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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. …

For Now, AI Helps IBM’s Bottom Line More Than Its Top Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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.

Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear in the next few years. …

Bell Labs Takes A Topological Approach To Quantum 2.0 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Here at The Next Platform, the quarterly earnings season starts with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …

How Long Before Half Of TSMC’s Sales Are Driven By AI? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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 and models. …

Broadcom Tries To Kill InfiniBand And NVSwitch With One Ethernet Stone was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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. …

The World’s Most Powerful Server Embiggens A Bit With Power11 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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 talk about technology, AI, trade, and war on July 10. …

The Art Of The GPU Deal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Every major economy that is not the United States or China, which has a disproportionate share of HPC national labs as well as hyperscaler and cloud builder tech titans, wants AI sovereignty a whole lot more than they ever worried about HPC simulation and modeling. …

Brazil Lays The Hardware Foundation For Its AI Ambitions was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and its “Blackwell” B200 GPUs in what is called a GB200 NVL72 shared GPU memory configuration. …

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.