Compute
Fixing Intel Foundry Is Like Stopping Tripping Down The Stairs
Technical debt is a real thing, as any IT manager, programmer, system administrator or SRE, or end user will tell you. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Connect
Engineering CPO Is Easy – Scaling It For AI Will Take An Ecosystem
It has taken a lot of dreaming and even more engineering, but the many promises of silicon photonics are starting to make their way into real products in the datacenter. …
AI
IBM Is Playing A Very Long AI Game With Its Customers
Over the next few years, Big Blue may not build the biggest AI business in the world by any stretch of the imagination, but we do have confidence that it will build a collection of AI products and services that are among the most profitable. …
Compute
NextSilicon Takes Aim At CPUs And GPUs With “Maverick-2” Dataflow Engine
It has taken eight years and $303 million in seed and three rounds of venture funding, but NextSilicon is today delivering several incarnations of its 64-bit dataflow engine, called Maverick-2, which was revealed this time last year when the company dropped out of stealth mode. …
AI
Software Pushes The AI Pareto Frontier More Than Hardware
One of the neat things about modern AI is that a whole new generation of people in a field outside of economics (but certainly driving the modern economy) has been introduced to curves showing the Pareto frontier. …
Compute
“Polaris” AmpereOne M Arm CPUs Sighted In Oracle A4 Instances
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced a $6.5 billion acquisition of Arm server CPU upstart Ampere Computing back in March, and that deal has not yet closed. …
Connect
The Third Time Will Be The Charm For Broadcom Switch Co-Packaged Optics
If Broadcom says that co-packaged optics is ready for prime time and can compete with other ways of linking switch ASICs to fiber optic cables, then it is very unlikely that Broadcom is wrong. …
HPC
How HPC Is Igniting Discoveries In Dinosaur Locomotion – And Beyond
In the basement of Connecticut’s Beneski Museum of Natural History sit the fossilized footprints of a small, chicken-sized dinosaur. …
Compute
TSMC Is Running Ahead Of Forecasts On AI Growth
The world’s largest and one might argue most important chip foundry is telling Wall Street that its AI-related sales are running ahead of schedule. …
Compute
Oracle First In Line For AMD “Altair” MI450 GPUs, “Helios” Racks
It is Oracle OpenWorld CloudWorld AI World this week, so we expect a lot of AI infrastructure announcements from Big Red, with AI being the biggest new workload to hit the enterprise in decades. …