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.
Sponsored Content: The newly launched Intel Xeon 6 processors are designed to boost AI and other compute intensive workload performance for datacenter servers. …
New Chips Built For The Age Of AI was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always been more interested in providing a choice of compute engines compared to Dell, which was the underdog in servers for a long time. …
HPE Is Also Having Trouble Making Money With AI Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With Intel’s foundry still trying to get caught up with the process and packaging offered by archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Intel’s server CPU product line has to “make do” with what the foundry has and create products that give the right mix of performance and price to compete with CPU rival AMD in the X86 space and the Arm collective that is creating a new CPU tier in the datacenter. …
Intel Brings A Big Fork To A Server CPU Knife Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Computex, the annual conference in Taiwan to showcase the island nation’s vast technology business, has been transformed into what amounts to a half-time show for the datacenter IT year. …
AMD Previews “Turin” Epyc CPUs, Expands Instinct GPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …
Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.