Compute
“Polaris” AmpereOne M Arm CPUs Sighted In Oracle A4 Instances
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced a $6.5 billion acquisition of Arm server CPU upstart Ampere Computing back in March, and that deal has not yet closed. …
Oracle
AI
Ellison: Oracle Is Leveraging All Of Its Advantages To Build A Different Cloud
For years, Oracle has found itself solidly in the second tier of cloud providers, well behind the top three of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which combined account for more than 60 percent of global cloud infrastructure services market. …
Compute
Oracle First In Line For AMD “Altair” MI450 GPUs, “Helios” Racks
It is Oracle OpenWorld CloudWorld AI World this week, so we expect a lot of AI infrastructure announcements from Big Red, with AI being the biggest new workload to hit the enterprise in decades. …
AI
Get Your Money For Nothing, Chips Definitely Not For Free
What’s the difference between Meta Platforms and OpenAI? The big one – and perhaps the most important one in the long run – is that when Meta Platforms does a deal with neocloud CoreWeave, it actually has a revenue stream from its advertising on various Web properties that it can pump back into AI investments while OpenAI is still burning money much faster than it is making it. …
AI
Oracle Cloud Can Be As Big As AWS This Decade
Wouldn’t it be funny if Larry Ellison, who has become the elder statesman of the datacenter, had the last laugh on the cloud builders and model builders by beating them at their own game? …
Cloud
Only The Biggest Neoclouds Will Survive
There are definitely easier businesses to be in than operating a neocloud. …
AI
Why Did SoftBank Just Buy Ampere Computing?
The world is getting stranger, isn’t it? We understand, given the difficulties of selling Arm server chips to hyperscalers and cloud builders that are also designing and manufacturing their own Arm CPUs, why Ampere Computing, the only successful freestanding Arm server CPU supplier to even get its chips into its chosen tech titan customers, would want to be acquired by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
AI
Oracle Has Some Big Advantages To Mainstream AI
Oracle’s cloud may be been in the running to be the host of a massive AI training system for Elon Musk’s xAI startup, with a purported $10 billion in rentals at stake. …
AI
What A Tangled OpenAI Web We CoreWeave
Wouldn’t it be funny if all of that money that Microsoft spent last year paying neocloud upstart CoreWeave was just to support ever-embiggening AI training workloads at OpenAI as it makes its GPT models smarter? …
AI
OpenAI Declares Its Hardware Independence (Sort Of) With Stargate Project
The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating to watch. …