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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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Arm Adds More AI Firepower

by Karl Freund | November 8, 2019 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

As I covered in a recent article on the status of startups building chips for AI, the AI accelerator market will become quite crowded over the next 12-18 months. Not to be outdone, Arm is now extending its neural network processor family, adding logic designs for...

Is Graphcore’s Ecosystem Reaching A Tipping Point?

by Karl Freund | February 8, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Company’s open-source software has matured significantly, and now the development community is taking over some of load. Graphcore has made significant advancements since we published the original version of our research paper on the company’s software in May 2020. We...

Nvidia’s New HW Alleviates Concerns For Blackwell Transition

by Karl Freund | November 18, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

I awoke Sunday morning to an article in The Information written to instigate fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst Nvidia investors and users. Don’t worry. Nvidia’s got this. The article circulating this weekend highlighted the thermal challenges some customers face...

NVIDIA DGX Cloud Gives CSPs And Their Customers Exactly What They Want: Fast AI, Fast

by Karl Freund | October 5, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

NVIDIA’s offering integrates the company’s best GPU hardware and software into AI Supercomputers of virtually any size in the cloud, enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI without infrastructure hassles. While some may confuse this as NVIDIA competing with cloud...

Microsoft Announces Maia AI, Arm CPU, AMD MI300, & New Nvidia for Azure

by Karl Freund | November 16, 2023 | In the News | 0 Comments

In case you missed Satya Nadella’s keynote, here is a summary of vast array of news and my perspectives. Big impact on MSFT, AMD, AWS, and NVDA. CEO Satya Nadella presented a keynote packed with new product announcements. In case you didn’t watch it, here’s the news...

IBM Research Innovates “Serverless” Approach To Quantum

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

Quantum computing promises near-miraculous performance, but it comes with a lot of caveats. Most importantly, the problem being solved must be amenable to expression into the quantum “circuits” that can run on todays hardware. But what if only parts of the problem fit...

Intel Ice Lake Launch Reminds Us That CPUs Are Complex

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

And that CPU battles encompass far more than core count and SPEC benchmarks AMD’s EPYC 3 launch set the stage last month in its battle with Intel, claiming superior per-chip and per-core performance. Now, Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon CPU would need to put on one heck of a...

Intel Acquires Habana Labs For $2 Billion

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

The Habana Gaudi accelerator for training comes complete with an integrated fabric to scale out to hundreds or even thousands of nodes. image: HABANA LABS In a strategic move in its datacenter AI plans, Intel has announced that it will acquire Israeli chip startup...

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...

NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again

by Karl Freund | April 21, 2021 | In the News, Semiconductor | 0 Comments

The Qualcomm AI chip also looks pretty efficient, but where is everyone else? MLCommons, the not-for-profit organization that manages the AI benchmarks collectively known as MLPerf, has just released the V1.0 inference results. While NVIDIA once again dominated the...