The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 …
Chip maker and enterprise software player Broadcom announced its financial results for the final quarter of its fiscal 2024 today, which ended on November third, and all we kept thinking about as chief executive officer Hock Tan went over the numbers was the question in the title above. We have …
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. The pace of innovation and the amount of investment are both breathtaking. In the two short years since OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, there has been a sprint from prompt-and-respond with pre-trained large language models to …
Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. It is no secret that …
Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. And thanks to the flood of money being spent on AI training and inference systems, which is an …
With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the European Union also having done the same, let’s play the “What if?” game for a just a moment. These “What ifs” are based on the …
There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. A global market is growing around quantum computing, with billions of dollars being …
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This probably happens more than we know, but sometimes OEMs and ODMs walk away from big deals because something is fishy. And that happened to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, a period that ended on October 31, as it “de-booked a large order” for $700 …
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It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. No one knows these facts better than Marvell Technology, who along with rival chip maker Broadcom, is seeking to benefit from the bevy of custom …
When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to resurgence, it was Intel that controlled the cadence of new compute engine introductions into the datacenter. Given this week, which started off with …
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We did not think that today we would be writing about Pat Gelsinger “retiring” from the company that he loves best and most. Intel’s prodigal and now former chief executive officer was one of the few executives in the semiconductor industry who was trained by the company’s co-founders Gordon Moore, …
Current US president Joe Biden and once and future president Donald Trump do not agree on much. But they absolutely agree that advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques as well as chips made with those processes to host HPC and AI applications should not be easily accessible to the military in the …
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