Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced a $6.5 billion acquisition of Arm server CPU upstart Ampere Computing back in March, and that deal has not yet closed. …
“Polaris” AmpereOne M Arm CPUs Sighted In Oracle A4 Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If Broadcom says that co-packaged optics is ready for prime time and can compete with other ways of linking switch ASICs to fiber optic cables, then it is very unlikely that Broadcom is wrong. …
The Third Time Will Be The Charm For Broadcom Switch Co-Packaged Optics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the basement of Connecticut’s Beneski Museum of Natural History sit the fossilized footprints of a small, chicken-sized dinosaur. …
How HPC Is Igniting Discoveries In Dinosaur Locomotion – And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The world’s largest and one might argue most important chip foundry is telling Wall Street that its AI-related sales are running ahead of schedule. …
TSMC Is Running Ahead Of Forecasts On AI Growth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For years, Oracle has found itself solidly in the second tier of cloud providers, well behind the top three of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which combined account for more than 60 percent of global cloud infrastructure services market. …
Ellison: Oracle Is Leveraging All Of Its Advantages To Build A Different Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is Oracle OpenWorld CloudWorld AI World this week, so we expect a lot of AI infrastructure announcements from Big Red, with AI being the biggest new workload to hit the enterprise in decades. …
Oracle First In Line For AMD “Altair” MI450 GPUs, “Helios” Racks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
“Platformization” eventually comes to every high-profile IT space as the number of tools and amount of complexity increases. …
Google Rolls Up Gemini And AI Tools Into An Enterprise Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If it seems like OpenAI is shaking up the IT market every other day or so, that is because that is precisely what it is doing. …
Broadcom Goes Wide With AI Systems And Takes On The ODMs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue may have missed the boat on being one of the big AI model builders, but its IBM Research division has built its own enterprise-grade family of models and its server and research divisions have plenty of experience building accelerators and supercomputers. …
IBM Ships Homegrown “Spyre” Accelerators, Embraces Anthropic For AI Push was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Wide area networks and datacenter interconnects, or DCIs, as we have known them for the past decade or so are nowhere beefy enough or fast enough to take on the job of scaling AI training workloads across multiple datacenters. …
Cisco Takes On Broadcom, Nvidia For Fat AI Datacenter Interconnects was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is one thing for the market researchers of the world to make prognostications about hardware, software, and services spending relating to the GenAI boom. …
Dell Says It Can Finally Make Some Big Money On GenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In early 2024, we all had been wondering how OpenAI was going to pay for its $100 billion Stargate datacenter infrastructure project it was rumored to be planning with Microsoft. …
Did AMD Use ChatGPT To Come Up With Its OpenAI Partnership Deal? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Of all of the hyperscalers and cloud builders, Meta Platforms has always been the one that we expected to design and have manufactured its own CPU and XPU accelerator compute engines. …
Meta Buys Rivos To Accelerate Compute Engine Engineering was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What does Cerebras Systems, the first successful waferscale computing commercializer and a contender in the race to provide compute for the world’s burgeoning AI inference workload, do for an encore? …
What Is Cerebras Going To Do With That $1.1 Billion In New Funding? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back at the end of July, we had a discussion with CPU maker AMD and the topic of conversation was hybrid cloud. …
Arm Says Neoverse Is A More Universal Compute Substrate Than X86 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What’s the difference between Meta Platforms and OpenAI? The big one – and perhaps the most important one in the long run – is that when Meta Platforms does a deal with neocloud CoreWeave, it actually has a revenue stream from its advertising on various Web properties that it can pump back into AI investments while OpenAI is still burning money much faster than it is making it. …
Get Your Money For Nothing, Chips Definitely Not For Free was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At some point, when the cloud bills get very high and the AI usage starts going up and up, the enterprise is going to want to stop paying a cloud and get their own iron and co-locate it in a rentable datacenter. …
Managing AI Datacenter Networks With – You Guessed It – AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.