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Nvidia Leads The HPC Landscape At SuperComputing ’24

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

Nvidia has gone from a niche provider of HPC technology to becoming a dominant force in the industry. This year’s SC event reinforces that leadership. The annual SuperComputing event in North America is taking place this week in Atlanta, Georgia, and as usual the show...

Nvidia Sweeps Benchmarks. AMD Is MIA, Again

by Karl Freund | Nov 14, 2024 | In the News

It should not surprise anyone: Nvidia is still the fastest AI and HPC accelerator across all MLPerf benchmarks. And while Google submitted results, AMD was a no-show. This blog has been corrected on 11/14 with a fresh TPU Trillium vs. Blackwell comparison. Say what...

Who Has The Fastest AI Inference, And Why Does It Matter?

by Karl Freund | Nov 1, 2024 | In the News

A food fight erupted at the AI HW Summit earlier this year, where three companies all claimed to offer the fastest AI processing. All were faster than GPUs. Now Cerebras has claimed insanely fast AI performance with their latest software running on the company’s...

Qualcomm Doubles Down On Automotive With New Snapdragon Platforms

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

A car that thinks, plans ahead, entertains, saves time, and ensures a safe and comfortable ride depends on AI-enabled silicon. Can Qualcomm Snapdragon become the leader in this revolution? They already have. The annual Snapdragon Summit (as usual, located in beautiful...

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

by Karl Freund | Oct 21, 2024 | In the News

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...

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NVIDIA Earth-2: Leveraging The Omniverse To Help Understand Climate Change

by Karl Freund | April 9, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Cambrian-AI Analyst Alberto Romero contributed to this article. One of the greatest challenges humanity faces today is climate change. Although changes in climate occur naturally, during the last 200 years human activities have directly influenced the otherwise normal...

Will AMD’s MI300 Beat NVIDIA In AI?

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

The upcoming MI300, which will ship Latter this year after NVIDIA’s Grace/Hopper Superchip, certainly has a shot at it. But there remain a lot of unknowns that will determine how well it performs for AI applications. And then there is Software. Yeah, Software. Lots of...

Synopsys.ai: New AI Solutions Across The Entire Chip Development Workflow

by Karl Freund | March 29, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

Synopsys has added AI-based Verification and Test to its already-successful Design solution, DSO.ai, with more to come. Three years ago, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solution provider Synopsys took the bold step to add reinforcement learning to its chip design...

Microsoft Beats Google To The Punch (Bowl), Adds ChatGPT To Bing

by Karl Freund | February 7, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

That wasn’t that hard, now, was it? The Bingmasters blended the prose results from ChatGPT with advertising revenue generating web urls. I’m switching to Bing! For the last 2 months, everyone (well, investors and the media) has been speculating how ChatGPT could...

Esperanto Joins The Rush To Generative AI With A New Appliance

by Karl Freund | September 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

The company is also working on its next generation chip which will add HPC features and higher performance with HBM instead of today’s DRAM memory. Esperanto, the company with a chip containing over 1000 cores of RISC-V, has previewed a new appliance for running...

Qualcomm Could Benefit Most From DeepSeek’s New, Smaller AI

by Karl Freund | February 14, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

While the Deep Seek Moment crashed most semiconductor stocks as investors feared lower demand for data center AI chips, these new, smaller AI models are just the ticket for on-device AI. “DeepSeek R1 and other similar models recently demonstrated that AI models are...

A Look At Graphcore’s AI Software

by Karl Freund | June 12, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Software for new processor designs is critical to enabling application deployment and optimizing performance. UK-based startup Graphcore, the unicorn provider of silicon for application acceleration, places significant emphasis on software, dedicating roughly half its...

Qualcomm Snapdragon Takes Aim At PC Rivals Intel, AMD And Apple

by Karl Freund | September 25, 2025 | In the News | 0 Comments

Snapdragon sponsored my trip to Maui to see the new hardware being announced at the annual Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm has rolled out new Snapdragon 8 for mobile and X2 Elite for Laptops that take on the competition with faster performance and lower power than...

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...

Esperanto Launches AI Accelerator With Over 1000 RISC-V Cores

by Karl Freund | August 24, 2021 | In the News | 0 Comments

After delays, the company now has working silicon back from TSMC, with high power efficiency for recommendation engines. Esperanto has announced more details at Hot Chips about its much-anticipated AI accelerator designed for power-efficient inference processing....