SPONSORED Sometimes, bad things turn into excellent opportunities that can utterly transform markets. Many years hence, when someone writes the history of the datacenter compute business, they will judge AMD tapping Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp to etch the cores in its second and third generation Epyc server processors to be …
Steve Fingerhut looks to the GPU when explaining what his company, Pliops, is working to achieve. Driven by Nvidia over the past several years, GPUs have become the go-to processors for running artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads in datacenters and in the cloud. In the same sense, Pliops, …
This is how a competitive chip market is supposed to look, and this is how a competitive chip maker recovers from faults, competes against a seemingly unassailable foe, and then rides up the revenue and income curves to be able to invest in the future and profit from the present. …
Sponsored We all know AI and machine learning rely on vast amounts of data, just as we all know the Internet is largely cat videos and other user-generated content no one ever looks at. Although the latter may well account for a large amount of the 6.72 ZB of data …
It is clear computing is in for a revolution if a company can have unicorn status with its main product still a few years away. In years past this mismatch in funding to goods would seem absurd but quantum computing is setting new trends, especially among VCs lately. If we …
For decades, Intel leaned heavily on its manufacturing prowess as a key advantage over its various competitors like AMD, which had its own chip foundry that it spun off in 2009 and which became Globalfoundries. Its network of fabs allowed Intel to maintain control of both the design and manufacturing …
Intel’s Data Center Group has just turned in the third best revenue quarter in its history, just behind the two thirteen-week periods that started off 2020, which was before the coronavirus pandemic had hit and just after it hit and the full effects were not seen as yet. Oh, and …
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Microsoft is intent on bending the supercomputing set its direction. Instead of just focusing on competing with other public clouds, they’re aiming directly at on-prem HPC, showing comparable or better performance to existing top 10 supercomputers, for example. “For years, HPC investments have been expensive up-front based on predictions– and …
SPONSORED If buoyant market figures are anything to go by, most enterprises already have a good grasp of the benefits of adopting hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). By tightly integrating compute, storage and networking in a HCI platform, organizations gain a cookie cutter level of simplicity, ease of scalability and management – whether …
Just a decade ago, the enterprise IT push was to make Hadoop the platform for storage and analytics. At that time, cloud hesitancy was still looming for large on-prem organizations. Hadoop, no matter how that ecosystem played out over the years, became a major source of investment with the idea …
Exascale systems are expensive but for labs retrofitting existing facilities for novel cooling, the compute, storage, network, and software are only the beginning of high costs. When exascale supercomputers are announced, everyone tends to focus on the cost and capabilities of the machines themselves but facilities-driven power and cooling, especially …
If the HPC and AI markets need anything right now, it is not more compute but rather more memory capacity at a very high bandwidth. We have plenty of compute in current GPU and FPGA accelerators, but they are memory constrained. Even at the high levels of bandwidth that have …
Atom Computing adds itself to a growing list of quantum systems makers with pedigreed founders, funding announcements, and a market that even the big players haven’t mastered. With no acquisition/cash-out goals apparent, no established market to chase, and competitive differentiation so nuanced, what’s the game? If the last five years …
For oil and gas companies looking at drilling wells in a new field, the issue becomes one of return vs. cost. The goal is simple enough: install the fewest number of wells that will draw them the most oil or gas from the underground reservoirs for the longest amount of …
IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right, Big Blue does have a sizeable share of the system budget. And …
Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology has been waiting for its moment in the sun for several years now. Despite its placement on the roadmaps of several chip manufacturers and as part of novel architectures like HPE’s shuttered memristor-based “The Machine” project, it never took off as a revolutionary memory technology, even …
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