Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the “largest architectural shift in over a decade,” they ain’t kidding. …
It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. …
Commissioned In just about any situation where you are making capital investments in equipment, you are worried about three things: performance, price/performance, and total cost of ownership. …
In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters of systems all play in the IT ecosystem. …
As everybody in the world now knows, there are downsides to just-in-time manufacturing during a global pandemic. …
Cash used to be king, and now market capitalization is. That’s one of the reasons that the biggest players in the semiconductor arena are snapping up competitors, startups, and suppliers in adjacent chip markets at an increasing pace and with very large bags of “money.” …
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. …
SPONSORED Sometimes, bad things turn into excellent opportunities that can utterly transform markets. …
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