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TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4.
Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say.
At its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, the cloud service provider introduced several new and free updates that are expected to help enterprises optimize their AWS costs.
Low vacancies and the cost of AI have driven up colocation fees by 15%, DatacenterHawk reports.
Nvidia’s AI-focused H20 GPUs bypass US restrictions on China’s silicon access, including limits on-chip performance and density.
Nvidia faces uncertainty and anticipates a negative long-term impact on its China business due to export controls, with an unclear magnitude of the effect.
Five days before the two companies’ merger agreement was due to expire, the deal has passed its final regulatory hurdle.
The Dutch manufacturer of ultraviolet and deep ultraviolet technology has said it will spend over $100 million a year to increase its production and development capacity.
Nvidia’s network infrastructure stack will be available through servers from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.
The nature of their design makes CPUs run hotter than ever, and one AMD executive says heat density is unlikely to decrease with future chips.
The unexpected decision to abandon plans to hive off the cloud computing business led to a $20 billion decline in Alibaba Group’s market value on Friday, as its shares fell 10% in Hong Kong.
Cisco says a backlog of purchased, uninstalled gear is causing a slowdown in new orders and impacting its bottom line.
The new AI Readiness Index from Cisco points out serious challenges related to infrastructure capabilities, data governance and talent availability.
Nvidia’s generative AI-based foundry services on Microsoft Azure are already being used by several companies including SAP, Amdocs, and Getty Images.
New chips from Microsoft along with other custom chips from the likes of AWS, Google and Oracle, though limited in their impact initially, are expected to provide stiff competition for chipmakers such as Nvidia, AMD and Intel, analysts said.
Cisco has a variety of new partnerships and programs aimed at helping enterprises build AI-ready infrastructure.
Next generation Xeon and Gaudi are among the announcements.
Enterprises struggle to find IT pros with cloud architectural knowledge and the ability to monitor and troubleshoot cloud environments.
The new Nvidia HGX H200 has been designed to support the high performance computing workloads required to train generative AI models.
An early adopter of immersion cooling, LiquidStack now plans to offer a second form of hardware immersion.
For the fourth consecutive time, Frontier tops the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, while new and upgraded systems disrupt the semi-annual rankings.
The chipmaker could be trying to circumvent US restrictions that aim to prevent Chinese companies from stringing together lesser-powered GPUs to build compute capacity for AI-based workloads.
At the tail end of a year that has seen significant investments funnel into Japan’s semiconductor industry, the government has announced further funding to bolster its manufacturing and R&D efforts.
VMware’s do-it-yourself private AI program has two new partners, offering users more options for in-house generative AI training and deployments.
IT organizations that invest in observability tools can recover services faster, remediate security events sooner, and identify the impact of incidents better, according to Splunk’s annual observability research.
As part of the UK government’s £900 million ($1.1 billion) spending package to drive the country’s AI research and innovation capabilities, the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, and Edinburgh will open three world-leading supercomputers over the n
The layoffs are happening in the wake of a market retraction, Splunk CEO Gary Steele said.
The vendors are combining Cisco 8000 series routers, Aviz Networks’ SONiC management software, and 24-7 support to accelerate SONiC deployments in private and edge clouds.
AI hardware is expensive to acquire and operate, and many enterprise customers may opt to have hyperscalers do it for them.
Use of managed service providers, system integrators, and other channel partners is on the rise as IT teams grapple with security, supply chain, and skills challenges.
The goal is to accelerate development of Neoverse CSS-based systems.
With Secure SD-LAN, Versa software is deployed on Ethernet switches and access points to tie together switching, routing, security, and network services.
PowerMaxOS version 10.1 is aimed at helping enterprises to improve storage efficiency, strengthen cybersecurity and build more energy-efficient data centers.
The HPE subsidiary’s new release of NetConductor boosts application visibility and policy-enforcement capabilities to give enterprises greater control across distributed networks.
IT inventory and asset management virtual appliance can now discover cloud components.
Cloud spending and cybersecurity investments will be the biggest drivers of enterprise IT spending growth in the coming year.
Palo Alto competes in the market for cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP) along with Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler and others.
The telecom giant said it will embark on a host of cost-cutting measures over the next three years, which includes a workforce reduction plan.
Juniper’s new Security Distributed Services Architecture includes AI-based predictive threat support.
Integrated capabilities can enable network managers to automate OS upgrades, network configuration updates, and multiple levels of remediation.
Gartner’s top predictions for enterprise IT organizations are dominated by AI, which is influencing trends including employee unionization, application modernization, and smart robots.
AI factories are data centers with infrastructure specially built for processing, refining, and transforming vast amounts of data into valuable AI models and tokens.
GenAI will be a workforce partner for 90% of companies worldwide by 2025, Gartner predicts.
Networking and security teams are consolidating or being asked by management to improve collaboration between the two groups.
All things AI will dominate the enterprise in 2024, while cloud services, security and sustainability are also rising in influence.
Standard Power is deploying 24 of NuScale's small modular reactors to power data centers in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The acquisition is expected to help AMD compete better against chipmaker Nvidia.
Many enterprises prioritize innovation without adequately addressing the security risks posed by generative AI, IBM warns.
As demand for generative AI technology grows, chip shortages are not the main reason behind developing custom silicon, experts say.
