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Chip Capacity Constraints Put A Governor On AI Spending Growth

This is certainly borne out by the latest forecast put together by the market researchers at Gartner. The company’s latest ...
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Enhanced Performance For Server Consolidation With Intel Xeon 6+

New in Intel Xeon 6+: The shift to Intel's 18A manufacturing process doubles the core count and delivers a five-fold increase ...
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Nvidia Extends Its Grip On The AI Datacenter Outwards

Nvidia wants the modern AI datacenter to be more like an Apple product, and with announcements it just made at the Computex ...
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Uncle Sam Awards $2 Billion-Plus To Quantum Companies, But Wants A Cut

Governments have long taken an interest in quantum computing as part of the larger picture of high-end computing that over ...
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Dell Makes The Profits Up In Volume For Booming AI Servers

The last time that Dell had a blowout quarter like the one that it has turned in was probably back when Michael Dell was selling custom PCs from his dorm room at the University of Texas. More than ...
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Cisco Preps For A World Of AI Agent Coworkers, Frontier Model Threats

Last month, we did a deep dive into Cisco Systems’ third quarter fiscal 2026 numbers to get a gauge on what the AI market looks like when you strip away what the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and AI ...
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GPUs And RAM Are In Short Supply, But The Real Bottleneck For AI Is Electricians

But to get a handle on the scale of resources that AI and HPC are sucking in out of the global economy, just consider what is ...
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Oak Ridge Starts Weaving Together A Quantum, Classical HPC, And AI System Stack

It is common understanding that as quantum computing gets its feet under itself, it will work hand-in-hand with classical supercomputers and leverage what rapidly evolving AI tools can offer to begin ...
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Driving Down The AI System Roadmap With Nvidia

In the early years of the GPU acceleration of application performance – really from “Kepler” datacenter GPUs in May 2012 to “Volta” in May 2017 – Nvidia, the world’s most important technology company ...
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With TPU 8, Google Makes GenAI Systems Much Better, Not Just Bigger

Here is how you know that GenAI training and GenAI inference are very different computing and networking beasts, and diverging more with each passing day: Google has just forked its Tensor Processing ...
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How Nvidia Blackwell Systems Attack 1 Trillion Parameter AI Models

We like datacenter compute engines here at The Next Platform, but as the name implies, what we really like are platforms – how compute, storage, networking, and systems software are brought together ...
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Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor

The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have ...