But virtue of its scale out capability, which is key for driving the size of absolutely enormous AI clusters, and to its universality, Ethernet switch sales are booming, and if the recent history is any guide, we can expect Ethernet revenues will climb exponentially higher in the coming quarters as well. …
Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the early days of D-Wave’s history, the company made a decision to pursue annealing as its first technology to build a quantum computer because it promised to offer the fastest path to commercial quantum computing. …
D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Under Lisa Su’s more than eleven years as AMD’s chief executive officer, the company has returned from Opteron exile to be a formidable CPU foe to Intel in the datacenter, due in large part to the innovation around its Zen microarchitecture and Epyc server chips driven by Su, chief technology officer Mark Papermaster, and countless others. …
AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Having an annual cadence for the improvement of AI systems is a great thing if you happen to be buying the newest iron at exactly the right time. …
Nvidia’s Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron Six Months Ahead Of Launch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The number of AI inference chip startups in the world is gross – literally gross, as in a dozen dozens. …
Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons’ paradox, it’s the supercomputing sector. …
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
A total addressable market is a forecast of what will be sold – more precisely, what can be manufactured and sold. …
HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can’t Meet Demand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. …
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI is changing what “good” looks like in the modern datacenter. …
Building The AI Factory Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
An alien flying in from space aboard a comet would look down on Earth and see that there is this highly influential and famous software company called Nvidia that just so happens to have a massively complex and ridiculously profitable hardware business running a collection of proprietary and open source software that about three quarters of its approximately 40,000 employees create. …
Nvidia Is The Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford To Give It Away was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.