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EDA Vendors Help Intel Get The USA Back Into Chip Manufacturing

by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News

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...

Meta Enters The Token Business, Powered By Nvidia, Cerebras And Groq

by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News

Meta held its first-ever event for AI developers, LlamaCon, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, where it announced that it was ready to compete with ChatGPT from OpenAI, as well as Google, AWS, and AI-as-a-service startups. This is really a big deal for Meta...

Can CEO Lip-Bu Tan Save Intel?

by Karl Freund | Apr 3, 2025 | In the News

After only 14 days on the job, Monday was showtime for Intel’s newest CEO, Lip-Bu Tan. During his keynote at the Intel Vision event in Las Vegas, Mr. Tan reiterated the messages communicated in his shareholder letter two weeks ago. He wants to focus Intel on...

AI Inference Is King; Do You Know Which Chip is Best?

by Karl Freund | Apr 2, 2025 | In the News

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...

Is Jensen Huang Nvidia’s Chief Revenue Destruction Officer?

by Karl Freund | Mar 21, 2025 | In the News

At this year's GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang held over 25,000 people in the palm of his hand, captivated by his vision of AI and how it could transform the world we live in. Some folks in the audience couldn't keep up and started fiddling with their...

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Qualcomm Launches Cloud AI Chip

by Karl Freund | October 1, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

Last year, Qualcomm teased its Cloud AI100, promising strong performance and power efficiency to enable Artificial Intelligence in cloud edge computing, autonomous vehicles and 5G infrastructure. Today, the company announced it is now sampling the platform, with...

Nvidia Contributes Blackwell And Ethernet Tech To Meta’s Open Compute

by Karl Freund | October 15, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Many think of Nvidia as a closed ecosystem. But as AI transitions from fast chips to address a full-system challenge, Nvidia is helping drive an open industry. Yes, CUDA is closed. Nvidia says it has to be closed in order to develolp an optimized software abstraction...

BrainChip Readies 2nd Gen Platform For Power-Efficient Edge AI

by Karl Freund | March 6, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company’s event-based digital Neuromorphic IP can add efficient AI processing to SoCs. Edge AI is becoming a thing. Instead of using just an embedded microprocessor in edge applications and sending the data to a cloud for AI processing, many edge companies are...

Synopsys Creates Cloud OpenLink For Cross-Vendor EDA Collaboration

by Karl Freund | October 31, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

When you put a chip project in the hands of a cloud service like Synopsys Cloud, how do you integrate the “other” vendor tools in your EDA workflow? That's the question Synopsys is trying to answer. Synopsys launched its Synopsys Cloud offering last year and is seeing...

Qualcomm Touts Eight AI “Firsts”

by Karl Freund | April 14, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

The AI research group at Qualcomm Technologies has pioneered innovations from on-device learning to wireless AI, and has ambitious plans for the next set of “firsts”. Whenever people take photos or speak to a digital assistant using a mobile phone, they often don’t...

Intel Focusses On AI At Big Event, And For Good Reasons

by Karl Freund | December 15, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Intel has a multi-prong AI strategy. The company announced the AI PC and Intel Xeon Gen5 with excellent AI performance and TCO. Intel announced new products for desktops and servers, and the focus for both was AI, where Intel has a commanding lead over the...

New Fabrics Enable Efficient AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | July 11, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Eliyan Technology May Rewrite How Chiplets Come Together

by Karl Freund | April 4, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s interconnect eliminates the need for expensive interposers, accelerating AI processing; could double the amount of memory for AI like ChatGTP, saving millions. Artificial Intelligence is finally having its iPhone moment. The launch of ChatGPT led to waves of...

Qualcomm Is Rightly Proud Of Its New AI Hub

by Karl Freund | March 27, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The mobile chip giant has released a new App Store for AI developers, with over 75 models in its “zoo” and support for every modern Snapdragon chip. Have you ever tried to stand up the infrastructure and software required for inference processing? It is complicated....

ChatGPT: Massive Disruption

by Karl Freund | January 30, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Our relationship with computers will never look the same. Here are the winners and losers. The web, the media, and my email are entirely full of ChatGPT missives and questions. I’ve spent hours with scores of investors, all wanting to understand the impact on...