Compute Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/compute/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:50:19 +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 Compute Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/compute/ 32 32 86113652 Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:47:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145323 People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …

Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/feed/ 5 145323 German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:45:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145314 The quantum computing space is replete with big-name companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel touting incremental but important steps they’re taking to bring the long-promised technology to the fore. …

German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/feed/ 0 145314 Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/cisco-is-the-bellwether-of-enterprise-ai-adoption/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/cisco-is-the-bellwether-of-enterprise-ai-adoption/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:04:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145306 While the hyperscalers and big cloud builders all are racing as fast as they can to build the biggest – and presumably the best – models, or collections of models, to win the AI race and become the Microsoft or Red Hat of commercial-grade models, the acquisition of AI hardware and envelope pushing on AI model architecture is not indicative of the adoption of AI by enterprises. …

Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/cisco-is-the-bellwether-of-enterprise-ai-adoption/feed/ 0 145306 HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:07:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145300 Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …

HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/feed/ 0 145300 Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/extended-blackwell-gpu-ramp-cools-growth-at-supermicro/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/extended-blackwell-gpu-ramp-cools-growth-at-supermicro/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:57:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145296 Nvidia may be shipping its “Blackwell” B100, B200, and GB200 compute engines, but not in enough volumes for server maker Supermicro to meet its revenue expectations in the quarter ended in December. …

Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/extended-blackwell-gpu-ramp-cools-growth-at-supermicro/feed/ 1 145296 Intel Datacenter Chief Departs To Run Nokia – Now What? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/10/intel-datacenter-chief-departs-to-run-nokia-now-what/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/10/intel-datacenter-chief-departs-to-run-nokia-now-what/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:42:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145285 After only a little more than a year of running Intel’s Data Center and AI group – which is probably about as much fun right now as falling down the stairs – Justin Hotard has departed the chip maker to become the next chief executive officer of Nokia, which interestingly enough has a renewed interest in building cloud networks and making money at that. …

Intel Datacenter Chief Departs To Run Nokia – Now What? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/10/intel-datacenter-chief-departs-to-run-nokia-now-what/feed/ 3 145285 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 How Much Money Does Arm Make In The Datacenter? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/06/how-much-money-does-arm-make-in-the-datacenter/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/06/how-much-money-does-arm-make-in-the-datacenter/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:37:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145272 As we have been saying for quite some time, when it comes to datacenter CPUs, we think that homegrown Arm processors (as well as those made by independents Ampere Computing and Huawei Technologies) will eventually represent at least half of the computing capacity that the hyperscalers and major cloud builders install. …

How Much Money Does Arm Make In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/06/how-much-money-does-arm-make-in-the-datacenter/feed/ 3 145272 AMD Moves Up Instinct MI355X Launch As Datacenter Biz Hits Records https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/04/amd-moves-up-instinct-355x-launch-as-datacenter-biz-hits-records/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/04/amd-moves-up-instinct-355x-launch-as-datacenter-biz-hits-records/#comments Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:20:28 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145259 When we first started The Next Platform a decade ago, there was not really much of a reason to cover the company’s datacenter efforts. …

AMD Moves Up Instinct MI355X Launch As Datacenter Biz Hits Records was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/04/amd-moves-up-instinct-355x-launch-as-datacenter-biz-hits-records/feed/ 2 145259 The Gigabucks Going Into Datacenter Gigawatts https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/03/the-gigabucks-going-into-datacenter-gigawatts/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:52:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145255 The only thing that takes longer to bring online slower than a datacenter is a chip foundry, which is unfortunate for a lot of different reasons. …

The Gigabucks Going Into Datacenter Gigawatts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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