Cerebras packs 4 trillion transistor into CS-3 AI processor

Cerebras Systems introduced its Wafer Scale Engine 3 chip boasting 4 trillion transistors and 125 petaflops of peak AI performance through 900,000 AI optimized compute cores.With a huge memory system of up to 1.2 petabytes, the CS-3 is designed to train next generation frontier models 10x larger than GPT-4 and Gemini. 24 trillion parameter models can be stored in a single logical memory space without partitioning or refactoring, dramatically simplifying...

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Arelion an Telxius boost connectivity in North and Latin America

Arelion and Telxius are collaborating to provide multi-terabit connectivity into Telxius’ landing stations in Boca Raton and Jacksonville, Florida. This fiber network expansion establishes Arelion Points-of-Presence (PoPs) at each Telxius landing station. For Telxius, it empowers customers with resilient Tier-1 optical transport and high-speed access to Arelion’s North American network. Together, Arelion and Telxius are making a significant...

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Integrating Infinera ZR/ZR+ Optical Modules with DriveNets Network Cloud

DriveNets and Infinera completed testing and certification of multiple Infinera ICE-X ZR/ZR+ modules that can be tunable, configurable, and manageable by DriveNets Network Cloud software. This will enable operators to reduce the number of network elements they need to manage and is made possible by advancements in ZR/ZR+ pluggables that support greater distances, eliminating most of the need for a separate optical network. The joint DriveNets/Infinera...

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Celestial AI to showcase Photonic Fabric

At the upcoming #OFC24 in San Diego, Celestial AI will showcase its Photonic Fabric which provides breakthrough optical interconnect for memory and compute to meet the increasingly challenging requirements of AI workloads. Celestial AI says its Memory Fabric technology delivers over 25x greater bandwidth and memory capacity while reducing latency and power consumption by up to 10x compared to existing copper and optical interconnect alternatives....

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Equinix appoints Adaire Fox-Martin as CEO - formerly led Google Cloud

 Equinix named Adaire Fox-Martin as its next president and CEO, succeeding Charles Meyers who plans to transition to the role of Executive Chairman at the end of Q2 2024. Peter Van Camp, currently Executive Chairman, will step away from his formal responsibilities as a Board member to take the role of Special Advisor to the Board.Fox-Martin most recently served as President of Go-to-Market for Google Cloud and Head of Google Ireland. In this...

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