Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing
All presidents of these United States have the bully pulpit from which to lecture the American people and, for the past century, the rest of the world about how the global economy and culture should work. …
Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Anthropic Raises 285 Million GPU-Hours Equivalent In Series E Funding
Rather than measure the funding rounds and valuations of AI startups building foundation models in US dollars, perhaps we should just convert that right into GPU-hours rented to train models, since this accounts for the vast majority of spending that OpenAI, Anthropic, and a handful of others do in their day to day operations. …
Anthropic Raises 285 Million GPU-Hours Equivalent In Series E Funding was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Only Thing Worse Than Selling AI Servers Is Not Selling Them
For as long as we can remember, the high performance computing business was one where it has been difficult for the manufacturers that build systems to make a buck. …
The Only Thing Worse Than Selling AI Servers Is Not Selling Them was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable
In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. …
AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Blackwell Is The Fastest Ramping Compute Engine In Nvidia’s History
With the months-long blip in manufacturing that delayed the “Blackwell” B100 and B200 generations of GPUs in the rear view mirror and nerves more calm about the potential threat that the techniques used in the AI models of Chinese startup DeepSeek better understood, Nvidia’s final quarter of its fiscal 2025 and its projections for continuing sequential growth in fiscal 2026 will bring joy to Wall Street. …
Blackwell Is The Fastest Ramping Compute Engine In Nvidia’s History was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field
With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field. …
Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking
UPDATED Networking giant Cisco Systems and AI platform provider Nvidia have 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.
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.
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.
