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AMD Launches 3rd Generation EPYC

by Karl Freund | Mar 15, 2021 | In the News

AMD’s new EPYC server chip promises better performance than Intel.

If You Love AI, Do Not Miss NVIDIA GTC This Year!

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

I just got an email from NVIDIA touting this year’s GTC event (April 12-16) and have to share this with you, in case you haven’t already heard. The virtual graphics, AI, and HPC event will headline AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Geoffrey Hinton...

IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

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

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Qualcomm

by Karl Freund | Mar 4, 2021 | In the News

Can the mobile chip giant finally break into the data center? Qualcomm began sampling the Cloud AI100 to select data center customers last quarter. The performance looks to be promising, based on the limited benchmarks we have seen, and the power efficiency for...

AI Cambrian Explosion: 2021 Predictions

by Karl Freund | Feb 26, 2021 | In the News

For the last two years, in January, I have published my predictions about the new AI silicon I expect in the coming year. Like the weatherman, I’ve gotten some details wrong but I’ve been reasonably accurate, at least directionally. So, here we go again with a look at...

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Untether AI Touts “At-Memory” Architecture, Promising Efficiency And Performance At The Edge

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

Every AI hardware startup begins at square one: design a novel architecture to accelerate deep neural network training and inference processing. Some focus on training, where performance is king, where even price is a secondary consideration in these early days of AI....

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

by Karl Freund | September 8, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Two Can’t-Miss Events For AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | October 3, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

There are two conferences coming up that AI developers, executives, and investors should consider attending to get the latest from the industry’s leaders and challengers. I will attend both and I hope to see many of my readers there! Let’s take a closer look at what’s...

Intel Innovation: AI Everywhere

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

That phrase has dual meanings: AI will run everywhere, and AI was everywhere at the event. Pat Gelsinger’s keynote made it clear where Intel plans to innovate: AI. No surprise to anyone with a pulse, to be sure, but his enthusiasm was infectious. Every Intel employee...

NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

by Karl Freund | June 27, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

IBM Shares AI Strategy And A Wealth Of Customer AI Results

by Karl Freund | November 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Under CEO Arvind Krishna’s leadership and AI’s momentum, IBM has truly transformed its business, technology, and leadership. I should know; I worked there as an exec from 2000 to 2010. Now IBM is all about AI and Hybrid Cloud, with Quantum computing in sight. Lucky...

Cerebras, 23’s Most Successful AI Startup, Sees A Bright Future

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

With revenue and customer commitments approaching $1B, Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine has likely generated more business than all other startup players combined. Needless to say, CEO Andrew Feldman is feeling pretty bullish about 2024. As previously discussed, Cerebras...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

by Karl Freund | October 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

Cerebras And Mayo Clinic Announce Foundation Model For Healthcare

by Karl Freund | January 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

JP Morgan’s annual Healthcare Conference is almost becoming an AI event as doctors and AI scientists collaborate to turn petabytes of clinical data into generative AI models and actionable insights. The progress made since Chat GPT’s arrival demonstrates that we are...

Who Needs Big AI Models? Amazon Web Services Using Cerebras Hardware

by Karl Freund | July 10, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI world continues to evolve rapidly, especially since the introduction of DeepSeek and its followers. Many have concluded that enterprises don't really need the large, expensive AI models touted by OpenAI, Meta, and Google, and are focusing instead on smaller...