It is beginning to look like Intel plans to milk the impending 18A manufacturing process for a long time. The 18A process is akin to a refined 2 nanometer process, which is funny because Intel never ...

The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them often do. The Ultra Ethernet Consortium was formed in July 2023 to take on ...

If you want to take on Nvidia on its home turf of AI processing, then you had better bring more than your A game. You better bring your A++ game, several vaults of money, and a few bags of good luck.

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

There is no question that China can easily consume millions of Ascend 910C accelerators. But can SMIC make them, and at what price? If not, for many customers, an Nvidia H20 or a B20, or even an L20, ...

A PHY is a physical network transport device that links a switch chip, a network inferface, or any number of other kinds of interfaces on or within a compute engine to the physical media – copper ...

The Graviton family of Arm-based CPUs, which were designed by the Annapurna Labs division of the cloud juggernaut, have been gradually embiggening and are able to take on much bigger jobs with the ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, it put out a five year roadmap, and it largely stuck to it. When GPU-accelerated computing took off in 2010 and the GPU Technical Conference was new and the number ...

The Ironwood TPU is by far the biggest and baddest AI compute engine that Google has ever created, and it is also put in to the most expansive “hypercomputer” cluster configurations that Google has ...

We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. But that is what the ...

InfiniBand was always supposed to be a mainstream fabric to be used across PCs, servers, storage, and networks, but the effort collapsed and the remains ...

While the hyperscalers and clouds and their AI model builder customers are setting the pace in compute, networking, and storage during the GenAI ...