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If The Arm Deal Fails, NVIDIA Is Fine, But Arm May Struggle

by Karl Freund | Sep 8, 2021 | In the News

European regulators are again expressing concerns about the impact on competition. But the alternatives for Arm could be worse. NVIDIA does not need to acquire Arm to keep growing like a weed. The acquisition would add to NVIDIA’s revenue and growth, to be sure, but...

Hot Chips Concludes An Amazing Lineup of AI Chip Companies.

by Karl Freund | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News

Every year, I promise not to attend this tech-heavy confab of fast chips. And every year, I break that promise. Just too much to ignore! I can deal with it: some technology is just beyond my pay grade. My masters in CS is decades old, and the deep technology...

Esperanto Launches AI Accelerator With Over 1000 RISC-V Cores

by Karl Freund | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News

After delays, the company now has working silicon back from TSMC, with high power efficiency for recommendation engines. Esperanto has announced more details at Hot Chips about its much-anticipated AI accelerator designed for power-efficient inference processing....

NVIDIA Now Offers A Comprehensive Platform For Enterprise AI

by Karl Freund | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News

Enterprises have been slow to adopt AI in a big way. Recent forecasts predict that is about to change, and NVIDIA wants to reap the benefits. Enterprise IT organizations can easily be put off by the amount of new technology they will have to master in order to adopt...

Cerebras Systems Lays The Foundation For Huge Artificial Intelligence

by Karl Freund | Aug 24, 2021 | In the News

Startup announces technology to enable a 120-trillion-parameter model on the way to brain-scale AI. OK, I thought I was done with preparing for HotChips, having prepared six blogs and three research papers. I was ready to take a few days off. Nonetheless, I decided to...

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The Cambrian AI Landscape: GROQ

by Karl Freund | February 25, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Ex-Google TPU engineers have been there and done that! Startup Groq is now sampling its AI platform to select customers and claims to have built the most efficient DNN processor in the industry. However, we need more transparency to substantiate this claim, in my...

NVIDIA Again Claims The Title For The Fastest AI; Competitors Disagree

by Karl Freund | December 1, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel Habana Labs and Graphcore add scale and software optimizations, while Google skips this round, choosing to put a stake in the ground for half-trillion parameter models. Every six months, the AI hardware community gathers virtually to strut their hardware stuff...

NVIDIA Omniverse: The Useful Metaverse

by Karl Freund | October 18, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Omniverse is not a toy; it enables digital twins of the real world as it exists, or as it will become. A few weeks ago I read an article on another media platform that asserted the need for the metaverse to embrace users beyond the creative teams of game developers...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | October 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The 3rd annual AI Hardware Summit concluded last week, after four days of mind-bending presentations, panels and discussions about the Cambrian Explosion in AI. For well over two years, many of us industry observers have waited for the players, big and small, to...

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...

How AI Changes The Role Of Memory Companies And Their Value

by Karl Freund | October 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

As GPU’s become a bigger part of data center spend, the companies that provide the HBM memory needed to make them sing are benefitting tremendously. AI system performance is highly dependent on memory capacity, bandwidth and latency. Consequently, memory technology is...

Who Is The Leader In AI Hardware?

by Karl Freund | November 5, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

A few months ago, I published a blog that highlighted Qualcomm’s plans to enter the data center market with the Cloud AI100 chip sometime next year. While preparing the blog, our founder and principal analyst, Patrick Moorhead, called to point out that Qualcomm ,...

Qualcomm And Google Team Up For RISC-V Based Wearables

by Karl Freund | October 17, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The two companies, both long-time partners of Arm, are extending their collaboration on wearables with a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform to power the next-generation Wear OS solutions. “What about Arm?” you ask... Qualcomm and Google have announced they are...

Xilinx Enters The SmartNIC Market

by Karl Freund | March 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The CPU in today’s data center is increasingly burdened by the need to process networking jobs. According to Xilinx’s VP Marketing for Data Center Products, Donna Yasay, networking stacks can tax CPUs up to 30%, robbing them of the cycles needed to run users’...