The European Union cannot practically declare its independence from Nvidia GPUs any more than any other nation can at this point. …
With Money And Rhea1 Tapeout, SiPearl Gets Real About HPC CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are definitely easier businesses to be in than operating a neocloud. …
Only The Biggest Neoclouds Will Survive was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco Live event last month in San Diego, the focus was on AI – and particularly agentic AI – and how the networking giant differentiates itself from other infrastructure vendors when it comes to the emerging technology. …
Silicon One: Many Cisco Chips With One Architecture Chasing Many AI Workloads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The biggest challenge to AI initiatives is the data they rely on. …
How Multi-Agent Systems Revolutionize Data Workflows was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has taken the better part of a year and a half and some wrangling with the US Department of Justice to get it done, but Hewlett Packard Enterprise has finally completed its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. …
How Will Juniper Change HPE’s Datacenter Networking Strategy? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we have said many times here at The Next Platform, the only way to predict the actual future is to live it. …
Even AI Can’t Predict How Much Accelerated Iron The World Will Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Micron Technology has not just filled in a capacity shortfall for more high bandwidth stacked DRAM to feed GPU and XPU accelerators for AI and HPC. …
Skyrocketing HBM Will Push Micron Through $45 Billion And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has kept a steady drumbeat for much of the year as it looks to position itself as the go-to IT hardware and software vendor for the rapidly expanding AI market, which has grown from chatbots to AI agents in under three years. …
HPE Throws Everything At AI – And AI At Everything was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Right or wrong, we still believe that we live in a world where traditional HPC simulation and modeling at high precision matters more than mashing up the sum total of human knowledge and mixing with the digital exhaust of our lives to create a globe-spanning automation that will leave us all with very little to do and a commensurate amount of wealth and power to show for it. …
Some Thoughts On The Future “Doudna” NERSC-10 Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is not one Ethernet business, but several, and now, with the evolution of Ethernet switches for back-end AI cluster networks, there is a new one that has the possibility to dominate revenues and profits. …
Nvidia Passes Cisco And Rivals Arista In Datacenter Ethernet Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are driving the chorus around an accelerated the timeframe the launch of a usable and reliable system. …
QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms To Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has been two and a half months since new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan gave the keynote at Intel’s Vision 2025 event, and the company has been relatively quiet by its own standards over the past several decades as Tan gets the lay of the land and tries to plot out the course of the company to rebuild its foundry business and reorient and focus its chip design and sales business. …
Intel Starts Re-Engineering Its Executive Ranks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Given two endpoints and a compound annual growth rate between those two points over a specific amount of time is not as useful as it seems. …
Picking Apart AMD’s AI Accelerator Forecasts For Fun And Budgets was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some heavy hitters like Intel, IBM, and Google along with a growing number of smaller startups for the past couple of decades have been pushing the development of neuromorphic computing, hardware that looks to mimic the structure and function of the human brain. …
Sandia Deploys SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic System was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
While the world continues to fixate on AI, there are still plenty of high performance computing workloads that need doing and a speedup to any one part can have a big impact, whether it be computational fluid dynamics, material analysis, or something else. …
Laser-Based Compute Promises To Light The Way To Faster Physics Sims was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
To a certain extent, Nvidia and AMD are not really selling GPU compute capacity as much as they are reselling just enough HBM memory capacity and bandwidth to barely balance out the HBM memory they can get their hands on, thereby justifying the ever-embiggening amount of compute their GPU complexes get overstuffed with. …
AMD Plots Interception Course With Nvidia GPU And System Roadmaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PCI-SIG, the organization that oversees the roadmap for the critical PCI-Express peripheral attachment specification, is continuing to keep to its three-year drumbeat for releasing the next iteration of the interconnect spec and already has its sights on the one after that, expected to be released in 2028 and appear in devices in 2030 or so. …
It’s Been Three Years, So It’s Time For Another PCI-Express Speed Bump was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Much of the business that Cisco Systems and others have been doing in the AI infrastructure field since OpenAI lit the generative AI fuse with ChatGPT in November 2022 has been deploying hardware and software with the hyperscalers, a lucrative business that led company executives to promise to sell as much as $1 billion in back-end network technology by the end of its fiscal year and then to blow past that a quarter early. …
Cisco’s Hyperscale And Cloud AI Push Will Give It Enterprise Clout was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. …
Peeling The Covers Off Germany’s Exascale “Jupiter” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40th anniversary. …
Top500 Supers: Even Accelerators Can’t Bend Performance Up To The Moore’s Law Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.