The annual Computex computer expo in Taiwan is one of the places that IT vendors like to trot out some of their new wares, and most of the time they have to do with consumer electronics or maybe PCs and smartphones, but every now and then, we get some insight into future datacenter chippery or gear. …
The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …
Et tu, Meta?
Of all of the world’s hyperscalers and large cloud builders, only Meta Platforms, dominated by its Facebook and related social network businesses like Instagram and WhatsApp, is a pure-play hyperscaler. …
James Clarke believes quantum computing won’t become practical until the industry is making chips crammed with upwards of a million error-corrected quantum bits. …
There is increasing competition coming at Nvidia in the AI training and inference market, and at the same time, researchers at Google, Cerebras, and SambaNova are showing off the benefits of porting sections of traditional HPC simulation and modeling code to their matrix math engines, and Intel is probably not far behind with its Habana Gaudi chips. …
In the next few months, Big Blue will launch its entry and midrange Power10 servers, and to be blunt, we are not sure what the HPC and AI angle is going to be for these systems. …
Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. …
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …
High performance systems have a long history of using water cooling, but advancements in semiconductor technology in the 1980s allowed for big iron to have a few decades of using air cooling. …
It is hard to imagine, but someday, IBM may not care much about its proprietary System z and Power Systems platforms. …
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