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. Almost an afterthought. As the early commercializers …
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. GenAI also it has some serious bottlenecks when it comes to memory bandwidth and memory capacity, and these bottlenecks could …
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. But that does not necessarily mean that these Arm CPUs are the best choice for cloud customers, according to AMD, …
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. They also can collaborate with each other to …
Both the global economy and spending on information technology are so vast that it is hard to really grasp the numbers sometimes. But we need to get a handle on those numbers to see where the organizations we all work for in the IT sector stand in relation to the …
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 delivered a 2 nanometer process out of its fabs. In any event, 18A might …
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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. It helps to have other businesses to fund a cloud, which is why Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are as big as they are …
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. While the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC supercomputer centers of the world are doing a lot of large-scale …
While the hyperscalers and clouds and their AI model builder customers are setting the pace in compute, networking, and storage during the GenAI revolution, that does not mean that they will necessarily provide the only systems that will be used by the largest enterprises in the world. In many cases, …
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. Today’s enterprise demands flexible, well-governed environments that support both operational and analytical workloads. That makes AI an integral part of all business strategies. …
Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear in the next few years. We have written about the significant steps that have been made by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon in error correction for their quantum chips, and there have been …
Here at The Next Platform, the quarterly earnings season starts with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. And that is fitting given the utter dependence that the world has on the chip manufacturing and packaging processes that this company sells at a profitability that not only allows it to invest prodigiously in …
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 of the InfiniBand effort found a second life at the turn of the millennium as a high performance, low latency interconnect for supercomputers running simulations …
If you need a big, badass box that can support tens of terabytes of memory, dozens of PCI-Express peripheral slots, thousands of directly attached storage devices, all feeding into hundreds of cores that can span that memory footprint with lots of bandwidth, you do not have a lot of options. …
Perhaps the most interesting conversation that has happened so far in the White House in 2025, at least from the point of view of the IT sector, is when Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, put on his Sunday best suit and visited President Donald Trump to presumably …
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