Timothy Prickett Morgan

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Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now

Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of Innovium in August 2021, the company is building a credible networking stack that can take on Broadcom, Cisco Systems, and Nvidia for the $1.3 billion or so in switch chips sold into the datacenter each year, which is growing at about 15 percent a year to more than $2 billion by 2026. …

Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Datacenter System Makers Leary But Not Weary

The central banks of the world, led by the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve, want to curb inflation and they are willing to cause a small recession or at least get very close to one to shock us all into controlling the acquisitive habits we developed during the lockdowns of the early years of the coronavirus pandemic. …

Datacenter System Makers Leary But Not Weary was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Move Over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama

Large language models, also known as AI foundation models and part of a broader category of AI transformer models, have been growing at an exponential pace in terms of the number of parameters they can process and the amount of compute and memory bandwidth capacity they require. …

Move Over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours

You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …

Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Nvidia To Build DGX Complexes In Clouds To Better Capitalize On Generative AI

GPU computing platform maker Nvidia announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in January, which showed the same digestion of already acquired capacity by the hyperscalers and cloud builders and the same hesitation to spend by enterprises that other compute engine makers for datacenter computing are also seeing. …

Nvidia To Build DGX Complexes In Clouds To Better Capitalize On Generative AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows

The increasing cost of goods and services is making everyone a little crazy, and corporate IT departments are not immune from the effects of the dual concerns of rising inflation and the desire by central banks to use interest rates to curb our economic enthusiasm and slow that inflation to a much more sane level. …

Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Long Patience Of Lenovo Starts Paying Off In The Datacenter

It took a long, long time to convert the old IBM PC business acquired in 2004 into the dominant supplier of client devices in the world, but Lenovo is nothing but not patient and bypassed HP Inc in 2013 and has had the largest share of the market since that time. …

The Long Patience Of Lenovo Starts Paying Off In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Luminaries Argue For The Interconnect We Could Have Already Had

Here is an old saw that we bring out of the toolbox every now and then, and we use it just enough so it has never really gotten rusty and it can cut through a lot of crap to make a point: The datacenter, and perhaps all clients, would have been better off if InfiniBand had just become the ubiquitous I/O switched fabric standard it was designed to be back in the late 1990s. …

Luminaries Argue For The Interconnect We Could Have Already Had was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Supermicro Aspires To Be A $10 Billion Server Maker

Supermicro has always been an interesting IT supplier for the datacenter, and it is getting more interesting by the year as it continues to grow very fast and has set itself a goal of break $10 billion in annual sales, which would put Supermicro behind only Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on par with Inspur, and ahead of

Since the advent of the X86 server market thirty years ago, Supermicro has been unique among its server making peers in a number of ways. …

Supermicro Aspires To Be A $10 Billion Server Maker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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