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Gartner Takes Another Stab At Forecasting AI Spending

31 January 2026 at 00:18

The market researchers at Gartner have extended their forecast out to 2027 and dropped 2024 from the view since it is now more than a year past. …

Gartner Takes Another Stab At Forecasting AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI

29 January 2026 at 05:53

If you want to know the state of the art in GenAI model development, you watch what the Super 8 hyperscalers and cloud builders are doing and you also keep an eye on the major model builders outside of these companies – mainly, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI as well as a few players in China like DeepSeek. …

Big Blue Poised To Peddle Lots Of On Premises GenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Nvidia’s $2 Billion Investment In CoreWeave Is A Drop In A $250 Billion Bucket

27 January 2026 at 05:05

With the hyperscalers and the cloud builders all working on their own CPU and AI XPU designs, it is no wonder that Nvidia has been championing the neoclouds that can’t afford to try to be everything to everyone – this is the very definition of enterprise computing – and that, frankly, are having trouble coming up with the trillions of dollars to cover the 150 gigawatts to more than 200 gigawatts of datacenter capacity that is estimated to be on the books between 2025 and 2030 for AI workloads. …

Nvidia’s $2 Billion Investment In CoreWeave Is A Drop In A $250 Billion Bucket was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting

26 January 2026 at 20:34

Amid the myriad discussions about AI – from the astounding amount of money being spent by vendors and enterprises and the debate about actual ROI those businesses are getting to the technology’s effect on cybersecurity, jobs, and the fear of disinformation and resulting distrust – it’s easy to forget its usefulness in particular industries. …

Nvidia Takes The Open Road In AI Weather Forecasting was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Intel Is Still Struggling In The Datacenter, But It Could Get Better

23 January 2026 at 16:31

Intel has been pushing its two-core server CPU strategy for so long, in one form or another, that we have become accustomed to differentiating products the way Intel does and then try to figure out what workloads these chips might be useful for. …

Intel Is Still Struggling In The Datacenter, But It Could Get Better was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge β€œSkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch

21 January 2026 at 18:47

The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money. …

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge β€œSkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

16 January 2026 at 17:33

If the GenAI expansion runs out of gas, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s most important foundry for advanced chippery, will be the first to know. …

TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI

15 January 2026 at 15:15

If GenAI is going to go mainstream and not just be a bubble that helps prop up the global economy for a couple of years, AI inference is going to have to come down in price – and do so faster than it has done thus far. …

Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales

13 January 2026 at 21:34

As the year came to an end, we tore apart IDC’s assessments for server spending, including the huge jump in accelerated supercomputers for running GenAI and more traditional machine learning workloads and as this year got started, we did forensic analysis and modeling based on the company’s reckoning of Ethernet switching and routing revenues. …

By Decade’s End, AI Will Drive More Than Half Of All Chip Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs

8 January 2026 at 21:20

But virtue of its scale out capability, which is key for driving the size of absolutely enormous AI clusters, and to its universality, Ethernet switch sales are booming, and if the recent history is any guide, we can expect Ethernet revenues will climb exponentially higher in the coming quarters as well. …

Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy

7 January 2026 at 21:04

In the early days of D-Wave’s history, the company made a decision to pursue annealing as its first technology to build a quantum computer because it promised to offer the fastest path to commercial quantum computing. …

D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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