Perhaps the most interesting conversation that has happened so far in the White House in 2025, at least from the point of view of the IT sector, is when Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, put on his Sunday best suit and visited President Donald Trump to presumably talk about technology, AI, trade, and war on July 10. …
“No.”
That’s probably a word that Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, doesn’t hear a lot. …
As far as we can tell, the export controls on crippled GPU compute engines announced by the US Department of Commerce back in April have had a disproportionately hard impact on AMD compared to Nvidia, as far as we can tell. …
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. …
All presidents of these United States have the bully pulpit from which to lecture the American people and, for the past century, the rest of the world about how the global economy and culture should work. …
It is not hard to figure out who is in the catbird seat in the semiconductor foundry business. …
With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the European Union also having done the same, let’s play the “What if?” …
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
Pat Gelsinger, current chief executive officer at Intel and formerly the head of its Data Center Group as well as its chief technology officer, famously invented the tick-tock method of chip launches to bring some order and reason to the way the world’s largest chip maker – as it was in the mid-2000s – mitigated risk and spurred innovation in its products. …
We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. …
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