Compute
Nvidia Does Not Need China, But It Craves It And That Is Risky
“No.”
That’s probably a word that Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, doesn’t hear a lot. …
China
AI
China Export Controls Whack AMD Datacenter GPU Business
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. …
AI
Nvidia Sacrifices Profits To Preserve Revenues In The US
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. …
Compute
Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing
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. …
Compute
TSMC Can’t Be Caught Or Bought, Only Sought Or Stolen
It is not hard to figure out who is in the catbird seat in the semiconductor foundry business. …
AI
In GPU We Antitrust
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?” …
HPC
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
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. …
Compute
Intel: I Was Lostry, But Now I Am Foundry
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. …
HPC
The Mystery Of Tianhe-3, The World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Solved?
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. …
Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …