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AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching
SPONSORED POST: The rapid breakout of Artificial Intelligence is driving business opportunities across verticals – but there’s one sector for which AI presents some formidable challenges, and that’s the datacenter industry itself. …
AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Scaling The Datacenter: Five Best Practices For CSPs
In today’s dynamic technological environment, service providers such as cloud service providers (CSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, and enterprise private cloud operators face a myriad of challenges in the modern datacenter. …
Scaling The Datacenter: Five Best Practices For CSPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
TSMC Seeks To Make Itself More Indispensable Than It Already Is
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co already has a de facto monopoly – one that it has earned – when it comes to the manufacturing of datacenter compute engines. …
TSMC Seeks To Make Itself More Indispensable Than It Already Is was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD’s Long And Winding Road To The Hybrid CPU-GPU Instinct MI300A
Back in 2012, when AMD was in the process of backing out of the datacenter CPU business and did not really have its datacenter GPU act together at all, the US Department of Energy exhibited the enlightened self-interest that is a strong foundation of both economics and politics and took a chance and invested in AMD to do research in memory technologies and hybrid CPU-GPU computing at exascale. …
AMD’s Long And Winding Road To The Hybrid CPU-GPU Instinct MI300A was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale
Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …
Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ongoing Saga: How Much Money Will Be Spent On AI Chips?
Everybody knows that companies, particularly hyperscalers and cloud builders but now increasingly enterprises hoping to leverage generative AI, are spending giant round bales of money on AI accelerators and related chips to create AI training and inference clusters. …
Ongoing Saga: How Much Money Will Be Spent On AI Chips? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can SoftBank Be An AI Supercomputer Player? Will Arm Lend A Hand?
There have been rumors that either Arm Ltd or parent company and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would buy British AI chip and system upstart – it is no longer a startup if it is eight years old – Graphcore for quite some time. …
Can SoftBank Be An AI Supercomputer Player? Will Arm Lend A Hand? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AIST Taps HPE And Nvidia For Next-Gen AI Cloud Machine
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan is going to be installing the third generation of its AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer. …
AIST Taps HPE And Nvidia For Next-Gen AI Cloud Machine was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI For The Masses Is Already Here
Partner Content: AI used to feel like a far off possibility – a complex, expensive technology belonging to tech billionaires and giant corporations. …
AI For The Masses Is Already Here was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Builds Out Its AI Software And Services Stack With Silo AI Buy
You can build a software ecosystem if you have time. But sometimes, you want to speed things up, and then you have to pay to build that ecosystem out. …
AMD Builds Out Its AI Software And Services Stack With Silo AI Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Charges A Hefty Premium For Graviton 4 Instances
The decades of Moore’s Law improvements in server CPU performance and economics have trained us all to think that no matter what, we will always see a lower cost per unit of performance with each successive generation of processors. …
AWS Charges A Hefty Premium For Graviton 4 Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IDC Boosts Datacenter Compute And Storage Spending Forecast
When you have to compile the revenue streams of thousands of major IT hardware, software, and services suppliers into the datacenter, it takes a bit of time to get that data, get it right, and then aggregate it for a datacenter market analysis. …
IDC Boosts Datacenter Compute And Storage Spending Forecast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Micron Gears Up For Its Potential Datacenter Memory Boom
If you don’t like gut-wrenching, hair-raising, white-knuckling boom bust cycles, then do not go into the memory business. …
Micron Gears Up For Its Potential Datacenter Memory Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Time Has Come To Upgrade Aging Server Fleets
There has always been a tension in the datacenter between ever-advancing technology and the practical economic gravity of the company balance sheet. …
The Time Has Come To Upgrade Aging Server Fleets was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet?
The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …
What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer
Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. …
Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. …
The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can Marvell Profit As It Tries To Triple Its Business By 2028?
A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. …
Can Marvell Profit As It Tries To Triple Its Business By 2028? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Stacking Up Intel Gaudi Against Nvidia GPUs For AI
Here is something we don’t see much anymore when it comes to AI systems: list prices for the accelerators and the base motherboards that glue a bunch of them together into a shared compute complex. …
Stacking Up Intel Gaudi Against Nvidia GPUs For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software And Services For Profits, AI Hardware Is Only Table Stakes
A pattern seems to be emerging across the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, who have been largely waiting on the sidelines to get into the generative AI riches story. …
Software And Services For Profits, AI Hardware Is Only Table Stakes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.