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Intel Sometimes Charges A Hefty Premium For Sapphire Rapids
No matter what, and without any excuses about Moore’s Law slowing down, those buying compute, storage, and networking expect at least one thing in any generational leap in a device: That the cost per unit of capacity goes down. …
Intel Sometimes Charges A Hefty Premium For Sapphire Rapids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing speaks, the datacenter sector of the IT industry listens because, with few exceptions, this foundry etches the compute, networking, and storage engines that power the datacenter. …
The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs
If you are thinking that you are having flashbacks as Intel is launching the “Sapphire Rapids” server CPUs – the company’s fourth generation in the Xeon SP family of server processors – you are not alone. …
The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking
Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …
Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise
There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …
Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Teases Details On Future MI300 Hybrid Compute Engines
We were under the distinct impression that AMD was not going to talk much about its datacenter compute engines at the Consumer Electronics Show, having just launched its “Genoa” Epyc 9004 server CPUs in November with much fanfare. …
AMD Teases Details On Future MI300 Hybrid Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Interesting Years Ahead For Servers
By every measure we can get our hands on, 2022 was a bumper year for server shipments and server spending, which is good indicator for the appetite for new kinds of applications and the expansion of existing applications in the world at large. …
The Interesting Years Ahead For Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The World Is Still Hungry For Servers – For Now
Two observations. One: When the world goes into recession, the server market has immediately followed. …
The World Is Still Hungry For Servers – For Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder
What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …
Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Making Sure AMD Has The Complete Tech Package
The chief technology officers in the tech world have done their time in the engineering trenches, writing their papers, getting their patents, and helping suppliers up and down the IT supply chain make the money that keeps the innovation flowing. …
Making Sure AMD Has The Complete Tech Package was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It
If there is a recession underway – and we are not convinced that there is even a little bit – then the Ethernet switch market did not get the memo. …
Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Deutsche Bank Tag Teams With Nvidia On Financial Services AI
In many industries, embracing AI in the application software stack it is not just a matter of training some large language models or recommender systems against general and then specific datasets and plugging it in. …
Deutsche Bank Tag Teams With Nvidia On Financial Services AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can Anyone Make Money From Modern Storage?
In the past three decades, there has been no shortage of companies with interesting ideas to solve very specific data storage and retrieval problems associated with high performance computing in some form or another. …
Can Anyone Make Money From Modern Storage? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC
When it comes to hardware, there was not a lot of big news coming out of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2022 conference this week. …
AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Counting The Cost Of Training Large Language Models
It has been becoming increasingly clear – anecdotally at least – just how expensive it is to train large language models and recommender systems, which are arguably the two most important workloads driving AI into the enterprise. …
Counting The Cost Of Training Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking Datacenter Computing With The CEOs Of AMD And Supermicro
Sponsored Feature: With every server CPU launch, component and system maker Supermicro always wants to be at the front of the line to offer its channel partners and large direct customer base the opportunity to get systems based on the hottest new technologies. …
Talking Datacenter Computing With The CEOs Of AMD And Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market
It is tough to get excited about mature markets that grow at a steady rate unless it happens to be the most profitable part of the market. …
Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. …
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World
Changing the compute paradigm in the datacenter, or even extending it or augmenting it in some fashion, is no easy task. …
Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.