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Why Can’t NVIDIA Be Bested In MLPerf?

by Karl Freund | Nov 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

MLPerf, an industry consortium of over 70 companies and institutions, has released the second round of AI Inference processing results. These benchmarks now represent production applications from all major areas of AI deployment today. But only a few technologies...

The 2020 AI HW Summit: Beware The Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | Oct 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

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...

NVIDIA GTC: “DPU” Smart NIC And More

by Karl Freund | Oct 22, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rarely disappoints his audience nor his investors. This week he once again delivered the goods at the GPU Technology Conference. Announcing a broad range of hardware and software innovations, Jensen made it clear that he intends...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

by Karl Freund | Oct 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

NVIDIA Needed A CPU, But Did It Need To Buy Arm To Get One?

by Karl Freund | Sep 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

I often opine that NVIDIA needs a data center-class CPU to compete with Intel and AMD, both of whom have used tightly-coupled CPU/GPU technology to win the first three U.S. exascale supercomputer deals. Connecting massive GPUs to fast CPUs over a painfully slow PCIe...

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GrAI Matter Labs: Brain-Inspired AI For The Edge

by Karl Freund | June 1, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

This article was written by Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, and Karl Freund, Cambrian-AI Founder.We recently tweeted about the startup GrAI Matter Labs (GML) and received a lot of questions about the company’s products and strategy. As one of the first startups...

The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

by Karl Freund | April 7, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

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...

IBM And Rapidus Will Collaborate To Build 2nm Chips In Japan.

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

IBM, who invented the tech everyone will use to create 2nm silicon, is partnering with Rapidus to bring it to market The world now realizes that major economies need to have reliable and secure access to semiconductors, the heart of the digital economy, not to mention...

Cerebras Update: The Wafer Scale Engine 3 Is A Door Opener

by Karl Freund | March 25, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cerebras held an AI Day, and in spite of the concurrently running GTC, there wasn’t an empty seat in the house. As we have noted, Cerebras Systems is one of the very few startups that is actually getting some serious traction in training AI, at least from a handful of...

NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again

by Karl Freund | April 21, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

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...

IBM Announces Two Innovations To Advance Quantum Computing

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Error Mitigation and Dynamic Circuits will unlock new era of exploration on IBM Quantum computers for at least the next five years. In addition to the new Osprey chip, IBM has announced two innovations at the annual Quantum Summit, one around error mitigation, and one...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

by Karl Freund | March 19, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

As a bookend to AMD’s EPYC3 launch earlier this week, I thought I should share my thoughts on the company’s AI chip, the MI100, excerpted and updated from the Q1 Competitive Landscape Report. The company’s new GPU is a solid first effort for AMD’s revived data center...

Blaize AI: Now In Production And Trials

by Karl Freund | August 31, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last November I covered Blaize and its silicon and software strategy, and noted that the company’s fairly large team has been focused on early customer engagements to gain insights and accelerate adoption. Now the company, backed by industrial heavyweights such as...

Speeding AI With Co-Processors

by Karl Freund | May 7, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...