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Beware The AI Benchmarks!

Common Pitfalls In AI Benchmark Claims Most AI hardware purchase decisions follow lengthy evaluations running models and data representative of the application under development. Thats how decisions are made, and should be made. However, in typical AI hardware...

Qualcomm Is Still The Most Efficient AI Accelerator For Image Processing

Company’s recent design wins will help Qualcomm turn MLPerf benchmarks into sales. AI energy efficiency matters! Ever since Qualcomm announced its first-generation cloud edge AI processor, the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100, the company has been at the top of the leader board...

Qualcomm Technologies AI Software: Broad And Deep AI.

Qualcomm software supports multiple hardware accelerators in both Snapdragon and Cloud implementations, while making it easy for developers. We have taken a deeper look into the software that makes Snapdragon the best AI for mobile devices and enables the Cloud AI100...

Micron Looks To Be First To Market With HBM3 Update For Generative AI And HPC

According to the company, the new Gen-2 of HBM increases memory capacity by 50%, with another bump in the works for 2024. As you may have heard, in addition to NVIDIA GPUs, generative AI eats memory for lunch. And dinner. In fact, running ChatGPT takes 8 or 16 GPUs...

Intel Launches Gaudi 3 With Impressive Gen-AI Performance

Intel established itself as a competitive alternative to the Nvidia H100, joining AMD in offering a platform that can run the generative AI models more cost-effectively. Intel took the covers off the new Gaudi-3 AI accelerator this week at the annual Intel Vision...

Synopsys, Cadence, Google And NVIDIA All Agree: Use AI To Help Design Chips

Synopsys created a buzz in 2020, and now Google, NVIDIA, and Cadence Design have joined the party. What lies ahead? Introduction Designing modern semiconductors can take years and scores of engineers armed with state-of-the-art EDA design tools. But the semiconductor...

NVIDIA Data Center Growth Returns

NVIDIA reported renewed growth overall last week. Its Data Center segment (where most of the AI hardware is reported) grew 43% to a record $968M in the last quarter, and gaming rose 56% to $1.49 billion. The stock market appreciated the news, sending NVIDIA up over...

Synopsys Opens The Next Chapter Of AI Tools For Chip Design And Manufacturing

The EDA leader has generated over $500M to date in AI tools and technologies. Now a new data analytics solution applies data management, curation, and analysis across the entire pipeline of chip creation. Synopsys was the first EDA company to apply AI to chip design,...

Q2 Competitive Update: The AI Cambrian Explosion Rolls On

A lot of new AI Silicon and Software has been announced since March and it can be tough to keep track of it all. To help users, vendors, and investors keep track, our June Competitive Landscape Report is now available, and for a limited time, the ~70-page report is...

A Closer Look At Graphcore ML Performance

Greater scalability and new software increases performance by 50-fold over the last twelve months. Graphcore, the UK-based AI Unicorn, submitted a raft of new benchmarks to MLCommons in December, which we covered here. Performance improved significantly with the...