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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...

Synopsys Laps Competition With Second Generation AI

by Karl Freund | Aug 23, 2021 | In the News

EDA Leader Synopsys paints path to Software-Designed Si Last year, EDA leader Synopsys announced it had developed an AI chip design instrument called DSO.ai that could produce faster, lower cost, and more power-efficient chips by using an AI to figure out how to best...

IBM Adds AI Accelerator On Next Generation Z CPU

by Karl Freund | Aug 23, 2021 | In the News

Transaction processing is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. And with the next generation IBM Z processor, these applications will be able to run accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing directly on the platform, providing real-time analytic insights...

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...

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AMD Claims MI300X Is The World’s Fastest AI Hardware

by Karl Freund | December 6, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The hardware looks quite capable, but the software optimization story has a long way to go to get close to Nvidia. But given the current demand/supply imbalance, I suspect AMD can sell all they can make. AMD launched the MI300 in San Jose to an anxious audience of...

IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

by Karl Freund | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Graphcore And Spell Collaborate For End-To-End ML Operations

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

Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software. Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and...

Jack Dongarra Named 2021 ACM Turing Award Recipient

by Karl Freund | April 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

ACM honors the computer scientist, famous for the TOP500 Supercomputer program and HPC Software. Dongarra helped fuel the growth of High-Performance Computing across the globe. The ACM A.M. Turing award, named after the British scientist Alan M. Turing who articulated...

Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

by Karl Freund | October 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

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...

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...

Nvidia And Cadence Claim Breakthrough In AI-Powered Chip Design

by Karl Freund | June 1, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

AI silicon complexity is outpacing engineering scale—even at NVIDIA’s headcount. Autonomy is becoming existential, not a nice-to-have. And EDA vendors are rusing in to fill that need. In February, Cadence Design rocked the chip world by announcing they had developed...

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...

Big AI Inference Has Become A Big Deal And A Bigger Business

by Karl Freund | March 12, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Thanks to innovations like DeepSeek, training AI has become cheaper. However, inference is becoming more demanding as we ask AI to think harder before answering our questions. Nvidia, Groq, and Cerebras Systems (clients of Cambrian-AI Research) have all released...

The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

by Karl Freund | December 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The idea of chiplets is simple: develop the best semiconductors for the needed functions using the most proper manufacturing process. Then combine an assortment of chiplets on a multi-die package, and voila! A lower-cost approach to advanced semiconductors. The...