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Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro

Nvidia may be shipping its “Blackwell” B100, B200, and GB200 compute engines, but not in enough volumes for server maker Supermicro to meet its revenue expectations in the quarter ended in December. …

Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge

Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …

HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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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. …

Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision

PARTNER CONTENT: As the technology industry continues its shift towards AI dominance, an important schism is opening up that threatens to impact scientific progress, along with important humanitarian endeavors such as disaster response. …

The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer

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. …

German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two?

People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …

Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026

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 sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …

Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Better AI Might Depend On The Data Infrastructure Getting Better First

SPONSORED FEATURE: When it comes to artificial intelligence, it seems nothing succeeds like excess. …

Better AI Might Depend On The Data Infrastructure Getting Better First was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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With Majorana, Microsoft Says Quantum Is Years, Not Decades, Away

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. …

With Majorana, Microsoft Says Quantum Is Years, Not Decades, Away was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Sizing Up Compute Engines For HPC Work At 64-Bit Precision

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. …

Sizing Up Compute Engines For HPC Work At 64-Bit Precision was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams

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. …

Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Intel Rounds Out “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 With A Slew Of Chips

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. …

Intel Rounds Out “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 With A Slew Of Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Compute Engine Strategies In The Age Of GenAI

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. …

Compute Engine Strategies In The Age Of GenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking

Late into the night on Monday, the product, legal, and public relations teams at networking giant Cisco Systems and AI platform provider Nvidia, 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. …

Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.