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New Fabrics Enable Efficient AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | Jul 11, 2025 | In the News

While GPU performance has been the focus in data centers over the last few years, the performance of fabrics has become a key enabler or bottleneck in achieving the throughput and latency required to create and deliver artificial intelligence at scale. Nvidia’s...

Who Needs Big AI Models? Amazon Web Services Using Cerebras Hardware

by Karl Freund | Jul 10, 2025 | In the News

The AI world continues to evolve rapidly, especially since the introduction of DeepSeek and its followers. Many have concluded that enterprises don't really need the large, expensive AI models touted by OpenAI, Meta, and Google, and are focusing instead on smaller...

Is Nvidia Competing With Its GPU Cloud Partners?

by Karl Freund | Jun 17, 2025 | In the News

Nvidia recently announced two new cloud initiatives. First, the company announced DGX Cloud Lepton, designed to connect artificial intelligence developers with Nvidia’s wide network of cloud providers. Second, Nvidia announced a new cloud service, the Industrial AI...

AMD Announces MI350 GPU And Future Roadmap Details

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2025 | In the News

AMD held their now-annual Advancing AI event today in Silicon Valley, with new GPUs, new networking, new software, and even a rack-scale architecture for 2026/27 to better compete with the Nvidia NVL72 that is taking the AI world by storm. Let’s dive in! Net-Net...

MLPerf Shows AMD Catching Up With Nvidia’s Older H200 GPU

by Karl Freund | Jun 4, 2025 | In the News

As you AI pros know, the 125-member MLCommons organization alternates training and inference benchmarks every three months. This time around, its all about training, which remains the largest AI hardware market, although not by much as inference drives more growth as...

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AMD Goes After NVIDIA With New GPU For The Datacenter

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, DataCenter AI, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

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...

Big AI Inference Has Become A Big Deal And A Bigger Business

by Karl Freund | March 12, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Thanks to innovations like DeepSeek, training AI has become cheaper. However, inference is becoming more demanding as we ask AI to think harder before answering our questions. Nvidia, Groq, and Cerebras Systems (clients of Cambrian-AI Research) have all released...

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...

How Enfabrica Is Reimagining, And Disrupting, The AI Data Center

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

The AIHW and Edge AI Summit had a treasure trove of insightful presentations from luminaries such as Andrew Ng, Lip-Bu Tan, Marc Tremblay, and many others. I hope to get around to writing about what I learned, but first, I want to share the innovations from a startup...

Blaize AI: Now In Production And Trials

by Karl Freund | August 31, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last November I covered Blaize and its silicon and software strategy, and noted that the company’s fairly large team has been focused on early customer engagements to gain insights and accelerate adoption. Now the company, backed by industrial heavyweights such as...

Cadence Creates “True Hybrid” Cloud For Designers

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

Instead of having to choose to run on-prem or in the cloud, with attendant upload times and costs, the new True Hybrid offering from Cadence creates a dynamic environment for chip and system design. When creating a new chip, design teams currently have to chose...

How AI Changes The Role Of Memory Companies And Their Value

by Karl Freund | October 14, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

As GPU’s become a bigger part of data center spend, the companies that provide the HBM memory needed to make them sing are benefitting tremendously. AI system performance is highly dependent on memory capacity, bandwidth and latency. Consequently, memory technology is...

NVIDIA GTC: “DPU” Smart NIC And More

by Karl Freund | October 22, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Why Nvidia Is Entering The $30B Market For Custom Chips

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

Nvidia’s largest customers (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI) are developing AI chips that compete with Nvidia, presenting a potential long-term threat to the AI leader. Jensen’s response? “We can help you do that.” Warning: this blog contains...

Two Can’t-Miss Events For AI Hardware

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

There are two conferences coming up that AI developers, executives, and investors should consider attending to get the latest from the industry’s leaders and challengers. I will attend both and I hope to see many of my readers there! Let’s take a closer look at what’s...