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Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by Karl Freund | Apr 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

Pat Gelsinger’s First Big Bet

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

New Intel CEO pledges $20B in Fab investments. Is that enough? What’s next? Newly installed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger didn’t waste any time announcing that his top priority will be to “fix” the company’s manufacturing shortcomings which have delayed recent products by...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

by Karl Freund | Mar 19, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News

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...

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...

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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...

NovuMind: An Early AI Chip Startup

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

Last fall, a bit of nerdy controversy arose around AI chip startup NovuMind when the company announced its first low-power chip for processing neural networks. The company claimed that its patented design could natively process 3-D tensor data far more efficiently...

Intel Gaudi2 Looked To Be A Credible Alternative To Nvidia. Until…

by Karl Freund | September 11, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

In the latest inference processing MLPerf benchmark contest, Gaudi 2 came surprisingly close to Nvidia H100. But Nvidia promised faster software soon, which is a constantly changing picture. In the latest round of AI benchmarks, all eyes were on the new Large Language...

Using AI To Build Better Chips

by Karl Freund | May 8, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

With so many startups and large semiconductor firms racing to get new AI chips to market, electronic tool and design service firms like Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics are looking for new approaches to help designers speed their time to market. Ironically, one...

Will NVIDIA Enter The Race For Quantum Computing?

by Karl Freund | July 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Well, not directly. However, the company is making it easier to develop code for quantum machines using GPUs. Ok, let's face it. Programming quantum computers is hard. REALLY hard. While we do not expect NVIDIA to develop and market their own quantum system any time...

Nvidia Ups Its Robotics Game With Blackwell-Based Jetson Thor

by Karl Freund | August 25, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia focuses on maximum performance and efficiency. We’ve all heard the predictions: the Next Big Thing will be “Physical AI” (Nvidia) or “Embodied AI” (Qualcomm). Jensen Huang has predicted that in a decade, there will be more robots than humans on Earth. These...

MediaTek Reinvents The Smart Car, With Help From Partner Nvidia

by Karl Freund | March 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

MediaTek has announced four new SoCs for the next-gen automotive cockpit, the first to leverage Nvidia ADAS hardware and software. Last year, MediaTek announced it is collaborating with Nvidia to incorporate the AI leader’s technology into the next-gen automotive...

The Raging Debate: When Will Quantum Arrive?

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

There has been considerable discussion and stock price volatility of late surrounding the expected timing of useful applications and hardware for quantum computing. One month after Google created excitement around its Willow quantum chip, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and...

Microsoft Builds Massive Supercomputer For OpenAI, But Whose Chips Are Inside?

by Karl Freund | June 4, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Microsoft has announced that the company has built a top 5 AI supercomputer for OpenAI, hosted in the Azure cloud. Microsoft invested a billion dollars in the OpenAI industry research group in 2019. The massive system is comprised of some 10,000 GPUs and over 285,000...

My 2026 AI Predictions Have A Few Surprises

by Karl Freund | December 3, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

OK, I haven’t done this in a while; no excuse other than laziness. But here are ten concrete, defensible predictions for AI in 2026, with a bias toward things that materially matter for infra, enterprises, and policy. 1. Agentic AI moves from demos to staffed “digital...