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Has Google Turned A Corner In Quantum And AI Computing?

by Karl Freund | Dec 12, 2024 | In the News

Google recently announced three new hardware platforms, including quantum, AI and Arm. And these chips are indeed impressive. OK, I'll admit it. I underestimated Google's ability to drive meaningful innovations in the computing realm. Yes, the company showed great...

Will Open AI’s o1 Reasoning Model Really Change The World?

by Karl Freund | Dec 10, 2024 | In the News

OpenAI launched Strawberry — another name for its its 01 model — on Sept. 12, including the full function o1-preview and the more affordable o1-mini to demonstrate how AI can be greatly improved by breaking a query down into step-by-step reasoning. This...

The Age of Chiplets is Upon Us

by Karl Freund | Dec 9, 2024 | In the News

The idea of chiplets is simple: develop the best semiconductors for the needed functions using the most proper manufacturing process. Then combine an assortment of chiplets on a multi-die package, and voila! A lower-cost approach to advanced semiconductors. The...

Flex Sees Opportunities In The New AI Data Center

by Karl Freund | Nov 22, 2024 | In the News

Data center cooling is hot. At least it’s becoming a hot market, with industry projections likely to increase as the Nvidia Blackwell GPU push increases the percentage of silicon that requires liquid cooling. Goldman Sachs estimates the server cooling market is...

IBM Teams With AMD For Cloud AI Acceleration

by Karl Freund | Nov 19, 2024 | In the News

This could be quite telling, as IBM had previously been using Nvidia for it’s internal cloud AI research. IBM has selected AMD to provide AI accelerators for the IBM Cloud. This is another milestone for AMD, which needs cloud adoption to achieve its goals. And IBM...

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NVIDIA Adds New Software That Can Double H100 Inference Performance

by Karl Freund | September 8, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

TensorRT-LLM adds a slew of new performance-enhancing features to all NVIDIA GPUs. Just ahead of the next round of MLPerf benchmarks, NVIDIA has announced a new TensorRT software for Large Language Models (LLMs) that can dramatically improve performance and efficiency...

IBM Research And The Full Stack Approach To Innovation

by Karl Freund | October 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM’s vaunted research organization, one of the largest in the industry, thinks the path to innovation is to be taken as a team with clients and partners exploring the full stack needed to address a business challenge. We had a chance this week to hear how IBM...

SiMa.ai Hopes To Ignite The Edge ML Market With New Software-Driven “MLSoC”

by Karl Freund | September 7, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Alberto Romero, Cambrian-AI Analyst, contributed to this article SiMa.ai is a machine learning startup founded November 2018 with the mission to transform and ignite the embedded Machine Learning (ML) edge market by overcoming the deficiencies of current solutions....

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

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

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...

New Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster Eliminates Months Of Painstaking Work To Build Massive Intelligence

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

The architecture eliminates the need to decompose large models for distributed computing to train: Push-button AI? The hottest trend in AI is the emergence of massive models such as Open AI’s GPT-3. These models are surprising even its developers with capabilities...

IBM Helps Clients Prepare For A Quantum-Safe World

by Karl Freund | May 10, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM unveils new software to help clients protect data that someday could become threatened by quantum code-breakers. Quantum computing has the potential to create immense business benefits, and the social implications of quantum technologies are likely to be...

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...

Can Groq Really Take On Nvidia?

by Karl Freund | August 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Silicon Valley startup has just raised an astonishing $640M in additional funding, and is valued at $2.8B. Have they captured AI Lightning in a bottle? Groq has announced a $640M Series D round at a valuation of $2.8B, led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners....

Graphcore Launches 3rd-Gen AI With Wafer-On-Wafer (WoW!) Technology

by Karl Freund | March 11, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Startup also teases $120M Brain-Scale AI “Good Computer” For 2024 Remember Intel’s old Tick-Tock processor roadmap? The company alternated between two approaches, bringing out a new generation featuring architectural enhancements, then subsequently shrinking that chip...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Demands More Hardware, Not Less

by Karl Freund | March 4, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Discussions about Deep Seek’s impact on Nvidia is everywhere. Yesterday, I heard an investor on CNBC’s "Fast Money" program pontificate that Deep Seek and its disruptive technology mean that “Nobody needs an Nvidia H100 anymore,” much less a Blackwell. I struggle to...