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Google’s Open Lakehouse: The Foundation For Enterprise AI Data

Businesses have always relied on data, but they never were able to get full value out of them when they were siloed by structure, system, or storage. …

Google’s Open Lakehouse: The Foundation For Enterprise AI Data was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Financial Services Firms Will Bank On Homegrown AI Training

Every company in every industry in every geography on Earth is trying to figure out how they are going to train AI models and tune them to help with their particular workloads. …

Financial Services Firms Will Bank On Homegrown AI Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Intel Puts The Process Horse Back In Front Of The Foundry Cart

It is beginning to look like Intel plans to milk the impending 18A manufacturing process for a long time. …

Intel Puts The Process Horse Back In Front Of The Foundry Cart was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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How To Cash In On Massive Datacenter Spending

Both the global economy and spending on information technology are so vast that it is hard to really grasp the numbers sometimes. …

How To Cash In On Massive Datacenter Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AMD EPYC Is A More Universal Hybrid Cloud Substrate Than Arm

SPONSORED FEATURE  The hyperscalers and big cloud builders have their own technical and political reasons for designing proprietary Arm server chips and having them built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …

AMD EPYC Is A More Universal Hybrid Cloud Substrate Than Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Skimpy HBM Memory Opens Up The Way For AI Inference Memory Godbox

Generative AI is arguably the most complex application that humankind has ever created, and the math behind it is incredibly complex even if the results are simple enough to understand. …

Skimpy HBM Memory Opens Up The Way For AI Inference Memory Godbox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Cisco’s Outshift Incubator Sends Agentic AI Protocol To The Linux Foundation

AI agents bring with them the promise of being able to autonomously solve complex tasks put before them, from finding and analyzing the necessary data, choosing tools, and making decisions without human intervention to learning from their mistakes and adapting to changes. …

Cisco’s Outshift Incubator Sends Agentic AI Protocol To The Linux Foundation was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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For Financial Services Firms, AI Inference Is As Challenging As Training

A decade ago, when traditional machine learning techniques were first being commercialized, training was incredibly hard and expensive, but because models were relatively small, inference – running new data through a model to cause an application to act or react – was easy. …

For Financial Services Firms, AI Inference Is As Challenging As Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AI Embiggens The Big Clouds, Especially Microsoft

Building a successful cloud and growing it quarter after quarter, year after year, with first mover status or without it, is not an easy task. …

AI Embiggens The Big Clouds, Especially Microsoft was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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IBM Outlines Steps To Verify Claims Of Quantum Advantage

D-Wave executives stirred up some controversy earlier this year when they claimed a smaller version of its Advantage 2 annealing quantum system, armed with 1,200 qubits, had reached “quantum supremacy,” – or “quantum advantage” – that significant but ill-defined time when a quantum system is able to solve a problem in much less time, at a lower cost, or more efficiently than the most powerful classical supercomputer. …

IBM Outlines Steps To Verify Claims Of Quantum Advantage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Oracle Cloud Launches Database Service for Agentic AI, Analytics Workloads

A decade and a half of enterprise cloud adoption has spread vast amounts of data and processing around the globe, and the onslaught of generative AI – and now agentic AI – is only accelerating it. …

Oracle Cloud Launches Database Service for Agentic AI, Analytics Workloads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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UCI-Express Cranks Up Chiplet Interconnect Speeds

With cloud computing, HPC, and now AI driving enterprise computing and the technical challenges and cost connected to semiconductor design and manufacturing increasing, demand for chiplet architectures continues to increase. …

UCI-Express Cranks Up Chiplet Interconnect Speeds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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AMD Rides The HPC Tiger In The Datacenter

Being in the high performance computing business, as AMD most definitely is, has its ups and downs. …

AMD Rides The HPC Tiger In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Big AI Wave Will Lift Arista To $10 Billion Two Years Early

Jayshree Ullal, the chief executive officer of Arista Networks, has been pointing at the $10 billion revenue upper decks since the beginning of the AI boom, but is understandably hesitant about saying when the company would cross that threshold. …

Big AI Wave Will Lift Arista To $10 Billion Two Years Early was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Broadcom Stretches Switching Across Datacenters With Jericho 4

Speaking metaphorically, the blast area of a datacenter should only be so large, for mechanical as well as technical reasons, in order to mitigate the risk of a failure taking out too many machines. …

Broadcom Stretches Switching Across Datacenters With Jericho 4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.