AI
Everybody But Nvidia And TSMC Has To Make It Up In Volume With AI
We keep seeing the same thing over and over again in the AI racket, and people keep reacting to it like it is a new or surprising idea. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
AI
Oracle Is Using OpenAI To Build A Platform For The Enterprise
Did people complain – and by people, we mean Wall Street – as the world’s largest bookseller invested huge amounts of money to transform itself into an alternative to driving to Wal-Mart? …
HPC
Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant
We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. …
Connect
IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy
This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. …
Compute
AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs
Updated: We have obtained new information in the wake of publishing our story. …
Connect
With Celestial AI Buy, Marvell Scales Up The Datacenter And Itself
It was only a matter of time before Marvell was going to make another silicon photonics acquisition, and the $2.5 billion sale of its automotive Ethernet business to Infineon for $2.5 billion has given the company this past summer netted out to about half of the $3.25 billion that the company is shelling out to get its hands on Celestial AI, one of the several upstarts that hopes to hook compute engines, memory, and switches together using on-chip optical engines and light pipes. …
Compute
With Trainium4, AWS Will Crank Up Everything But The Clocks
The AI model makers of the world have been waiting for more than a year to get their hands on the Trainium3 XPUs, which have been designed explicitly for both training and inference and which present a credible alternative to Nvidia’s “Blackwell” B200 and B300 GPUs as well as Google’s “Trillium” TPU v6e and “Ironwood” TPU v7p accelerators. …
AI
The Road To HPC And AI Profits Is Paved With Good Intentions
With a profitable PC business that has 25 percent of global shipments (thanks in large part to its acquisition of IBM’s PC business two decades ago) plus a respectable smartphone business (by virtue of its Motorola acquisition), the client device business at Lenovo is finally back to where it was during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and is consistently delivering what are decent profits for this cut-throat part of the IT sector. …
Compute
AI Propels Dell’s Datacenter Top Line – Bottom Line Is A Challenge
Nvidia may have cornered the market for the compute engines and networks that link them to train GenAI models, and the company has a very large share of the platforms that do inference, too. …
HPC
TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Sets The Pace For Academic Science
Updated: As we expected, the “Vista” supercomputer that the Texas Advanced Computing Center installed last year as a bridge between the current “Stampede-3” and “Frontera” production system and its future “Horizon” system coming next year was indeed a precursor of the architecture that TACC would choose for the Horizon machine. …