Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Samsung Foundry targets CPO-integrated AI silicon by 2027

Samsung introduced two new advanced semiconductor nodes, SF2Z and SF4U, and unveiled its integrated Samsung AI Solutions platform, leveraging the strengths of its Foundry, Memory, and Advanced Package (AVP) businesses. At its annual Samsung Foundry event in San Jose, California, Samsung executives emphasized the company’s unique ability to company the latest process node, advanced packaging, and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for customers targeting...

NVIDIA Triples LLM Performance with H100 GPUs + Quantum-2 InfiniBand

 NVIDIA has achieved a remarkable milestone by more than tripling the performance on the large language model (LLM) benchmark, based on GPT-3 175B, compared to its record-setting submission from last year. This feat was accomplished using an AI supercomputer featuring 11,616 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. The enhanced performance is attributed to the larger scale—more than triple the...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to provide capacity for OpenAI

OpenAl will extend its Microsoft Azure Al platform using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The agreement will provide additional capacity for OpenAl.“We are delighted to be working with Microsoft and Oracle. OCI will extend Azure’s platform and enable OpenAI to continue to scale,” said Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI.“The race to build the world’s greatest large language model is on, and it is fueling unlimited demand for Oracle’s Gen2...

Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure announce partnership

 Oracle and Google Cloud have announced a partnership to integrate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud technologies. This collaboration will initially allow customers to deploy general-purpose workloads with no cross-cloud data transfer charges in 11 global regions through Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect. Later this year, the partnership will introduce Oracle Database@Google Cloud, offering the highest level of Oracle...

MEF and TM Forum to align APIs and service models

MEF and TM Forum announced a joint initiative to align their respective API and product and service models. This collaboration aims to streamline automation for MEF Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) implementations across a global partner ecosystem. The initiative will integrate MEF’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs with TM Forum’s Gen5 Open API standards, using Domain Context Specialization (DCS) to support standardized MEF-defined models....

Broadcom posts revenue of $12.5B, up 12% yoy excluding VMware

Broadcom reported revenue of $12,487 million for its second quarter of fiscal year 2024, ended May 5, 2024, provided guidance for its fiscal year 2024 and announced its quarterly dividend.GAAP net income was $2,121 million for the second quarter, and Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $10.96. Quarterly common stock dividend was $5.25 per share.Consolidated revenue grew 43% year-over-year to $12.5 billion, including the contribution from VMware, and was up...