Compute
Intel Hits Bottom In The Datacenter – Maybe
It would be hard to pick a worse time to not have an XPU offload engine that can do lots of matrix math at mixed precision and that can ship in volume. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Control
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
AI
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer”
Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker’s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. …
Compute
Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom
Here is a paradox for you: Spending on infrastructure to support generative AI is apparently booming, as clearly evidenced by the skyrocketing revenues and profits of Nvidia. …
Edge
AI At The Edge: From Theory To Practice
The Internet of Things (IoT) has shown significant growth and promise, with data generated by IoT devices alone expected to reach 73.1 zettabytes by 2025. …
AI
Meta’s Llama 3 AI Is Smart, But Who Is Going To Profit From It?
With large language models, bigger is better (and faster) but better is also better. …
Compute
TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry
Everyone is in a big hurry to get the latest and greatest GPU accelerators to build generative AI platforms. …
Compute
What Happens When Hyperscalers And Clouds Buy Most Servers And Storage?
We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions of servers and storage arrays to run applications for them at the same time there was the beginnings of consolidation among the OEMs who created the servers and storage used by nearly all enterprises, including dot-com startups. …
Compute
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
HPC
Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer
Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …