Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. It is no secret that …
Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. And thanks to the flood of money being spent on AI training and inference systems, which is an …
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 …
There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. A global market is growing around quantum computing, with billions of dollars being …
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 …
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 …
It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. No one knows these facts better than Marvell Technology, who along with rival chip maker Broadcom, is seeking to benefit from the bevy of custom …
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COMMISSIONED: As an IT leader, you know that data management is one of the critical ingredients for cultivating successful AI initiatives. One does not simply walk into an AI implementation without properly curating and cleaning data and making it available to employees who need it. High quality data, of course, …
When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to resurgence, it was Intel that controlled the cadence of new compute engine introductions into the datacenter. Given this week, which started off with …
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 …
We did not think that today we would be writing about Pat Gelsinger “retiring” from the company that he loves best and most. Intel’s prodigal and now former chief executive officer was one of the few executives in the semiconductor industry who was trained by the company’s co-founders Gordon Moore, …
Current US president Joe Biden and once and future president Donald Trump do not agree on much. But they absolutely agree that advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques as well as chips made with those processes to host HPC and AI applications should not be easily accessible to the military in the …
Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. It is not, and the financials of Dell Technologies shows just how tough it can be even when things are …
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the …
Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. If you’re not familiar, ROCm is to AMD’s Instinct GPU accelerators what CUDA is to Nvidia GPUs. The respective software suites are essential to …
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, …
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