

Q2 Competitive Update: The AI Cambrian Explosion Rolls On

by Karl Freund | Jun 10, 2021 | In the News

A lot of new AI Silicon and Software has been announced since March and it can be tough to keep track of it all. To help users, vendors, and investors keep track, our June Competitive Landscape Report is now available, and for a limited time, the ~70-page report is...

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Cerebras, Groq And SambaNova Line Up To Compete With Nvidia

by Karl Freund | October 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...

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...

Cerebras Unveils AI Supercomputer-On-A-Chip

by Karl Freund | September 10, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today unicorn startup Cerebras disclosed a few details about the wafer-scale AI chip it has been keeping under wraps for some three years. While many unanswered questions remain, the new approach could mark a significant milestone in the semiconductor industry, where...

RISC-V Startup Esperanto Technologies Samples First AI Silicon

by Karl Freund | April 25, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Select customers are now evaluating the chip; early results look promising across a broad range of AI workloads Esperanto has been talking about their edge AI chips for several years, and now the company can demonstrate working AI acceleration for image, language, and...

INTEL Lays Down The Gauntlet For AMD And NVIDIA GPUs

by Karl Freund | September 15, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...

Who Has The Fastest AI Inference, And Why Does It Matter?

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

A food fight erupted at the AI HW Summit earlier this year, where three companies all claimed to offer the fastest AI processing. All were faster than GPUs. Now Cerebras has claimed insanely fast AI performance with their latest software running on the company’s...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

by Karl Freund | April 2, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Everyone is not just talking about AI inference processing; they are doing it. Analyst firm Gartner released a new report this week forecasting that global generative AI spending will hit $644 billion in 2025, growing 76.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, MarketsandMarkets...

SiMa.ai Sets A New Standard In Embedded Edge Power Efficiency

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

For power-constrained edge applications, SiMa tops the leader, NVIDIA Orin, according to the company’s recent MLPerf results and more. There’s big AI like ChatGPT, and then there is useful AI embedded at the edge. At in these environments, available power could be...

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...