That was my first thought when AMD briefed me about the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink), a joint effort between AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft to create a set of standards to allow the interoperation of […]
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One of the troubling uses of a new technology like AI is the feeding frenzy of trying to apply it to every problem without any significant effort to inform the order in which AI is implemented by company need. This
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Everyone is currently learning how to train and deploy AI. Companies like NVIDIA provide the core technology as well as some direction given its multi-decade-long path to achieving AI dominance. But its strongest competency is in collaborating with companies like
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Every industry has the same problem: figuring out what customers will want in a three-, five-, or 10-year timeframe. The reason we need to know what customers will want is that it takes from three to 10 years to create
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The launch of Microsoft Copilot is struggling. The people there who know what they are doing are being eclipsed by two things. Too often, they aren’t the ones making critical decisions, and second, someone in the decision tree is starving
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Microsoft Build this year was all about Copilot, which will span Microsoft’s offerings. While any current computer can run Copilot, only special AI PCs run Copilot+. Copilot+ gets you to a whole different level of AI experiences that require the
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One of the highlights of CES 2024 was the ThinkBook 13x. I’ve waited months to get my hands on one, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s lightweight, attractive, and has up to 21 hours of battery life and 3 USB-C Thunderbolt
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The choice between power servers and x86 servers comes down to price vs. security and reliability. As we depend more and more on AIs and AIs increasingly operate autonomously, the security and uptime risks increase because, should the AI server
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AMD hit 55 this week, and it has been an amazing ride. AMD started out as the redundant supplier to Intel with x86 because IBM, like most companies at the time, didn’t want to be the sole source of a
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A lot of us covering AI have become increasingly concerned about the lack of control over what’s being developed and the haphazard and dangerous efforts surrounding it. For instance, this post about one of these experiments on Reddit had me
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