There have been rumors that either Arm Ltd or parent company and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would buy British AI chip and system upstart – it is no longer a startup if it is eight years old – Graphcore for quite some time. And yesterday the scuttlebutt was confirmed as Masayoshi …
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan is going to be installing the third generation of its AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer. The machine will consist of thousands of Nvidia’s current “Hopper” H200 generation of GPU accelerators, which is not surprising. But interestingly, it …
You can build a software ecosystem if you have time. But sometimes, you want to speed things up, and then you have to pay to build that ecosystem out. And that is precisely what AMD has been doing for the past year, and what we expect the company to do …
UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. Below is a corrected story and set of data. The decades of Moore’s Law …
When you have to compile the revenue streams of thousands of major IT hardware, software, and services suppliers into the datacenter, it takes a bit of time to get that data, get it right, and then aggregate it for a datacenter market analysis. Which is why, here at the beginning …
If you don’t like gut-wrenching, hair-raising, white-knuckling boom bust cycles, then do not go into the memory business. There is a reason that Intel was driven out of it back in the 1980s, and once again in recent years as it exited the 3D XPoint ReRAM flash-ish memory business. The …
UPDATED: Nvidia is a member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. But one of the ideas that a lot of …
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Partner Content: AI used to feel like a far off possibility – a complex, expensive technology belonging to tech billionaires and giant corporations. But today, the genie is out of the bottle. According to Quocirca’s AI trends study 2024, 70 percent of respondents across the UK, France, Germany, and the …
There has always been a tension in the datacenter between ever-advancing technology and the practical economic gravity of the company balance sheet. All things being equal, some IT decision makers would be happy for servers to be used until they fail in the field, extending their useful life well beyond …
Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. In many ways, Europe behaves more like a nation than not, and this is …
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. Regulators around the world worried about the effect the deal would have on the IT industry and Broadcom had to make some promises – such as to the European Union, which demanded concessions from the semiconductor giant …
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. Norrod ran the custom server business at Dell for many years after working on X86 processors at Cyrix and being …
A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. But the question is will any of that water be potable – by which we mean profitable. Thus far, depending on how cynical you …
SPONSORED POST: Now in its seventh year, the 2024 AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit will be held at the Signia by Hilton hotel in San Jose, CA between the 9th and 12th of September. The summit is a goldmine of useful information for data scientists, machine learning engineers, AI …
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. This week, it is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is trying to play both sides of the GPU market, …
Murray Thom, vice president for quantum technology evangelism for D-Wave, knows that his company for more than two decades has played a key role in a somewhat unusual industry. “One of the things often mentioned is that the quantum computing industry is in this really strange circumstance where you have …
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