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Future Proofing Inference Servers With PCI-Express Switches
At this point in the history of datacenter systems, there can be no higher praise than to be chosen by Nvidia as a component supplier for its AI systems. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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AI Reshapes The Ethernet Datacenter Switch Market
Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph Ethernet switching in the datacenter once again. …
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Upstart Xsight Labs Raises Up The Programmable Switch Banner High
The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. …
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Scaling The Storage Pyramid With Micron’s Datacenter Memory And Flash
SPONSORED CONTENT Consider, for a moment, the current state of AI accelerators and datacenter GPUs. …
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HBM Can Keep Micron Out Of The Next Memory Bust Cycle
An interesting thought experiment to do in 2025 when looking at the financial results of just about any of the key compute, storage, and networking component and system suppliers is to imagine how any given company’s numbers would look if you backed out the AI portions of its business. …
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Why Did SoftBank Just Buy Ampere Computing?
The world is getting stranger, isn’t it? We understand, given the difficulties of selling Arm server chips to hyperscalers and cloud builders that are also designing and manufacturing their own Arm CPUs, why Ampere Computing, the only successful freestanding Arm server CPU supplier to even get its chips into its chosen tech titan customers, would want to be acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
Compute
Nvidia Draws GPU System Roadmap Out To 2028
High tech companies always have roadmaps. Whether or not they show them to the public, they are always showing them to key investors if they are in their early stages, getting ready to sell some shares on Wall Street to make money – literally, going public – or talking to key customers who are interested in buying a platform, not just a point product to solve a problem today. …
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Nvidia Weaves Silicon Photonics Into InfiniBand And Ethernet
When it comes to networking, the rules around here at The Next Platform are simple. …
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AI Infrastructure Spending: Is The Boom Chemical Or Nuclear?
The IT infrastructure market is undergoing its own kind of climate change thanks to the overheating of the market due to the GenAI boom. …
Compute
Lip-Bu Tan: Intel’s New – And Maybe Last – CEO
In his letter to Intel employees, new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan, who starts his new job next Tuesday, tells them that he is “never deterred by challenges.” …