Did people complain – and by people, we mean Wall Street – as the world’s largest bookseller invested huge amounts of money to transform itself into an alternative to driving to Wal-Mart? …
If all goes according to the high end of plan, then AMD should kiss $10 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter of this year, and if it was low-balling that number a little, then it should break through $10 billion and put the wrap on a $34.3 billion year that was its best year ever and its most profitable one in terms of absolute dollars and one of its better ones for net income as a share of revenue. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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? …
There are definitely easier businesses to be in than operating a neocloud. …
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. …
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. …
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