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Silicon One G200 Finally Drives Cisco’s AI Networking Business
Everybody has been waiting to see the AI spike at Cisco Systems, and it just happened in its most current quarter. …
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Future Proofing Inference Servers With PCI-Express Switches
At this point in the history of datacenter systems, there can be no higher praise than to be chosen by Nvidia as a component supplier for its AI systems. …
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Upstart Xsight Labs Raises Up The Programmable Switch Banner High
The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. …
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Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field
With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field. …
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Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking
UPDATED Networking giant Cisco Systems and AI platform provider Nvidia have hammered out a deal to mix and match each other’s technologies to create a broader set of AI networking options for their respective and – importantly, prospective – customers. …
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Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption
While the hyperscalers and big cloud builders all are racing as fast as they can to build the biggest – and presumably the best – models, or collections of models, to win the AI race and become the Microsoft or Red Hat of commercial-grade models, the acquisition of AI hardware and envelope pushing on AI model architecture is not indicative of the adoption of AI by enterprises. …
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Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU
There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …
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Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift
The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …
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The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End
For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …
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System Spending Forecast Goes Through The Datacenter Roof
The third quarter earnings season starts this week for the hyperscaler and cloud giants, and it is fortuitous that the economists and IT analysts at Gartner have updated their forecast for IT spending for 2024 and added an jaw-dropping forecast for 2025 and hinted at a brave new world of massive datacenter spending out to 2028. …