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Cerebras Unveils AI Supercomputer-On-A-Chip

by Karl Freund | Sep 10, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

Today unicorn startup Cerebras disclosed a few details about the wafer-scale AI chip it has been keeping under wraps for some three years. While many unanswered questions remain, the new approach could mark a significant milestone in the semiconductor industry, where...

World-Record AI Chip Announced By Habana Labs

by Karl Freund | Jun 20, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

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...

NovuMind: An Early AI Chip Startup

by Karl Freund | Jun 3, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News

Last fall, a bit of nerdy controversy arose around AI chip startup NovuMind when the company announced its first low-power chip for processing neural networks. The company claimed that its patented design could natively process 3-D tensor data far more efficiently...

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NVIDIA Acquires Bright Computing For Cluster Management

by Karl Freund | January 24, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Privately-held Bright is a favorite of HPC users, and will reinforce NVIDIA’s strategy of providing full-stack solutions for Enterprise HPC and AI. Bright Computing has been around since 2009, providing large-scale cluster management for HPC installations. The...

NVIDIA AI Runs The Mlperf Table Again

by Karl Freund | August 17, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Today, the industry standard AI benchmarking group, mlperf, released its 3rd raft of submissions for training AI networks, and just like the first two releases, NVIDIA swept a sparse competitive field in the category of commercially available hardware and software....

Flex Announces Liquid-Cooled Rack And Power Solutions At OCP Event

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

Flex is expanding its role in the AI data center market with power, cooling and infrastructure solutions for the most demanding AI servers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the data center, creating opportunities to help manage the flow of power and cooling...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Intel

by Karl Freund | February 18, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford University. Consequently, the company has at least one of everything: CPU, GPU, ASICs, and FPGAs. While this may appear to be a...

Nvidia Leads The HPC Landscape At SuperComputing ’24

by Karl Freund | November 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Nvidia has gone from a niche provider of HPC technology to becoming a dominant force in the industry. This year’s SC event reinforces that leadership. The annual SuperComputing event in North America is taking place this week in Atlanta, Georgia, and as usual the show...

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...

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...

Eight Takeaways From NVIDIA GTC

by Karl Freund | March 29, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

New Hopper GPU, Grace Superchips, New OGX Server for Omniverse, Faster networking, New DGX Servers & Pods, Enterprise AI Software, 60 updated SDKs, Next-Gen Hyperion Drive, Omniverse Cloud, ... I could go on and on! But neither of us has the time, so... GTC always...

As Agentic AI Reshapes Computing, Could It Reshape Qualcomm?

by Karl Freund | June 17, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Many have heard a lot about Agentic AI, and how it will impact our lives, our businesses, and even our relationships with computing devices. This article lays out the basic landscape for agentic AI infrastructure, spanning personal devices, edge computing, and...

Competitive Landscape Excerpt: AMD

by Karl Freund | March 19, 2021 | DataCenter AI, In the News | 0 Comments

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...