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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...

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...

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Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

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

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

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

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...

Putting HPC To Work To Accelerate COVID-19 Research

by Karl Freund | April 23, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The US arsenal of supercomputers has officially been opened up for COVID-19 research. The White House recently announced the new COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which will allow researchers worldwide to access to the world’s most powerful HPC resources...

Qualcomm Readies Rack-Scale AI With New Chips And Roadmap

by Karl Freund | October 27, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Qualcomm announcement omits many details, but Humain will be a key customer. Qualcomm has quietly been in the AI data center since the company introduced the Qualcomm AI100 in 2019. Now, Qualcomm has taken a big step forward, launching a data center AI chip, PCIe...

NVIDIA Launches New GPUs And Services for Generative AI Inferencing

by Karl Freund | March 21, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

A new PCI-card with 12 times more inference throughput for large models like ChatGPT and NeMo services for Foundation Model customizations. Jensen Huang was thoroughly enjoying his virtual stage time at this year's GTC event. Why not? His company’s stock is up 80%...

Are AI Venture Investors Crazy, Or Are Groq And Sambanova Worth It?

by Karl Freund | April 14, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

Groq and Sambanova AI unicorns take in additional ~#1B in funding; customers must like what they see. UK AI leader Graphcore has raised some $700M to date. Intel purchased Habana Labs for $2B. Alibaba is spinning out their AI chip development business. Now two silicon...

Using A Digital Twin To Manage A Sustainable Flexible Data Center

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

Cadence’s acquisition of Future Facilities in 2022 opened the door to large data centers, and provides the company with the ability to manage power and cooling just when data centers need help the most as AI surges. Suppose you are running a data center, racks full of...

NVIDIA Loses The AI Performance Crown, At Least For Now

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

For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...

Qualcomm’s Vision: The Future Of … AI

by Karl Freund | July 19, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

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...