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Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses?
In the absence of hard numbers, we have never been shy about making estimates because educated guesses is all you sometimes have to make a decision or to derive some kind of insight. …
Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched
While not perfectly elastic in the economic sense, where there is a linear relationship between price and volume, we have always contended that the relationship between the price of IT infrastructure and its cost are reasonably elastic. …
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long
Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. …
The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking
If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds
If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
We will always complain about the weather. It is part of the human condition. …
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models
If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a corpus of your own textual data on which to train that LLM. …
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models
We read a fairly large number of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and it is a rare thing indeed when we can recommend that everyone – or damned near everyone – should read a paper. …
The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Money Changes Everything For SiPearl
If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …
Money Changes Everything For SiPearl was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made?
Historically Intel put all its cumulative chip knowledge to work advancing Moore’s Law and applying those learnings to its future CPUs. …
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession
The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure. …
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap
It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. …
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites
We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip
Disaggregation means a lot of things, but the one thing that it most certainly does not mean is that every little thing in a system necessarily has to be smashed apart and then put back together in a composable ways. …
Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers?
There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.