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

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, ...

Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. Many of these customers, who spend millions of dollars ...

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 ...

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 ...

Qualcomm had datacenter envy back when Intel ruled the bit barns of the world, and now it has it even worse now that Nvidia has shown how AI processing can utterly transform the finances of a chip ...

It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a processor design – what it used to call a “tock” ...

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 ...