It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker’s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. …
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is a paradox for you: Spending on infrastructure to support generative AI is apparently booming, as clearly evidenced by the skyrocketing revenues and profits of Nvidia. …
Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has shown significant growth and promise, with data generated by IoT devices alone expected to reach 73.1 zettabytes by 2025. …
AI At The Edge: From Theory To Practice was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With large language models, bigger is better (and faster) but better is also better. …
Meta’s Llama 3 AI Is Smart, But Who Is Going To Profit From It? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everyone is in a big hurry to get the latest and greatest GPU accelerators to build generative AI platforms. …
TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions of servers and storage arrays to run applications for them at the same time there was the beginnings of consolidation among the OEMs who created the servers and storage used by nearly all enterprises, including dot-com startups. …
What Happens When Hyperscalers And Clouds Buy Most Servers And Storage? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …
Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …
Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There was a time – and it doesn’t seem like that long ago – that the datacenter chip market was a big-money but relatively simple landscape, with CPUs from Intel and AMD and Arm looking to muscle its way in and GPUs mostly from Nvidia with some from AMD and Intel looking to muscle its way in. …
AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: Generative AI is the subject of significant interest from enterprises busy looking to use it to help them improve business processes and build innovative new applications and services which can attract new customers and grow revenue. …
Looking To Adopt Generative AI Within Your Organization? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you control your code base and you have only a handful of applications that run at massive scale – what some have called hyperscale – then you, too, can win the Chip Jackpot like Meta Platforms and a few dozen companies and governments in the world have. …
With MTIA v2 Chip, Meta Can Do AI Inference, But Not Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The steady rise of AI over the past several years – and the accelerated growth with the introduction generative AI since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 – has shifted Intel’s status as a challenger in a chip market that it long had dominated. …
Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you are wondering why Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has been working so hard to get the company’s foundry business not only back on track but utterly transformed into a merchant foundry that, by 2030 or so can take away some business from archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the reason is simple. …
Google Joins The Homegrown Arm Server CPU Club was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have said it before, and we will say it again right here: If you can make a matrix math engine that runs the PyTorch framework and the Llama large language model, both of which are open source and both of which come out of Meta Platforms and both of which will be widely adopted by enterprises, then you can sell that matrix math engine. …
With Gaudi 3, Intel Can Sell AI Accelerators To The PyTorch Masses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have been tracking the financial results for the big players in the datacenter that are public companies for three and a half decades, but starting last year we started dicing and slicing the numbers for the largest IT suppliers for stuff that goes into datacenters so we can give you a better sense what is and what is not happening out there. …
Mixed Results For The Datacenter Thundering Thirteen In Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The biggest benefit that is coming from the separation of the Intel chip design and marketing business from its foundry operations is that Intel’s chip product groups no longer have to shoulder the totality of the immense costs of its manufacturing operations. …
Intel’s Chips No Longer Pay More Than Their Fair Share Of Foundry Costs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In 2024, there is no shortage of interconnects if you need to stitch tens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of accelerators together. …
Celestial AI Wants To Break The Memory Wall, Fuse HBM With DDR5 was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. …
The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.