For as long as we can remember, the high performance computing business was one where it has been difficult for the manufacturers that build systems to make a buck. …
The Only Thing Worse Than Selling AI Servers Is Not Selling Them was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. …
AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With the months-long blip in manufacturing that delayed the “Blackwell” B100 and B200 generations of GPUs in the rear view mirror and nerves more calm about the potential threat that the techniques used in the AI models of Chinese startup DeepSeek better understood, Nvidia’s final quarter of its fiscal 2025 and its projections for continuing sequential growth in fiscal 2026 will bring joy to Wall Street. …
Blackwell Is The Fastest Ramping Compute Engine In Nvidia’s History was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field. …
Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
UPDATED Networking giant Cisco Systems and AI platform provider Nvidia have hammered out a deal to mix and match each other’s technologies to create a broader set of AI networking options for their respective and – importantly, prospective – customers. …
Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE While generative AI and GPU acceleration of AI training and inference have taken the world by storm, the datacenters of the world still have to think about CPUs – and think very carefully about them at that. …
Compute Engine Strategies In The Age Of GenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is no secret that chip maker Intel is having a tough time these days on a number of fronts, but it is important to remember that nearly two out of every three processors sold into the datacenter are Intel Inside. …
Intel Rounds Out “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 With A Slew Of Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you are creating Universal Storage, then by definition it has to do everything – meaning support every kind of data format and access protocol, and do so with good performance on all fronts. …
Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. …
Sizing Up Compute Engines For HPC Work At 64-Bit Precision was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: When it comes to artificial intelligence, it seems nothing succeeds like excess. …
Better AI Might Depend On The Data Infrastructure Getting Better First was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As if you don’t have enough to do with the AI revolution, Microsoft says that 2025 is also the year that organizations need to begin getting ready for quantum computing. …
With Majorana, Microsoft Says Quantum Is Years, Not Decades, Away was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …
Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …
Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The quantum computing space is replete with big-name companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel touting incremental but important steps they’re taking to bring the long-promised technology to the fore. …
German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT: As the technology industry continues its shift towards AI dominance, an important schism is opening up that threatens to impact scientific progress, along with important humanitarian endeavors such as disaster response. …
The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the hyperscalers and big cloud builders all are racing as fast as they can to build the biggest – and presumably the best – models, or collections of models, to win the AI race and become the Microsoft or Red Hat of commercial-grade models, the acquisition of AI hardware and envelope pushing on AI model architecture is not indicative of the adoption of AI by enterprises. …
Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …
HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nvidia may be shipping its “Blackwell” B100, B200, and GB200 compute engines, but not in enough volumes for server maker Supermicro to meet its revenue expectations in the quarter ended in December. …
Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …
Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After only a little more than a year of running Intel’s Data Center and AI group – which is probably about as much fun right now as falling down the stairs – Justin Hotard has departed the chip maker to become the next chief executive officer of Nokia, which interestingly enough has a renewed interest in building cloud networks and making money at that. …
Intel Datacenter Chief Departs To Run Nokia – Now What? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.