The expectations for GenAI are unreasonably high and the pressure on Nvidia is tectonic. …
Nvidia Sets The Datacenter Growth Bar Very High As Compute Sales Dip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we talked about a decade ago in the wake of launching The Next Platform, quantum computers – at least the fault tolerant ones being built by IBM, Google, Rigetti, and a few others – need a massive amount of traditional Von Neumann compute to help maintain their state, assist with qubit error correction, and assist with their computations. …
IBM And AMD Tag Team On Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With AMD having attaining more than 40 percent revenue share and more than 27 percent shipment share in the X86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, that means two things. …
Intel’s “Clearwater Forest” Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be A Beast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Just because the center of gravity for GenAI compute and other kinds of machine learning and data analytics has shifted from the CPU to the XPU accelerator – generally a GPU these days, but not universally – does not mean that the choice of the CPU for the system hosting those XPUs doesn’t matter. …
NeuReality Wants Its NR2 To Be Your Arm CPU For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has been clear for some time that Japan wants to have a certain amount of economic and technical independence when it comes to cloud computing in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Nvidia Tapped To Accelerate RIKEN’s FugakuNext Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Doubling the transistor count every two years and therefore cutting the price of a transistor in half because you can cram twice as many on a given area transformed computing and drove it during the CMOS chip era. …
Google Is Already Using The Future AI Network You Might Get In 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: As organizations race to harness the potential of AI, many are discovering that their existing data architectures are struggling to keep up. …
A Data Architecture For The Age Of AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Years before Amazon Web Services launched in March 2006, there were a slew of grid computing startups and incumbent system makers – and a few of them with deep supercomputing experience – that were hawking remotely accessible, utility-style computing on demand. …
It Is Very Hard To Catch AWS On The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT: For years, data science and engineering teams have faced a familiar challenge: turning vast, messy datasets into timely, reliable insights. …
Automating Data Pipelines With AI Agents was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
There are four businesses that are very difficult for an equipment manufacturer in the IT sector to make any money on: smartphones, PCs, datacenter servers, and services. …
Hope Is The First Phase Of A Strategy To Profit From Selling AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, when datacenter computing does a paradigm shift, things get cheaper, like the move to RISC/Unix systems in the 1990s, and then to X86 systems in the 2000s. …
To Beat Neocloud Rivals To OpenAI, CoreWeave Spends Like Crazy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Speaking metaphorically, the blast area of a datacenter should only be so large, for mechanical as well as technical reasons, in order to mitigate the risk of a failure taking out too many machines. …
Broadcom Stretches Switching Across Datacenters With Jericho 4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Jayshree Ullal, the chief executive officer of Arista Networks, has been pointing at the $10 billion revenue upper decks since the beginning of the AI boom, but is understandably hesitant about saying when the company would cross that threshold. …
Big AI Wave Will Lift Arista To $10 Billion Two Years Early was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Being in the high performance computing business, as AMD most definitely is, has its ups and downs. …
AMD Rides The HPC Tiger In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With cloud computing, HPC, and now AI driving enterprise computing and the technical challenges and cost connected to semiconductor design and manufacturing increasing, demand for chiplet architectures continues to increase. …
UCI-Express Cranks Up Chiplet Interconnect Speeds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A decade and a half of enterprise cloud adoption has spread vast amounts of data and processing around the globe, and the onslaught of generative AI – and now agentic AI – is only accelerating it. …
Oracle Cloud Launches Database Service for Agentic AI, Analytics Workloads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
D-Wave executives stirred up some controversy earlier this year when they claimed a smaller version of its Advantage 2 annealing quantum system, armed with 1,200 qubits, had reached “quantum supremacy,” – or “quantum advantage” – that significant but ill-defined time when a quantum system is able to solve a problem in much less time, at a lower cost, or more efficiently than the most powerful classical supercomputer. …
IBM Outlines Steps To Verify Claims Of Quantum Advantage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Building a successful cloud and growing it quarter after quarter, year after year, with first mover status or without it, is not an easy task. …
AI Embiggens The Big Clouds, Especially Microsoft was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A decade ago, when traditional machine learning techniques were first being commercialized, training was incredibly hard and expensive, but because models were relatively small, inference – running new data through a model to cause an application to act or react – was easy. …
For Financial Services Firms, AI Inference Is As Challenging As Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Generative AI is arguably the most complex application that humankind has ever created, and the math behind it is incredibly complex even if the results are simple enough to understand. …
Skimpy HBM Memory Opens Up The Way For AI Inference Memory Godbox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.