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The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. But what if the operating system is the problem?

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HexaMesh: Chiplet Topologies Inspired By Nature

With the reticle limit for chip manufacturing pretty much set in stone (pun intended) at 26 millimeters by 33 millimeters down to 2 nanometer transistor sizes with extreme ultraviolet lithography techniques and being cut in half to 26 millimeters by 16.5 millimeters for the High-NA extreme ultraviolet lithography needed to

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Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray

As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. Exactly when depends on who you ask, but their popularity began to ramp along with machine learning technologies over the past 10

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AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges

The edge is continuing to become a place where IT infrastructure vendors need to be, and that includes chip makers, all of whom have strategies to push their silicon to where the data is increasingly being generated and needs to be stored, processed, and analyzed. AMD, armed with the technology

AI

A Tale Of Two Nvidia Eos Supercomputers

Note: This story augments and corrects information that originally appeared in Half Eos’d: Even Nvidia Can’t Get Enough H100s For Its Supercomputers, which was published on February 15. So, as it turns out, there are two supercomputers named Eos, and even the people in the press relations department at Nvidia,

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There Is Still A Place For FPGAs In The Datacenter

By the time that the founders of Achronix, who were all techies from Cornell University, decided to found their own FPGA company twenty years ago, FPGAs had already been in the field for twenty years and the market was dominated by Xilinx (now part of AMD) and Altera (still part

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The AI Wave Finally Starts Lifting Dell And HPE

It is beginning to look like the Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprose, the world’s two biggest original equipment manufacturers, are finally going to start benefitting from the generative AI wave, mainly because they are finally getting enough allocations of GPUs from Nvidia and AMD that they can start addressing

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Synopsys Shepherds Circuits Towards 1.6T Ethernet

The Ethernet roadmap has had a few bumps and potholes in the four and a half decades since the 10M generation was first published in 1980. Remember the long time between 10 Gb/sec to 100 Gb/sec and the 40 Gb/sec bridge between the two that represented the first time we

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The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera

Back in 2015, when we were launching The Next Platform, a lot of stuff was going on all at the same time, which is part of the zeitgeist that we were tapping into and that we wanted to chronical upon and participate within. And Intel was front and center of

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A Different View From The Edge

Sponsored Feature: With technology, as with real estate, location is everything. The new, post-pandemic world of distributed information technology (IT) means that the physical separation between core enterprise infrastructure and the operational technology (OT) systems that monitor and control industrial equipment is perhaps more acute than ever. Server, storage, and