accelerator Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/accelerator/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:39:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg accelerator Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/accelerator/ 32 32 86113652 Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/#comments Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:02:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145278 There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence. …

Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/feed/ 2 145278 Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:39:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145091 It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. …

Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/feed/ 1 145091 The World Will Eat $2 Trillion In AI Servers, AI Will Eat The World Right Back https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/18/the-world-will-eat-2-trillion-in-ai-servers-ai-will-eat-the-world-right-back/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/18/the-world-will-eat-2-trillion-in-ai-servers-ai-will-eat-the-world-right-back/#comments Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:35:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144859 Every time Lisa Su, chief executive officer at AMD, announces a new Instinct GPU accelerator, the addressable market for AI acceleration in the datacenter seems to expand. …

The World Will Eat $2 Trillion In AI Servers, AI Will Eat The World Right Back was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/18/the-world-will-eat-2-trillion-in-ai-servers-ai-will-eat-the-world-right-back/feed/ 7 144859 Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/ampere-arm-server-cpus-to-get-512-cores-ai-accelerator/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/ampere-arm-server-cpus-to-get-512-cores-ai-accelerator/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:51:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144484 With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …

Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/ampere-arm-server-cpus-to-get-512-cores-ai-accelerator/feed/ 1 144484 Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/#comments Mon, 13 May 2024 15:55:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144137 If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines. …

Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/feed/ 3 144137 TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/19/tsmc-will-have-an-ai-business-bigger-than-all-of-intel-foundry/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/19/tsmc-will-have-an-ai-business-bigger-than-all-of-intel-foundry/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:22:11 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144013 Everyone is in a big hurry to get the latest and greatest GPU accelerators to build generative AI platforms. …

TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/19/tsmc-will-have-an-ai-business-bigger-than-all-of-intel-foundry/feed/ 3 144013 The Tidal Wave Of Rising GPU TAM Raises All Boats https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/07/the-tidal-wave-of-rising-gpu-tam-raises-all-boats/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/07/the-tidal-wave-of-rising-gpu-tam-raises-all-boats/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:36:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143374 The world has gone nuts for generative AI, and it is going to get a whole lot crazier. …

The Tidal Wave Of Rising GPU TAM Raises All Boats was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/07/the-tidal-wave-of-rising-gpu-tam-raises-all-boats/feed/ 4 143374 Nvidia Pushes Hopper HBM Memory, And That Lifts GPU Performance https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/13/nvidia-pushes-hopper-hbm-memory-and-that-lifts-gpu-performance/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/13/nvidia-pushes-hopper-hbm-memory-and-that-lifts-gpu-performance/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:46:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143235 For very sound technical and economic reasons, processors of all kinds have been overprovisioned on compute and underprovisioned on memory bandwidth – and sometimes memory capacity depending on the device and depending on the workload – for decades. …

Nvidia Pushes Hopper HBM Memory, And That Lifts GPU Performance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/13/nvidia-pushes-hopper-hbm-memory-and-that-lifts-gpu-performance/feed/ 3 143235 OpenAI To Join The Custom AI Chip Club? https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/06/openai-to-join-the-custom-ai-chip-club/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/06/openai-to-join-the-custom-ai-chip-club/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:29:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143098 It would be hard to find something that is growing faster than the Nvidia datacenter business, but there is one contender: OpenAI. …

OpenAI To Join The Custom AI Chip Club? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/10/06/openai-to-join-the-custom-ai-chip-club/feed/ 11 143098 Nvidia Rounds Out “Ampere” Lineup With Two New Accelerators https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/04/15/nvidia-rounds-out-ampere-lineup-with-two-new-accelerators/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/04/15/nvidia-rounds-out-ampere-lineup-with-two-new-accelerators/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2021 23:44:09 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=138238 In a world where GPUs have tens of billions of transistors and chip manufacturing techniques are costly and yields are particularly tough because of the largesse of these devices, every chip that comes of out the foundry is sacred. …

Nvidia Rounds Out “Ampere” Lineup With Two New Accelerators was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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