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The Cambrian AI Landscape: NVIDIA, The 800Lb Gorilla

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

NVIDIA is the 800 lb. gorilla in the AI hardware space. The company invests heavily in silicon, systems, and software to maintain that leadership position. This blog is an excerpt from the AI Competitive Landscape Report which is available to subscribers. Early...

Beware The AI Benchmarks!

by Karl Freund | Feb 19, 2021 | In the News

Common Pitfalls In AI Benchmark Claims Most AI hardware purchase decisions follow lengthy evaluations running models and data representative of the application under development. Thats how decisions are made, and should be made. However, in typical AI hardware...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Intel

by Karl Freund | Feb 18, 2021 | In the News

Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford University. Consequently, the company has at least one of everything: CPU, GPU, ASICs, and FPGAs. While this may appear to be a...

NVIDIA Outperforms Itself Once Again

by Karl Freund | Dec 3, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor

When the only company you can beat is yourself, what do you do? After all, you are the leader, right? And nobody else is even suited up and on the court. Some companies might rest on their laurels, saving money and slowing down R&D. NVIDIA is not one of those...

AMD Goes After NVIDIA With New GPU For The Datacenter

by Karl Freund | Dec 2, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, DataCenter AI, In the News, Semiconductor

Today AMD announced its first data center GPU to compete in high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Last year, the company announced that it would bifurcate its GPU technology into two architectures: CDNA for computation and RDNA for...

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AMD Launches MI325 AI Accelerator To Challenge Nvidia. Stock Fell 4.5%

by Karl Freund | October 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Chasing Nvidia is hard; Team Green simultaneously countered with new software that can triple AI performance. Consequently, AMD’s performance claims are already out of date. And AMD compared it against the older Hopper, not Blackwell which will ship long before the...

How Might OpenAI Outcomes Impact Nvidia, AMD, Intel And Microsoft?

by Karl Freund | November 20, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The story keeps changing, but one thing is for sure. There will be one more AI vendor who will need tens of thousands of new GPUs. As the Loony Tunes saga continues, thanks to the OpenAI board of directors (”Th.. Th.. Th.. That’s all, Folks!”), a ton of meetings in...

IBM Research Touts AI Supercomputer For Foundation AI

by Karl Freund | February 2, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM has built a supercomputer, named Vela, in the IBM Cloud to help its scientists create and optimize new AI models.AI needs a lot of horsepower. IBM AI Research, which has been investigating new digital and analog processor technologies to speed the calculations AI...

Synopsys Has Helped Over 100 Clients Use AI To Accelerate Chip Design

by Karl Freund | February 7, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s DSO.AI is helping chip designers run more experiments, make smaller chips, and speed performance. Three years ago, EDA vendor Synopsys started helping clients use reinforcement learning, an AI technique, to accelerate and improve physical chip layout...

Synopsys.ai: New AI Solutions Across The Entire Chip Development Workflow

by Karl Freund | March 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys has added AI-based Verification and Test to its already-successful Design solution, DSO.ai, with more to come. Three years ago, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution provider Synopsys took the bold step to add reinforcement learning to its chip design...

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...

New MLPerf Benchmarks Show Why NVIDIA Reworked Its Product Roadmap

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Every six months, NVIDIA, Intel and Google show how much their AI training hardware and software have improved while their competitors hide in the bushes. NVIDIA is starting to see some competitive threats but remains the leader, especially in the scale of its...

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’...

Yes, AMD Believes AI On The PC Is Important. And They Already Have It.

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

Recently, TechSpot erroneously reported otherwise, and I expressed my surprise and dismay here on Forbes. Now, lets set the record straight: AMD has been shipping the industry’s first AI-enabled x86 CPU chip for PCs since May. The company has been shipping a high-end...

Pearls Of Wisdom From Jensen Huang

by Karl Freund | March 30, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

A bunch of industry analyst got to spend 90 minutes with the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA today to discuss his GTC announcements, and the future of the computing landscape. This was not an unusual occurrence. Jensen always makes himself available, and no analyst...