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

If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons' paradox, it's the supercomputing sector. According to this law of economics, ...

A total addressable market is a forecast of what will be sold – more precisely, what can be manufactured and sold. It is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. But one of them is that it has so much money on hand right now, and such a lead ...

The most exciting thing about the Top500 rankings of supercomputers that come out each June and November is not who is on the top of the list. That’s fun and interesting, of course, but the real thing ...

In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. AMD has been burned by some architectural choices it has made with Opteron processors in the past, where assumptions about how ...

If you want to study how datacenter design has changed over the past two decades, a good place to visit is Quincy, Washington. There are five different datacenter operators in this small farming ...

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 ...