If there is one thing that is absolutely immune from inflationary curbs and that is, to a certain degree, also contributing to inflationary pressures in the global economy, it is generative AI. …
There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today. …
Based on what Intel has been saying for the past several weeks in various events, but especially the Hot Chips 2023 a few weeks ago and the more recent Intel Innovation 2023 extravaganza, the company’s foundry process roadmap and its server processor roadmaps are going to align harmoniously to make the Xeon SP family of CPUs more competitive next year. …
We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …
It takes too long to get a new compute engine in the field, and everybody complains about it. …
Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …
Only a few years ago, motherboard and system maker Supermicro set a target of breaking through $10 billion in sales, and thanks to the explosion in systems for training and inference for AI applications, it looks like the company is going to bust through that goal in its fiscal 2025 ending next June. …
With a server recession underway and its latest Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators still ramping, this was a predictably soft, but still not terrible in the scheme of things, quarter for AMD. …
Here’s a fun question and don’t cheat by asking ChatGPT. What is more valuable, an ounce of gold or an ounce of an Nvidia “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator? …
The expanded lineup of AMD’s 4th generation “Genoa” Epyc server chips – built atop “Zen 4” core and some with the chip maker’s L3-boosting 3D V-Cache – unveiled at a high-profile event in San Francisco this week is quickly making its way into the cloud. …
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