Tag: Accelerator Chips
‘Both Hopper and Blackwell systems have certain supply constraints, and the demand for Blackwell is expected to exceed supply for several quarters in fiscal 2026,’ Nvidia finance chief Colette Kress said in her third-quarter commentary before CEO Jensen Huang addressed issues with Blackwell. Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said the company is “racing to scale supply…
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At Supercomputing 2024, the AI computing giant shows off what is likely its biggest AI ‘chip’ yet—the four-GPU Grace Blackwell GB200 NVL4 Superchip—while it announces the general availability of its H200 NVL PCIe module for enterprise servers running AI workloads. Nvidia is revealing what is likely its biggest AI “chip” yet—the four-GPU Grace Blackwell GB200…
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‘We are not going to be successful driving adoption, sales of any of these things without our ecosystem of partners—the service partners, the MSPs, pretty much the entire constituency,’ says Bargav Balakrishnan, IBM vice president of product management for Power. IBM will incorporate its Spyre Accelerator in future Power products—including its Power11 system releasing next…
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Partners should see ‘a huge opportunity with OpenShift virtualization,’ especially with continued frustrations over price changes at rival VMware, said Kirsten Newcomer, Red Hat’s senior director of hybrid cloud platforms. Updates to Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift AI, Edge Device and Developer Hub should offer partners more ways to do business with customers, executives with the…
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‘As a part of aligning our resources with our largest growth opportunities, we are taking a number of targeted steps that will unfortunately result in reducing our global workforce by approximately 4 percent,’ an AMD spokesperson says in a statement to CRN. AMD said it’s laying off roughly 4 percent of its global workforce to…
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In an interview with CRN, Intel U.S. Channel Chief Michael Green admits that the rollout of the recently launched Gaudi 3 is a ‘slow process’ as the company scales up OEM support for the accelerator chip. ‘It’s a brand-new product that we’re ramping. We have visions of making this a channel-available product in 2025,’ he…
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‘We are asking Nvidia every day [about Blackwell availability]. So I hope their production can go smoothly and go for high volume very soon. And once they have achieved availability, our solutions are fully ready,’ says Supermicro President and CEO Charles Liang. Supermicro is ready to continue the rapid growth in the AI business as…
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The fact that AMD in the past quarter managed to unleash new data center AI chips sales opportunities equal to the full-year revenue goal that Intel now expects to miss is yet another reflection of how far behind Intel is in creating a meaningful AI chip business. Intel said it will fall short of the…
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Shannon Poulin, the COO of Intel programmable chip business Altera, says he has retired from the company as Intel seeks to sell a stake in the independent subsidiary ahead of a planned initial public offering. The COO of Intel programmable chip business Altera said he has retired from the company as the parent company seeks…
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The change is meant ‘to ensure a more representative exposure to the semiconductors industry,’ according to S&P. A changing of the guard will happen before trading opens Nov. 8 among publicly traded chipmakers, with graphics processing unit and artificial intelligence heavyweight Nvidia taking Intel’s spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. S&P Dow Jones Indices,…
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