AI
Dell Says It Can Finally Make Some Big Money On GenAI
It is one thing for the market researchers of the world to make prognostications about hardware, software, and services spending relating to the GenAI boom. …
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Compute
Dell Sets Up For A Killer Spike In AI Server Sales
Back in February, Dell, the world’s largest server maker, told Wall Street that it was planning on selling and delivering $15 billion in AI servers in its fiscal 2026, when will end in early November. …
AI
The Only Thing Worse Than Selling AI Servers Is Not Selling Them
For as long as we can remember, the high performance computing business was one where it has been difficult for the manufacturers that build systems to make a buck. …
Compute
GenAI Boom: Datacenter Spending Forecast Raised Again
Economic and technical forces have a kind of momentum that keeps them growing even as any new technology goes through its inevitable hype cycle from innovation to inflated expectations to disillusionment to deployment into productivity. …
AI
System Spending Forecast Goes Through The Datacenter Roof
The third quarter earnings season starts this week for the hyperscaler and cloud giants, and it is fortuitous that the economists and IT analysts at Gartner have updated their forecast for IT spending for 2024 and added an jaw-dropping forecast for 2025 and hinted at a brave new world of massive datacenter spending out to 2028. …
Compute
Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes
Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …
AI
Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be
We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. …
Compute
Supermicro Financials Get Better As The Company Gets Bigger
It’s still Ketchup Week here at The Next Platform, and we are going to be circling back to look at the financials of a number of bellwether datacenter companies that we could not get to during a number of medical crisis – including but not limited to our family catching COVID when we took a week of vacation at a lake in Michigan. …
AI
Why AMD Spent $4.9 Billion To Buy ZT Systems
If AMD is willing and eager to spend $4.9 billion to buy a systems company – that is more than its entire expected haul for sales of datacenter GPUs for 2024 – then you have to figure that acquisition is pretty important. …
AI
Ongoing Saga: How Much Money Will Be Spent On AI Chips?
Everybody knows that companies, particularly hyperscalers and cloud builders but now increasingly enterprises hoping to leverage generative AI, are spending giant round bales of money on AI accelerators and related chips to create AI training and inference clusters. …