Making a graphics card for gamers is one thing, but manufacturing a rackscale supercomputer with over 600,000 components that burns 120 kilowatts of power, that has over 5,000 copper cables for an all-to-all interconnect mesh for 72 dual-chip compute engines, and that weighs over 3,000 pounds is another thing entirely. …
Beleaguered chip maker Intel has been looking for ways to capitalize on non-core, not large, but profitable parts of its business to raise funds for its ambitious plans to revitalize Intel Foundry and to also invest heavily in the Intel Products group. …
SPONSORED FEATURE: Back before there were AI factories, there were two generations of the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure supercomputer, built by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. …
The HPC centers of the world like fast networks and compute, but they are also always working under budget constraints unlike their AI peers out there in the enterprise, where money seems to be unlimited to what sometimes looks like an irrationally exuberant extent. …
If you want to be a leading in supplying AI models and AI applications, as well as AI infrastructure to run it, to the world, it is also helpful to have a business that needs a lot of AI that can underwrite the development of homegrown infrastructure that can be sold side-by-side with the standard in the industry. …
It is funny how companies can find money – lots of money – when they think IT infrastructure spending can save them money, make them money, or do both at the same time. …
Spending on AI systems in 2024 just utterly blew by the expectations of the major market researchers and those who dabble in metrics like we do. …
Mike Henry was interim chief product officer at AI inference company Groq in 2023, a position that put him in close contact with a lot of datacenter administrators and managers. …
Two weeks ago, before we began our nightmare travels to get to the 2025 edition of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, we put together an analysis of the AI server and storage spending forecasts put out by the good folks at IDC. …
Intel is hosting its Vision 2025 annual event in Las Vegas this week, what we old hands used to call Intel Developer Forum back in the days when the chip maker was taking over more and more of the datacenter and had give the world a relatively inexpensive and uniform substrate on which to build hyperscale infrastructure. …
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