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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...

The Case for Hardware-Assisted Verification in Complex SoCs

by Karl Freund | Mar 14, 2025 | In the News

This article was first published in EE Times. Synopsys recently launched two new hardware-assisted verification (HAV) systems, intended to address the need for specialized hardware to manage the complexity of modern chip design. In this article, we look at the...

Big AI Inference Has Become A Big Deal And A Bigger Business

by Karl Freund | Mar 12, 2025 | In the News

Thanks to innovations like DeepSeek, training AI has become cheaper. However, inference is becoming more demanding as we ask AI to think harder before answering our questions. Nvidia, Groq, and Cerebras Systems (clients of Cambrian-AI Research) have all released...

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NVIDIA Loses The AI Performance Crown, At Least For Now

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

For the first time, NVIDIA did not sweep the MLPerf table. While the era of its performance dominance may have come to an end, NVIDIA GPU’s flexibility and massive software ecosystem will continue to form a deep and wide moat. Meanwhile, Google, Intel, and Graphcore...

Cadence Is Leading The Audio Revolution With AI Technology

by Karl Freund | January 26, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

Many analysts like to say that AI will become pervasive, applied to just about every aspect of computing to improve product quality, increase productivity, increase revenues, and lower costs. While investors remain alert for any signs that the bubble is about to...

Cerebras Systems Wins A Major New Client: The Mayo Clinic

by Karl Freund | January 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

The Mayo Clinic has one of the world’s most extensive and valuable health data sets. AI can now transform that treasure trove into better health outcomes and scientific understanding, and Cerebras has been selected to help. As we noted last Fall, Cerebras is one of...

Synopsys Launches First 1.6T Ethernet To Accelerate AI Data Centers

by Karl Freund | February 29, 2024 | In the News | 0 Comments

Normally, an AI Industry Analyst like myself would not take notice of a new version of Ethernet; its IP is fairly staid technology these days. But now the demands of high performance AI has changed the game, again. CPU, Accelerators, and Switch vendors depend on...

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

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

AMD To Power ‘El Capitan’ Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

by Karl Freund | March 20, 2020 | AI and Machine Learning, In the News | 0 Comments

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National...

Did AMD Just Beat Nvidia In AI Performance?

by Karl Freund | April 6, 2026 | In the News | 0 Comments

AMD, Nvidia and Intel participated in the most recent round of MLPerf inference benchmarks. While I was surprised that Google didn’t participate with their new Ironwood TPU, there is still plenty to talk about. This particular round of MLPerf benchmarks makes it...

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....

SiFive Lands $175M Financing

by Karl Freund | March 23, 2022 | In the News | 0 Comments

Valued At Over $2.5B, SiFive Is Set To Challenge Arm, And x86 Vendors SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive...

Cambrian-AI 2022 Predictions: Expect More Than Just New Chips

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

The new year will see new chips, 2021 was another banner year for AI hardware platform innovations, as we predicted. Ok, not ALL of our prognostications came to pass, notably the stall (ok, death) of the NVIDIA/Arm deal. But others were pretty accurate. What does 2022...