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In GPU We Antitrust

With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the European Union also having done the same, let’s play the “What if?” game for a just a moment. These “What ifs” are based on the

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HPE Walks Away From Risky $700 Million AI Deal

This probably happens more than we know, but sometimes OEMs and ODMs walk away from big deals because something is fishy. And that happened to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, a period that ended on October 31, as it “de-booked a large order” for $700

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The Datacenter Is The Accelerator

There is a fractal nature in modern computing that is only becoming more and more apparent as workloads have long since outstripped the capacity of a single server. Just looking at the renderings of the massive datacenter that social networker Meta Platforms is building in Louisiana only makes this more

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The Champagne Bottle Of AI Supercomputers

SPONSORED FEATURE  AI is such a unique workload that it warrants its own specialized clouds. Even within the big clouds, the AI training and inference clusters they rent access to are really separate machines with distinct architectures from the vast fleets of general purpose servers they run. Which means the

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Intel Xeon 6 With P-Cores Makes the Case For The Host CPU

PARTNER CONTENT  Since OpenAI first released ChatGPT into the world two years ago, generative AI has been a playground mostly for GPUs and primarily those from Nvidia, even though graphics chips from others and AI-focused silicon have tried to make their way in. Still, at least for the time being,