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EDA Vendors Help Intel Get The USA Back Into Chip Manufacturing

by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News

The US Semiconductor industry desperately needs to rebuild the country’s ability to produce the advanced chips that are the cornerstone of AI and every electronic device you can imagine. Most of those chips are built today in Taiwan by TSMC. Merely the thought of any...

Meta Enters The Token Business, Powered By Nvidia, Cerebras And Groq

by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News

Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...

Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

by Karl Freund | Apr 3, 2025 | In the News

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

by Karl Freund | Apr 2, 2025 | In the News

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...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | Mar 21, 2025 | In the News

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...

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Eliminating Zombie Servers Could Save Billions

by Karl Freund | October 16, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

A Digital Twin of your Data Center can help identify and reduce wasted IT infrastructure, even before you build it. Nvidia uses one to plan and operate its AI supercomputers, as eliminating wasted IT has an enormous economic impact and improves reliability and...

Xilinx Readies Versal AI Edge For 2022 Availability

by Karl Freund | June 9, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Platform includes updated AI Engine with 4- and 8-bit integer math, along with new memory architecture. Xilinx has just launched the first edge model of the flexible Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) family, the third Versal to be announced in...

Ventana Micro Launches Server-Class RISC-V CPU, Challenging Arm

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company announces the industry’s highest performing RISC-V CPU for SOC designers building domain-specific chips. The semiconductor industry is on the verge of a major transition to chiplet-based designs and domain-specific solutions. And RISC-V, the open-source...

News Flash: NVIDIA Remains The Fastest Available AI Accelerator

by Karl Freund | July 5, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

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,...

IBM Nears Breakthrough In New Memory Class

by Karl Freund | March 10, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM Research has been working on new non-volatile magnetic memory for over two decades. Non-volatile memory is wonderful for retaining data without power, but it is extremely slow, and does not last forever. Primary computer memory (Dynamic Random Access Memory, or...

IBM Adds AI Accelerator On Next Generation Z CPU

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

Transaction processing is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. And with the next generation IBM Z processor, these applications will be able to run accelerated Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing directly on the platform, providing real-time analytic insights...

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...

Cerebras, Groq And SambaNova Line Up To Compete With Nvidia

by Karl Freund | October 21, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While Nvidia gets most of the press and market volume, there are three startups that have designed custom silicon and rack-scale infrastructure to compete with them head-on: Cerebras, Groq and Samba Nova. While Groq and Samba Nova seem to be getting some traction,...

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’...

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...