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Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further

Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …

Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking

If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …

IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long

Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. …

The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails

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 problems down the road. …

Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips

Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …

Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage

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. …

The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business

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. …

The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched

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. …

Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses?

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. …

Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023

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. …

After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC

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 VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety. …

The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AMD Says AI Is The Number One Priority Right Now

When it comes to an economy, you get what we collectively expect. …

AMD Says AI Is The Number One Priority Right Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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How HPC and Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances Are Accelerating Engineering Innovation

Sponsored Feature: The transformative power of modern engineering is nothing short of extraordinary. …

How HPC and Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances Are Accelerating Engineering Innovation was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.