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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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ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

by Karl Freund | January 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...

Nvidia Takes Major Step To Leverage Its Rack-Scale Ecosystem

by Karl Freund | May 20, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While few dispute the incredible performance of Nvidia AI platforms, many complain that it is a closed system. You can’t replace the Arm CPUs with, say, a CPU from a RISC-V , or take advantage of a new AI ASIC like the Meta MTIA accelerator, without redesigning and...

Who Wins If The New Biden AI Export Rules Stand?

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

While Nvidia and the European Union have expressed their displeasure with the latest salvo of AI export restrictions from the Biden administration, a few companies and countries could actually benefit from them. But the industry as a whole will suffer, and so will...

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...

AI Has Eaten IBM Think

by Karl Freund | May 11, 2021 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

AI pervades every session at the annual IBM event. The virtual event of “All Things IBM” has become “All Things AI”, from chips to software, Watson to SAP, and companies including SalesForce, Siemens, Natwest, Dow and others. Honestly, if I could search the Think...

Who Has The Fastest AI Inference, And Why Does It Matter?

by Karl Freund | November 1, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A food fight erupted at the AI HW Summit earlier this year, where three companies all claimed to offer the fastest AI processing. All were faster than GPUs. Now Cerebras has claimed insanely fast AI performance with their latest software running on the company’s...

Cerebras Systems And G42 Build 2nd Phase Of Joint AI Supercomputer

by Karl Freund | November 13, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The only AI Hardware startup to realize revenue exceeding $100M has finished the first phase of Condor Galaxy 1 AI Supercomputer with partner G42 of the UAE. Other Cerebras customers are sharing their CS-2 results at Supercomputing ‘23, building momentum for the...

MLPerf Training 4.0: It’s All About Scale

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

While there isn’t a lot of new hardware (none!), Nvidia and Intel show off their muscles and ability to run new models at scale. Ok, here we go again. MLCommons has released new AI benchmarks, this time for training. And again. Nvidia runs all AI models better than...

New Fabrics Enable Efficient AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | July 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While GPU performance has been the focus in data centers over the last few years, the performance of fabrics has become a key enabler or bottleneck in achieving the throughput and latency required to create and deliver artificial intelligence at scale. Nvidia’s...

NVIDIA Performance Trounces All Competitors Who Have The Guts To Submit To MLPerf Inference 3.0

by Karl Freund | April 5, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

But power matters, too. Qualcomm and SiMa.ai win in Edge Data Center and Embedded Edge respectively, while Neuchips wins in data center recommendations for power. Big News! There is a potential solution on the horizon to vastly broaden the field of benchmark...