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Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI

September 26, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. …

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Supply Chain Easing Creates Ethernet Switching Boom

September 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

There are a lot of things going on in the datacenter and campus interconnect markets, but one of the weirder things we observe from the most recent market data coming out of IDC about the Ethernet portion of this market is that it is like a country music record being played backwards. …

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PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks

July 7, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and PCI-Express controllers and switches. …

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Ethernet Switching Still Booming As Routing Soldiers On

June 21, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north of half of server sales worldwide – then the Ethernet fabric, consisting of switches and routers, is the backplane of that computer. …

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Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips

April 26, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …

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A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4

March 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

With each passing year, the phrase “The network is the computer,” coined in 1984 by John Gage, director of research and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, becomes more and more true. …

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Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It

December 8, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If there is a recession underway – and we are not convinced that there is even a little bit – then the Ethernet switch market did not get the memo. …

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Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market

November 22, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is tough to get excited about mature markets that grow at a steady rate unless it happens to be the most profitable part of the market. …

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After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System

October 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …

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Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet

September 13, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …

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