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Tech companies form the "Ultra Accelerator Link" group to create an open connectivity standard for AI accelerators
Trying to escape Nvidia's monopoly on server GPUs and related technologies
Infineon is cooking up 12 kW power supplies for energy-hungry AI data centers
Next-generation PSUs with improved efficiency and power delivery
Magnetic tape shipments reached a record 152.9 exabytes in 2023
Magnetic technology is so dead, it's setting new records in global storage capabilities
The buckets of AI and where Nvidia is crushing it
AI as Magic (AGI), AI as a Feature, and AI as a Product
AMD: Increasing compute efficiency by 30x is nice, but what about 100x?
CEO Lisa Su says the company is on course to dramatically improve data center compute efficiency
Nvidia reports record revenue amid global AI boom, up 262% year-over-year
Team Green expects the good times to continue
Google is now the world's third-largest data center processor designer
Custom TPUs have driven past growth, and will accelerate the future as well
AWS plans major European expansion with €7.8 billion investment in sovereign data center
The data centers will let customers keep all their metadata within the EU
Unbuilt data centers in high demand as firms secure space years in advance
Shortfall looms as construction fails to meet surging demand
Why is Apple making a data center chip?
"ACDC" (Apple Chips in Data Center) would be the clear winner in 2024's chip naming competition
Editor's take: Of course, Apple is designing its own AI chips for its data centers. This will give them an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge AI system that its competitors will not be able to match anytime soon.
Acoustic attacks could be a serious threat to the future of underwater data centers
Oceans can be loud places
Bending metal: The changing server business
OEMs, ODMs, chipmakers, hyperscalers and the cloud
10 Things We Hate About Nvidia
Nvidia has immense momentum, but its position can still be challenged
AI data centers could soon become a scourge for the energy industry
WTF?! Arm's CEO has sounded a warning bell about the energy requirements needed to advance AI algorithms. He cautions that in a few years, "AI data centers" could require so much electricity that it could jeopardize the US power grid.
Intel unveils its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator: 128GB HBM2e memory, set to rival Nvidia H100 and AMD MI300
Intel expects it to beat Hopper in at least some critical LLM parameters
How will AI reshape the data center?
Why it matters: The rise of AI compute is poised to reshape the economics of the data center. That may be as simple as Nvidia displacing Intel, but it could also lead to much wider, systematic change.
Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a massive $100 billion AI supercomputer dubbed "Stargate"
The two tech giants continue to cozy up
Broadcom showcases huge XPU AI accelerator for mystery client
A network-centric platform designed to scale at the lowest power
Ultra Ethernet gains momentum as tech giants join for AI and HPC network innovation
Newcomers to the group include IBM, Nokia, Dell, Baidu, Huawei, Lenovo, Supermicro, and Tencent
Google is spending $1 billion on a new data center in Kansas City
A significant technology investment with hundreds of new job opportunities
Microsoft Z1000 SSD engineering sample highlights enterprise collaboration with CNEX Labs
Custom hardware likely used in Microsoft's own data centers
Goodbye to Graphics: How GPUs Came to Dominate Compute and AI
Gone are the days when the sole function for a graphics chip were, graphics. Let's explore how the GPU evolved from a modest pixel pusher into a blazing powerhouse of floating-point computation.
Nvidia reports massive revenue spike amid global AI boom
Graphics cards prices will likely remain sky-high in the near term