Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
If the only thing you really know to date about machine learning chip startup, Groq, is that it is led by one of the creators of Google’s TPU and that will target inference, don’t worry, you didn’t miss anything. …
A Look Inside the Groq Approach to AI Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We talked recently about the addition of new layers of performance in the storage stack and how users and storage architects are trying to make most effective use of those. …
Rumors of Disk’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It used to be far easier to talk about storage performance, cost, and options. …
Keeping Pace with Rapid Storage Sophistication was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There has been a quiet revolution in storage happening and for once, it has not been led by the decades-old companies catering exclusively to on-prem deployments. …
When it Comes to File Services, the Cloud is Catching Up was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Carey Kloss has been intimately involved with the rise of AI hardware over the last several years, most notably with his work building the first Nervana compute engine, which Intel captured and is rolling into two separate products: one chip for training, another for inference. …
Intel Focuses on Scale Out AI Training With New Chip was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Without the right kind and the right amount of I/O between the components of a system, all of the impressive feeds and speeds of the individual components don’t amount to more than a pile of silicon and sheet metal. …
What is The Next I/O Platform? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If there is anything we are learning about the emerging chip ecosystem for AI inference, it is that it is vast, rapidly evolving, and incredibly diverse. …
Balanced AI Inference Chip Benchmarking Is Underway was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
Energy Giant Takes the AI Supercomputer Route was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. …
Will Analog AI Make Mythic a Unicorn? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Wave Computing was one of the earliest AI chip startups that held significant promise, particularly with its initial message of a single architecture to handle both training and inference. …
AI Chip Startup Makes Training to Edge Inference Transition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
At The Next AI Platform event in May, we brought together a few leading investors on the deep learning chip front to talk about how they consider architecture, software, competitiveness, and market potential from the various approaches for both training and inference. …
VCs Look Beyond Architecture for Next Chip Success Stories was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true from decades past (disk, bulky parallel file systems, etc.). …
Existing Storage Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Whether we want to term it HPC, AI, hyperscale, or something in between to apply to large-scale enterprise, there are fundamental changes afoot for big organizations with large clusters that are doing double (or quadruple) duty with production workloads and the new integration of machine learning. …
HPC or AI: Composability is Still King was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Earlier in May during The Next AI Platform event in San Jose, we conducted live, technical interviews with a broad range of experts in various areas of deep learning hardware. …
AI Chip Leads Debate Training, Inference Accelerator Trends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
At The Next AI Platform event on May 9 in San Jose, we brought together a wide range of people leading the charge throughout the AI infrastructure stack. …
I/O Bubbles to Top of AI Infrastructure Conversations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Storage is no longer an afterthought when it comes to systems of any reasonable scale. …
In the Age of AI, Storage is No Longer an Afterthought was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Earlier this week we focused on the entry of FPGA maker, Achronix, and their strategy to tackle the high end of this market with a datacenter-focused, 7nm device expected to emerge later this year. …
Rerouting the Conventional Datacenter FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When it comes to competition at the high end of the FPGA market, Xilinx and Altera (now part of Intel) are the two monolithic players, capturing the lions share of use cases. …
FPGA Upstart Takes Careful Aim at High-End Market was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. …
Why Single-Socket Servers Could Rule the Future was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Businesses and government agencies are deploying AI at breakneck speeds. But in the rush to stay ahead, or at least not fall too far behind, organizations are having to confront some hard truths. …
Why AI Adoption Leaves Customers Dazed and Confused was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .