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The Graphcore Data Center Architecture

by Karl Freund | Apr 7, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News

The Graphcore disaggregated accelerator could be a game changer. I have recently finished a research paper looking into the data center architecture for deploying the Graphcore IPU-Machine, which is a network-attached accelerator for highly-parallel workloads. Lets...

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.

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Synopsys Opens The Next Chapter Of AI Tools For Chip Design And Manufacturing

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

The EDA leader has generated over $500M to date in AI tools and technologies. Now a new data analytics solution applies data management, curation, and analysis across the entire pipeline of chip creation. Synopsys was the first EDA company to apply AI to chip design,...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

Speeding AI With Co-Processors

by Karl Freund | May 7, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Most chips today are built from a combination of customized logic blocks that deliver some special sauce, and off-the-shelf blocks for commonplace technologies such as I/O, memory controllers, etc. But there is one needed function that has been missing; an AI...

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

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

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

New Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Has A Real Shot At The Laptop x86 Market

by Karl Freund | October 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

And laptops are just the beginning of the road for the new Oryon CPU, which will become the primary Qualcomm Arm CPU for all devices, from phones to cars, boasting industry-leading performance and efficiency. “There is a new sheriff in town!” Cristiano Anon, CEO of...

Eliyan Technology May Rewrite How Chiplets Come Together

by Karl Freund | April 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s interconnect eliminates the need for expensive interposers, accelerating AI processing; could double the amount of memory for AI like ChatGTP, saving millions. Artificial Intelligence is finally having its iPhone moment. The launch of ChatGPT led to waves of...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | June 20, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Out of the tsunami of AI chip startups that hit the scene in the last few years, Israeli startup Habana Labs stands out from the crowd. The company surprised and impressed many with the announcement last fall of a chip designed to process a trained neural network (a...

IBM Research Says Analog AI Will Be 100X More Efficient. Yes, 100X.

by Karl Freund | September 23, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM AI Hardware Research Center has delivered significant digital AI logic, and now turns their attention to solving AI problems in an entirely new way. Gary Fritz, Cambrian-AI Research Analyst, contributed to this article. AI is showing up in nearly every aspect of...

Promising Returns For Synopsys.ai Suite Of AI Solutions

by Karl Freund | July 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys is seeing strong demand for its newer AI technologies in test, verification, manufacturing and analog migration, in addition to the ongoing need for design optimization (DSO.ai). Synopsys was the first Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company to provide AI...

Intel Innovation: AI Everywhere

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

That phrase has dual meanings: AI will run everywhere, and AI was everywhere at the event. Pat Gelsinger’s keynote made it clear where Intel plans to innovate: AI. No surprise to anyone with a pulse, to be sure, but his enthusiasm was infectious. Every Intel employee...