Here is how we know computing could eventually be a peer to energy, transportation, sustenance, and healthcare as a basic infrastructure need – and will be a bigger part of our lives in the future, if the hyperscalers and cloud builders have their way: The front loading of enormous capital expenses. …
With GenAI Turbochargers, Google Is Shifting Its Cloud Into A Higher Gear was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Pent up demand for MI308 GPUs in China, which AMD has been trying to get a license to sell since early last year, were approved so that $360 million in Instinct GPU sales that were not officially part of the pipeline made their way onto the AMD books in Q4 2025. …
AMD Finally Makes More Money On GPUs Than CPUs In A Quarter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
During his more than two decades with Nvidia, Rev Lebaredian has had a ringside seat to the show that has been the evolution of modern AI, from the introduction of the AlexNet deep convolutional neural network that made waves by drastically lowering the error rate at the 2012 ImageNet challenge to the introduction of generative AI and now agentic AI, where systems can create AI assistance to help with knowledge work. …
Dassault And Nvidia Bring Industrial World Models To Physical AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you want to test out an idea in HPC simulation and modeling and see how it affects a broad array of scientific applications, there is probably not a better place than the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas. …
TACC Explores Mixed Precision And FP64 Emulation For HPC With Horizon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED CONTENT Physical AI and robotics are moving from the lab to the real world – and the cost of getting it wrong is no longer theoretical. …
Robotics Will Break AI infrastructure: Here’s What Comes Next was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software giant Oracle has a vast installed base of enterprise customers that it has agglomerated over the decades that gives it the cash flow to do many things. …
Oracle’s Financing Primes The OpenAI Pump was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The market researchers at Gartner have extended their forecast out to 2027 and dropped 2024 from the view since it is now more than a year past. …
Gartner Takes Another Stab At Forecasting AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everyone is jumpy about how much capital expenses Microsoft has on the books in 2025 and what it expects to spend on datacenters and their hardware in 2026. …
Microsoft Is More Dependent On OpenAI Than The Converse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to know the state of the art in GenAI model development, you watch what the Super 8 hyperscalers and cloud builders are doing and you also keep an eye on the major model builders outside of these companies – mainly, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI as well as a few players in China like DeepSeek. …
Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft is not just the world’s biggest consumer of OpenAI models, but also still the largest partner providing compute, networking, and storage to OpenAI as it builds its latest GPT models. …
Microsoft Takes On Other Clouds With “Braga” Maia 200 AI Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With the hyperscalers and the cloud builders all working on their own CPU and AI XPU designs, it is no wonder that Nvidia has been championing the neoclouds that can’t afford to try to be everything to everyone – this is the very definition of enterprise computing – and that, frankly, are having trouble coming up with the trillions of dollars to cover the 150 gigawatts to more than 200 gigawatts of datacenter capacity that is estimated to be on the books between 2025 and 2030 for AI workloads. …
Nvidia’s $2 Billion Investment In CoreWeave Is A Drop In A $250 Billion Bucket was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Amid the myriad discussions about AI – from the astounding amount of money being spent by vendors and enterprises and the debate about actual ROI those businesses are getting to the technology’s effect on cybersecurity, jobs, and the fear of disinformation and resulting distrust – it’s easy to forget its usefulness in particular industries. …
Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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AI Is Coming To Solve Your System Outages was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel has been pushing its two-core server CPU strategy for so long, in one form or another, that we have become accustomed to differentiating products the way Intel does and then try to figure out what workloads these chips might be useful for. …
Intel Is Still Struggling In The Datacenter, But It Could Get Better was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta Platforms is not happy just being the social network for the world anymore. …
Meta Platforms Metamorphizing Into An AI Cloud For Sovereigns was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money. …
Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No, we did not miss the fact that Nvidia did an “acquihire” of AI accelerator and system startup and rival Groq on Christmas Eve. …
Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If the GenAI expansion runs out of gas, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s most important foundry for advanced chippery, will be the first to know. …
TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If GenAI is going to go mainstream and not just be a bubble that helps prop up the global economy for a couple of years, AI inference is going to have to come down in price – and do so faster than it has done thus far. …
Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As the year came to an end, we tore apart IDC’s assessments for server spending, including the huge jump in accelerated supercomputers for running GenAI and more traditional machine learning workloads and as this year got started, we did forensic analysis and modeling based on the company’s reckoning of Ethernet switching and routing revenues. …
By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.