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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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Perceive AI Launches 2nd Edge AI Chip For Low Power Applications

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

Company claims Ergo2 is up to four times faster than Perceive’s first-generation Ergo chip, and can handle much larger models such as NLP. Edge AI is coming into its own, with a variety of chips being launched that offer low cost, low power, and high performance....

Cerebras Partners With Qualcomm, Launches 3rd-Gen Wafer-Scale AI

by Karl Freund | March 13, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The newest system from Cerebras can handle multi-trillion parameter generative AI problems at twice the performance of its predecessor, while partnering with Qualcomm will help them cut inference processing costs by 10X. Cerebras Systems, the innovative startup who’s...

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...

AMD Acquires ZT, Addressing A Key Nvidia Advantage. Still, Two To Go

by Karl Freund | August 20, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

By acquiring ZT Systems, a favorite Hyperscale systems designer, AMD addresses a fundamental weakness it faces versus Nvidia: AI requires a complete system design, not just a fast chip. What else must it do to grab a 20% share? At a recent investment conference hosted...

Xilinx Reveals More Versal Details

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

Xilinx held an “Innovation Day” event this week to share more details about the technologies the company hopes will forge a larger footprint in the data center. After listening to eight presentations and having intriguing discussions with the company’s leading...

The Good, Bad, And Ugly From Supercomputing ‘23, Or Nearby

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

This year’s event was as much about AI as it was about HPC. The only booths not talking about AI were, well, nobody. Everyone was touting the miracles of AI, from CPUs to accelerators to system companies to networking vendors to storage to clouds to water cooling...

Qualcomm Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....

This Cadence AI Super Agent Is World’s First To Automate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | February 10, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...

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 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...