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Doing The Math On CPU-Native AI Inference

September 1, 2021 Mark Funk 4

A number of chip companies — importantly Intel and IBM, but also the Arm collective and AMD — have come out recently with new CPU designs that feature native Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its related machine learning (ML). …

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The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering

August 13, 2021 Mark Funk 9

Scanning through Power10’s detailed announcement material, I’ve seen a lot architecturally that intrigues an avid reader of The Next Platform like myself, but one item – one that IBM calls “Memory Inception” and IBM-based techie material calls enablement for a “memory cluster” – really caught my eye. …

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Thought Experiment: How Did Zoom’s Infrastructure Keep Us Connected?

August 2, 2021 Mark Funk 2

What bit of technology got us through the pandemic, was available for scaling up at just the right time to keep a pretty sizeable chunk of our economy working, redefined education on a moment’s notice, and now is redefining for the world the entire notion of work?  …

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