Partner Content: AI used to feel like a far off possibility – a complex, expensive technology belonging to tech billionaires and giant corporations. …
AI For The Masses Is Already Here was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You can build a software ecosystem if you have time. But sometimes, you want to speed things up, and then you have to pay to build that ecosystem out. …
AMD Builds Out Its AI Software And Services Stack With Silo AI Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The decades of Moore’s Law improvements in server CPU performance and economics have trained us all to think that no matter what, we will always see a lower cost per unit of performance with each successive generation of processors. …
AWS Charges A Hefty Premium For Graviton 4 Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you have to compile the revenue streams of thousands of major IT hardware, software, and services suppliers into the datacenter, it takes a bit of time to get that data, get it right, and then aggregate it for a datacenter market analysis. …
IDC Boosts Datacenter Compute And Storage Spending Forecast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you don’t like gut-wrenching, hair-raising, white-knuckling boom bust cycles, then do not go into the memory business. …
Micron Gears Up For Its Potential Datacenter Memory Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There has always been a tension in the datacenter between ever-advancing technology and the practical economic gravity of the company balance sheet. …
The Time Has Come To Upgrade Aging Server Fleets was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …
What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. …
Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. …
The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. …
Can Marvell Profit As It Tries To Triple Its Business By 2028? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: Now in its seventh year, the 2024 AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit will be held at the Signia by Hilton hotel in San Jose, CA between the 9th and 12th of September. …
Need To Know More About AI Design And Deployment? was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. …
HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Murray Thom, vice president for quantum technology evangelism for D-Wave, knows that his company for more than two decades has played a key role in a somewhat unusual industry. …
D-Wave Is Still Making The Case For Annealing Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions about how long it takes the group to bring the latest spec to the industry. …
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Here is something we don’t see much anymore when it comes to AI systems: list prices for the accelerators and the base motherboards that glue a bunch of them together into a shared compute complex. …
Stacking Up Intel Gaudi Against Nvidia GPUs For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A pattern seems to be emerging across the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, who have been largely waiting on the sidelines to get into the generative AI riches story. …
Software And Services For Profits, AI Hardware Is Only Table Stakes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Partner Content Power and cooling in datacenters for well over a decade have been a challenge for enterprises trying to meet their compute needs while keeping the reins on costs. …
Running AI And Edge Workloads On CPUs was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
It has been more than a decade since Google figured out that it needed to control its own hardware fate when it came to the tensor processing that was going to be required to support machine learning algorithms. …
Lots Of Questions On Google’s “Trillium” TPU v6, A Few Answers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …
Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.