If you want to get a sense of what companies are really doing with AI infrastructure, and the issues of processing and network capacity, power, and cooling that they are facing, what you need to do is talk to some co-location datacenter providers. And so, we are going to do …
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UPDATED Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. And with the ISC 2023 supercomputing conference coming up in a few weeks, and Bronis de …
The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. The company that a decade ago put its money down on AI to be its growth engine has in the intervening years been pulling together the bits and pieces of hardware and …
Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to the future of business and the future of their own jobs and ours. Our colleague, Dylan Patel, of SemiAnalysis, got his hands on …
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When it comes to an economy, you get what we collectively expect. And given all of the talk and weird things that have happened in the early part of 2023, it is no surprise that companies are a bit leery about overinvesting in systems right now. And so even AMD, …
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Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore …
For Arista Networks, the poster-child of hyperscaler and cloud build networking that, more than any other vendor, has championed merchant silicon and Linux as the basis of a modular network operating system, 2022 was a bumper crop year. This year, there are many new things going on, but the compares …
In the absence of hard numbers, we have never been shy about making estimates because educated guesses is all you sometimes have to make a decision or to derive some kind of insight. So when we got a call last week from someone asking us how big are Nvidia’s server …
While not perfectly elastic in the economic sense, where there is a linear relationship between price and volume, we have always contended that the relationship between the price of IT infrastructure and its cost are reasonably elastic. Amazon Web Services has spent the past decade and a half testing this …
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. You can’t polish it, and you can’t roll it in glitter. But Intel …
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. Which is why we are seeing switch architectures evolving to drive specific kinds of AI workloads, just as we saw happen with HPC simulation and modeling workloads over the past …
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. We have …
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other …
Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. Sometimes, this personal recession involves a decline in revenues and it always has to do with a decline in silicon wafer etching starts (as measured in 12-inch wafer start equivalents) on a year on year basis. Sometimes, …
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