Broadband Optical SSDs may be key to development of town-sized mega data centers Opting for optical SSDs allow distance between compute and storage to grow far more The other advantage of going optical is the energy savings associated with moving petabytes of data around A trio of Japanese tech giants, Kioxia, AIO Core, and Kyocera,…

I’ve watched enough robot videos online to know that slapping an AI model into a hunk of hardware doesn’t automatically make it useful. I remember one clip in particular where someone had wired ChatGPT into a robot dog, and the results were mixed. Sure, the robot could suddenly answer your questions with confidence. But asking…

IBM’s fastest mainframe computer to date has a Telum II CPU with on-chip AI coprocessor There is also an AI accelerator that it hopes will make it an attractive option The IBM z17 brings Big Blue in the age of AI but will this be enough to fend off competition? IBM has announced the z17,…

The promise of a lot what we currently call AI is that these tools can streamline some of the most tedious bits of life. They can summarize that meeting you missed without having to read a transcript or they can trim a video without you manually cutting every silent second. Adobe has taken that to…

RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 memory is far cheaper than the equivalent AI accelerator from Nvidia Several of them can be teamed together to support very large language models Crypto mining in the early 2020s caused prices of GPUs to spike, the same is likely to happen with AI During the early 2020s, cryptomining was…