If you want to test out an idea in HPC simulation and modeling and see how it affects a broad array of scientific applications, there is probably not a better place than the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas. This is the where the flagship systems of …
SPONSORED CONTENT Physical AI and robotics are moving from the lab to the real world – and the cost of getting it wrong is no longer theoretical. With robots deployed in factories, warehouses, and public settings, large-scale simulation has become tightly coupled with real-world operations. Physical AI companies need new …
Software giant Oracle has a vast installed base of enterprise customers that it has agglomerated over the decades that gives it the cash flow to do many things. But what it does not have is the cash generation and top-notch credit ratings to afford to build all of the datacenters …
The market researchers at Gartner have extended their forecast out to 2027 and dropped 2024 from the view since it is now more than a year past. And rather than providing the very detailed forecast that it did in its September forecast, which we covered here, Gartner has decided to …
Everyone is jumpy about how much capital expenses Microsoft has on the books in 2025 and what it expects to spend on datacenters and their hardware in 2026. But the number that jumped out to us when reviewing Microsoft’s second quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended in December, was that …
If you want to know the state of the art in GenAI model development, you watch what the Super 8 hyperscalers and cloud builders are doing and you also keep an eye on the major model builders outside of these companies – mainly, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI as well as …
Microsoft is not just the world’s biggest consumer of OpenAI models, but also still the largest partner providing compute, networking, and storage to OpenAI as it builds its latest GPT models. And that gives Microsoft two reasons to build a better Maia AI accelerator, which it has just announced that …
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With the hyperscalers and the cloud builders all working on their own CPU and AI XPU designs, it is no wonder that Nvidia has been championing the neoclouds that can’t afford to try to be everything to everyone – this is the very definition of enterprise computing – and that, …
Amid the myriad discussions about AI – from the astounding amount of money being spent by vendors and enterprises and the debate about actual ROI those businesses are getting to the technology’s effect on cybersecurity, jobs, and the fear of disinformation and resulting distrust – it’s easy to forget its …
SPONSORED Your phone buzzes at 2 AM. The website is down. Slack has become a wall of red alerts, and customers are already tweeting. You stare at the screen, still half-asleep, trying to figure out where to even begin looking. This is the ritual that site reliability engineers (SREs) know …
Intel has been pushing its two-core server CPU strategy for so long, in one form or another, that we have become accustomed to differentiating products the way Intel does and then try to figure out what workloads these chips might be useful for. The Atom and E-core chips, which have …
Meta Platforms is not happy just being the social network for the world anymore. It’s aspirations, driven by the GenAI Boom, are much, much larger. So much so that the company has to figure out a way to work with the national governments of the world to become a player …
The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money. Aptly named chip upstart Upscale …
No, we did not miss the fact that Nvidia did an “acquihire” of AI accelerator and system startup and rival Groq on Christmas Eve. But, because our family was traveling on Christmas Day and The Next Platform was on holiday, we knew we would have to circle back to suss …
If the GenAI expansion runs out of gas, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s most important foundry for advanced chippery, will be the first to know. And, should the GenAI market deflate, it will be because all of the big players in the market – the hyperscalers, the cloud builders, …
If GenAI is going to go mainstream and not just be a bubble that helps prop up the global economy for a couple of years, AI inference is going to have to come down in price – and do so faster than it has done thus far. Token generation is …
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