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The Next PlatformSiliconMarvell Cuts To The Front Of The Datacenter Optics Line With Lumentum Deal For a long while, like several decades now, many of us have been waiting for silicon photonics to co ...

11.03

The Next PlatformSiliconQualcomm Has Eyes On The AI Inference Datacenter With HBC And AI250 Qualcomm executives this summer introduced an architecture called high-bandwidth computing (HBC), th ...

11.02

The Next PlatformSiliconAI Arms Race Puts Sovereign Supply Chains in the Spotlight During the Cold War, developing the atomic bomb was the first step toward building even more powerfu ...

10.30

The Next PlatformSiliconHow To Evaluate CPU Performance For Agentic AI A funny thing happened on the way from machine learning to chatbots to agentic AI: the central proce ...

10.29

The Next PlatformSiliconIntel’s $2.3 Billion Bet On A Quantum Future Is A Decade In The Making Intel’s struggles for much of the past decade have been well documented here and in other news sites ...

10.28

The Next PlatformSiliconNvidia Simulates Its Way Into Google's Magic State Cultivation Party There’s a lot of innovation happening in the quantum computing field as it moves closer to the promi ...

10.26

The Next PlatformSiliconCadence, Nvidia Unveil New AI Models To Put EDA On Autopilot Like a virus, generative AI has invaded nearly every facet of technology, including chip and system ...

10.26

The Next PlatformSiliconThree Physical Walls Are Hitting AI Datacenter Infrastructure At The Same Time - And The Compound Effects Are Worse Here is a trajectory that should focus the mind of anyone designing AI infrastructure right now. In ...

10.23

The Next PlatformSiliconHuang Shrugs Off Protestors To Kick Off GTC Berlin With DSX Pods, Robots GTC Jensen Huang kicked off GTC Europe by promising to cut the time to token at new datacenters fro ...

10.21

The Next PlatformSiliconJust How Rosy Is That Datacenter Buildout Forecast? No matter how much money anyone throws at it, the GenAI boom can only continue to grow as fast as da ...

10.16

The Next PlatformSiliconWhen Faster Supercomputers Aren’t Enough: A Million Reasons Why Advanced Computing Matters For Genomics PARTNER CONTENT:

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The Next PlatformSiliconCisco Turns Its Attention To The Control Layers Of Its Quantum Network Cisco Networks, through its Outshift R&D and incubator unit, has for several years been piecing ...

10.14

The Next PlatformSiliconMicrosoft’s “Clea” Maia 300 Inference XPU Is A Bandwidth Beast If everyone has an AI inference problem, with tokens still being too expensive to generate even with ...

10.13

The Next PlatformSiliconUpscale AI Partners With Nvidia While Competing With It Every CPU maker always had its own and very proprietary way to link multiple CPUs into shared memory ...

10.09

The Next PlatformSiliconMemory Is The Lynchpin Of The IT Industry, And Doubly So For AI For as long as most of us have been watching high-end commercial and technical computing, the comput ...

10.08

The Next PlatformSiliconGrowing Pains: How Distributed AI Training Changes The Network Between Datacenters SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.

10.08

The Next PlatformSiliconHPE Unveils The First Of The Next Generation of ProLiants for the AI Era It is impossible to miss the impact that the rapid adoption of AI continues to have on the datacente ...

10.08

The Next PlatformSiliconWhen One Datacenter Is No Longer Enough SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge

10.06

The Next PlatformSiliconDell Adds Data Context, Prep, And Storage Features To Its AI Data Platform Earlier this year, Dell published the results from a survey of 3,800 enterprise IT decision-makers a ...

10.06

The Next PlatformSiliconHow Google's Axion CPUs Benefit The Cloud PARTNER CONTENT Google is the first of the hyperscalers, and many would argue the most innovati ...

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