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Our Year-End Newsletter

With the end of the year at hand, we first want to thank you for being a follower of Cambrian-AI Research, and share a few thoughts about the industry. Our community has grown tremendously thanks to you reading our many blogs on Forbes. EE Times, and on this...

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Tenstorrent Launches AI Chip With Conditional Execution

What the heck is that you ask?  So, did I; but it looks promising! I continue to be amazed at the innovations that are coming to market to accelerate deep learning workloads.  GraphCore, Habana Labs, Cerebras, Blaize, Groq, Perceive and others are now being joined by...

INTEL Lays Down The Gauntlet For AMD And NVIDIA GPUs

The company’s Xe GPU for HPC looks pretty good, but will it be good enough to catch up to AMD and NVIDIA? Intel has adopted a "Domain-Specific Architecture" strategy espoused by John L. Hennessy, Alphabet Chairman and former President of Stanford...

IBM Research Touts AI Supercomputer For Foundation AI

IBM has built a supercomputer, named Vela, in the IBM Cloud to help its scientists create and optimize new AI models.AI needs a lot of horsepower. IBM AI Research, which has been investigating new digital and analog processor technologies to speed the calculations AI...

NVIDIA And Intel Publish First GPT3 Benchmarks; AMD, AWS, And Google Are MIA

Let’s look into the results and explore why so many competitors chose not to play ball. Those who follow me know the drill: MLCommons publishes benchmarking results every 3 months, alternating between inferencing and training. Then I explain the results and whine...

Intel Challenges AMD And NVIDIA With New AI Technologies Amid Renewed Developer Commitments

Upcoming CPU and GPU technologies require increased support for the development community, including eleven new development partners and new tooling. Concurrently, and not coincidently, Amazon announces availability of Intel Habana Gaudi on AWS. In 1997, Pat...

What’s Next For On-Device AI? Ask Qualcomm

Qualcomm held a one day analyst event in San Diego updating us all on their AI research. Pretty amazing stuff, but the big news is yet to come with a new Oryon-based Snapdragon expected this Fall, and perhaps a new Cloud AI 100 next year. Qualcomm was pretty confident...

The Cambrian AI Landscape: Cerebras Systems

This startup stands alone with its innovative Wafer-Scale Engine for AI and HPC Let’s take an updated look at one of the most interesting AI startups: Cerebras, which came out of stealth in August 2019. The company has an unheard-of aggressive design, using an entire...

NVIDIA DGX Cloud Gives CSPs And Their Customers Exactly What They Want: Fast AI, Fast

NVIDIA’s offering integrates the company’s best GPU hardware and software into AI Supercomputers of virtually any size in the cloud, enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI without infrastructure hassles. While some may confuse this as NVIDIA competing with cloud...

Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...