Under Lisa Su’s more than eleven years as AMD’s chief executive officer, the company has returned from Opteron exile to be a formidable CPU foe to Intel in the datacenter, due in large part to the innovation around its Zen microarchitecture and Epyc server chips driven by Su, chief technology officer Mark Papermaster, and countless others. …
AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Having an annual cadence for the improvement of AI systems is a great thing if you happen to be buying the newest iron at exactly the right time. …
Nvidia’s Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron Six Months Ahead Of Launch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The number of AI inference chip startups in the world is gross – literally gross, as in a dozen dozens. …
Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons’ paradox, it’s the supercomputing sector. …
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
A total addressable market is a forecast of what will be sold – more precisely, what can be manufactured and sold. …
HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can’t Meet Demand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. …
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI is changing what “good” looks like in the modern datacenter. …
Building The AI Factory Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
An alien flying in from space aboard a comet would look down on Earth and see that there is this highly influential and famous software company called Nvidia that just so happens to have a massively complex and ridiculously profitable hardware business running a collection of proprietary and open source software that about three quarters of its approximately 40,000 employees create. …
Nvidia Is The Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford To Give It Away was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The way that organizations plan, design and run a datacenter was already under pressure. …
Tomorrow’s Datacenter Won’t Be Like Yesterday’s – Here’s Why was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We can all talk until we are blue in the face about how weird it is for so much money to be spent on servers during the GenAI boom, but after reviewing the latest market report from IDC – which is one again but sporadically giving out some stats to the public – we thought that to feel the full impact of this change, we should draw you a picture of the past 26 years of server revenues by quarter so you can take it all in. …
How Sustainable Is This Crazy Server Spending? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.