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Stacking Up Google’s “Ironwood” TPU Pod To Other AI Supercomputers

April 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As part of the pre-briefings ahead of the Google Cloud Next 2025 conference last week and then during the keynote address, the top brass at Google kept comparing a pod of “Ironwood” TPU v7p systems to the “El Capitan” supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. …

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Nvidia Sacrifices Profits To Preserve Revenues In The US

April 16, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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Why Did Silver Lake Buy A Majority Stake In Intel’s Altera FPGA Business?

April 15, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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. …

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ABCI Evolves To Meet Japan’s Changing AI Needs

April 14, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Google Woos HPC Centers With Fast CPUs And Networks

April 13, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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With “Ironwood” TPU, Google Pushes The AI Accelerator To The Floor

April 9, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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Dell Tackles AI Infrastructure With Disaggregated Servers And Storage

April 8, 2025 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

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A Deep Dive Into Datacenter And Server Spending Forecasts

April 7, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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Parasail Brokers Between AI Compute Demand And Supply

April 3, 2025 Jeffrey Burt 1

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. …

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A Second Opinion On Future GenAI Spending

April 2, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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