Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. …
The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other problems down the road. …
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. …
The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We will always complain about the weather. It is part of the human condition. …
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a corpus of your own textual data on which to train that LLM. …
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST Over the past decade, the heat generated by server CPUs has increased by 3.5X and now is pushing 500 watts. …
Energy Efficiency Pays Its Way In The Datacenter was written by Elyse at The Next Platform.
Video has taken over the Internet, with almost 80 percent or so of the traffic being video. …
Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We read a fairly large number of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and it is a rare thing indeed when we can recommend that everyone – or damned near everyone – should read a paper. …
The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …
Money Changes Everything For SiPearl was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: Training an AI model takes an enormous amount of compute capacity coupled with high bandwidth memory. …
Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
HPE Converges 3PAR Block And Vast Data File Onto One Alletra MP Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Historically Intel put all its cumulative chip knowledge to work advancing Moore’s Law and applying those learnings to its future CPUs. …
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure. …
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.