All presidents of these United States have the bully pulpit from which to lecture the American people and, for the past century, the rest of the world about how the global economy and culture should work. Donald Trump has certainly used this pulpit in his first and now second terms …
Rather than measure the funding rounds and valuations of AI startups building foundation models in US dollars, perhaps we should just convert that right into GPU-hours rented to train models, since this accounts for the vast majority of spending that OpenAI, Anthropic, and a handful of others do in their …
For as long as we can remember, the high performance computing business was one where it has been difficult for the manufacturers that build systems to make a buck. With the advent of GenAI and booming sales of AI servers to run training and often inference workloads, none of this …
In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.” The same could be said qubits. They are …
With the months-long blip in manufacturing that delayed the “Blackwell” B100 and B200 generations of GPUs in the rear view mirror and nerves more calm about the potential threat that the techniques used in the AI models of Chinese startup DeepSeek better understood, Nvidia’s final quarter of its fiscal 2025 …
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 …
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. Nvidia has been a competitor of Cisco’s in the datacenter …
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SPONSORED FEATURE While generative AI and GPU acceleration of AI training and inference have taken the world by storm, the datacenters of the world still have to think about CPUs – and think very carefully about them at that. For one thing, at most companies, there are hundreds to thousands …
It is no secret that chip maker Intel is having a tough time these days on a number of fronts, but it is important to remember that nearly two out of every three processors sold into the datacenter are Intel Inside. This is a good business that can be moderately …
If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you are creating Universal Storage, then by definition it has to do everything – meaning support every kind of data format and access protocol, and do so with good performance on all fronts. And that has been the …
If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. This seems like a long time to wait, which is why so many HPC centers made the leap …
SPONSORED FEATURE: When it comes to artificial intelligence, it seems nothing succeeds like excess. As AI models become bigger and more capable, hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and enterprises are pouring cash into building out the storage and compute infrastructure needed to support them. The first half of 2024 saw AI …
As if you don’t have enough to do with the AI revolution, Microsoft says that 2025 is also the year that organizations need to begin getting ready for quantum computing. Mitra Azizirad, president and chief operating officer of strategic missions and technologies for the IT and AI giant, wrote that …
In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports …
People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. Weird deal after weird deal keeps coming out of the rumor mill, and now we have rumors that rival chip designer and seller Broadcom and rival chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co want to cleave Intel …
The quantum computing space is replete with big-name companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel touting incremental but important steps they’re taking to bring the long-promised technology to the fore. Most recently, Google in December announced that, with the introduction of “Willow” chip, its scientists in its Quantum Lab …
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