The number of AI inference chip startups in the world is gross – literally gross, as in a dozen dozens. But there is only one ...

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 ...

Since the advent of distributed computing, there has been a tension between the tight coherency of memory and its compute within a node – the base level of a unit of compute – and the looser coherency ...

While a lot of people focus on the floating point and integer processing architectures of various kinds of compute engines, we are spending more and more of our time looking at memory hierarchies and ...

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 ...

Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company had already been working on its ...

There are two types of packaging that represent the future of computing, and both will have validity in certain domains: Wafer scale integration and multichip module packaging. While we love the idea ...

When it comes to networking, the rules around here at The Next Platform are simple. When it comes to hyperscale networking for massively distributed, largely not coherent applications, the rule is: ...

The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. Japan has been an innovator in datacenter computing for the past six decades, ...

It has been becoming increasingly clear – anecdotally at least – just how expensive it is to train large language models and recommender systems, which are arguably the two most important workloads ...

What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? It is the GPU accelerator, correct. So let’s ask this question another way: What is the most ...

Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. We finally have the first benchmarks from MLCommons, the ...