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Amid Takeover Rumors, Intel Launches Xeon 6P And Gaudi 3.

by Karl Freund | Sep 25, 2024 | In the News

While acquisition rumors swirled, Intel launched two products that are vital to the success of Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround strategy. But are they competitive? While the press is full of reports of Qualcomm's potential acquisition of Intel, which we doubt will occur,...

The 2024 AI HW Summit: Here’s What Caught My Attention

by Karl Freund | Sep 18, 2024 | In the News

The Summit drew over 1000 attendees this year, with scores of presentations and hundreds of AI leaders from large companies as well as many startups. Every September since 2019, the AI HW Summit in the Bay Area has been the focal point for new technologies around AI....

IBM Advances Quantum Dev With More Performance And Qiskit Functions

by Karl Freund | Sep 18, 2024 | In the News

IBM Qiskit, used to develop quantum circuits, is being augmented with a Quantum Function Catalog, is also being updated to deliver faster performance to speed application development. When Qiskit launched in 2017, the Quantum development tool helped learners and...

AMD Narrows The gap With Nvidia In New MLPerf Benchmarks

by Karl Freund | Aug 28, 2024 | In the News

New benchmark results from AMD, Untether AI, Google, Intel, and Nvidia demonstrate the converging AI silicon performance competition. However, system design, networking, and software make AI sing and dance. And that’s where Nvidia excels. Finally, I can stop whining...

Cerebras Gets Into The Inference Market With A Bang

by Karl Freund | Aug 27, 2024 | In the News

Cerebras’ Wafer-Scale Engine has only been used for AI training, but new software enables leadership inference processing performance and costs. Should Nvidia be afraid? As Cerebras prepares to go public, it has expanded its target markets and competitive stance by...

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NVIDIA GTC: “DPU” Smart NIC And More

by Karl Freund | October 22, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA Co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rarely disappoints his audience nor his investors. This week he once again delivered the goods at the GPU Technology Conference. Announcing a broad range of hardware and software innovations, Jensen made it clear that he intends...

Blaize AI Emerges From Stealth

by Karl Freund | December 2, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Throughout 2020, a wave of AI hardware startups will launch their companies and products. Cerebras started this wave with its wafer-scale engine last September. This week, Intel announced its AI chips from Nervana, Groq (founded by the inventors of Google TPU)...

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...

IBM Launches Granite 3.0 AI Models; Smaller, Faster, And 97% Cheaper

by Karl Freund | October 21, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The newly optimized LLMs underpin AI transformation client engagements with IBM Consulting Advantage and Watsonx. The industry has been abuzz about the affordability of LLM-based generative AI. If we don’t improve the efficiency, users will struggle to achieve an...

Why Nvidia Is Entering The $30B Market For Custom Chips

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

Nvidia’s largest customers (e.g., Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI) are developing AI chips that compete with Nvidia, presenting a potential long-term threat to the AI leader. Jensen’s response? “We can help you do that.” Warning: this blog contains...

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

by Karl Freund | April 2, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

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...

Does NVIDIA Selene Form A Wider Moat Than CUDA?

by Karl Freund | July 6, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

The annual International Supercomputer Conference (ISC), held virtually this year, kicked off today. Not surprisingly, NVIDIA has already made a few announcements of note. Especially of interest to me was the announcement of Selene, NVIDIA’s in-house 1+ Exaflop AI...

NVIDIA Keeps The Performance Crown For AI Inference For The 6th Time In A Row

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

In The Data Center And On The Edge, the bottom line is that the H100 (Hopper-based) GPU is up to four times faster than the NVIDIA A100 on the newly released MLPerf V2.1 benchmark suite. The A100 retains leadership in many benchmarks versus other available products...

NVIDIA Needed A CPU, But Did It Need To Buy Arm To Get One?

by Karl Freund | September 28, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

I often opine that NVIDIA needs a data center-class CPU to compete with Intel and AMD, both of whom have used tightly-coupled CPU/GPU technology to win the first three U.S. exascale supercomputer deals. Connecting massive GPUs to fast CPUs over a painfully slow PCIe...

IBM And Rapidus Will Collaborate To Build 2nm Chips In Japan.

by Karl Freund | January 23, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

IBM, who invented the tech everyone will use to create 2nm silicon, is partnering with Rapidus to bring it to market The world now realizes that major economies need to have reliable and secure access to semiconductors, the heart of the digital economy, not to mention...