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Does NVIDIA Selene Form A Wider Moat Than CUDA?

by Karl Freund | Jul 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

The annual International Supercomputer Conference (ISC), held virtually this year, kicked off today. Not surprisingly, NVIDIA has already made a few announcements of note. Especially of interest to me was the announcement of Selene, NVIDIA’s in-house 1+ Exaflop AI...

Intel’s New Chips Focus On AI

by Karl Freund | Jul 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

Today, Intel launched and disclosed new technologies across its portfolio of processors, with special emphasis on enhanced AI capabilities. Unlike its many competitors, who either produce a CPU, a GPU, an FPGA or an AI-specific accelerator, Intel’s strategy is “all of...

A Look At Graphcore’s AI Software

by Karl Freund | Jun 12, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

Software for new processor designs is critical to enabling application deployment and optimizing performance. UK-based startup Graphcore, the unicorn provider of silicon for application acceleration, places significant emphasis on software, dedicating roughly half its...

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

by Karl Freund | Jun 4, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

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...

Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances Now Support Amazon SageMaker

by Karl Freund | May 29, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

image: AWS Last year at AWS reInvent, out of the 100s of announcements, I chose the top 5 for overall, long-term impact. One of those was Amazon’s EC2 Inf1 Instances that used its new Inferentia machine learning inference chip. I chose Inf1 Instances as a top 5 for a...

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Qualcomm AI Research Innovates 3D Perception Techniques

by Karl Freund | August 31, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The trick of AI at the edge is reducing complexity while maintaining accuracy. And that takes a lot of primary research. When we explored the eight “AI Firsts” from Qualcomm AI Research earlier this year, it was clear to us the company’s full-stack approach to AI...

Will AMD’s MI300 Beat NVIDIA In AI?

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

The upcoming MI300, which will ship Latter this year after NVIDIA’s Grace/Hopper Superchip, certainly has a shot at it. But there remain a lot of unknowns that will determine how well it performs for AI applications. And then there is Software. Yeah, Software. Lots of...

AI Startup MosaicML Comes Out Of Stealth To Aid AI Developers

by Karl Freund | October 13, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Naveen Rao, ex-Nervana and Intel, leads the new company focused on improving the efficiency of AI Training Training a deep neural network takes a lot of computational horsepower. Billions of trillions of multiplications and additions calculate “weights” which are...

Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | February 29, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Normally, an AI Industry Analyst like myself would not take notice of a new version of Ethernet; its IP is fairly staid technology these days. But now the demands of high performance AI has changed the game, again. CPU, Accelerators, and Switch vendors depend on...

What If IBM Z Could Help Stop Fraud?

by Karl Freund | September 26, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Last year, IBM launched the z16 with an integrated AI accelerator on each CPU chip. Now, with the infusion of AI into IBM z/OS and a robust AI open-source toolkit, IBM Z customers can realize low-latency AI on a highly trustworthy and secure enterprise system: the...

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...

EDA Vendors Help Intel Get The USA Back Into Chip Manufacturing

by Karl Freund | April 29, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Intel, GraphCore And Groq: Let The AI Cambrian Explosion Begin

by Karl Freund | December 12, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As we approach the end of a year full of promises from AI startups, a few companies are meeting their promised 2019 launch dates. These include Intel, with its long-awaited Nervana platform, UK startup Graphcore and the stealthy Groq from Silicon Valley. Some of these...

NVIDIA Runs The Mlperf Table

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

When the mlperf (machine learning performance) organization released the first standardized AI training benchmarks, which NVIDIA dominated last December, we were somewhat disappointed that only a few companies, namely NVIDIA, Google and Intel, were able to muster the...

The View From The AI HW Summit: What Was The Best AI HW In 2021?

by Karl Freund | September 14, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Summit is full of newsworthy announcements this week! I present a look back to help kick off the event... Today I present my annual AI industry overview at the AI Hardware Summit. This is the fourth annual event with nearly all the AI hardware vendors talking...