AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit Rebrands as AI Infra Summit and Expands Scope to Enterprise AI

The AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, a prestigious Silicon Valley tech conference that has long served the semiconductor and IT infrastructure industries, will return in 2025 as the AI Infra Summit.

Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling Ecosystem Expands: New Compact ThinkSystem V4 Solutions Deliver Massive Efficiency for HPC and AI Workloads

Today, Lenovo expanded its industry-leading Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooling technology to more servers with new ThinkSystem V4 designs that help businesses boost intelligence, consolidate IT and lower power consumption in the new era of AI. Powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with P-cores, the new Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SC750 V4 supercomputing infrastructure combines peak performance with advanced efficiency to deliver faster insights in a space-optimized design for intensive HPC workloads.  

Broadcom Delivers Industry Leading 200G/lane DSP for Gen AI Infrastructure

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced the general availability of SianTM2, 200 Gbps per lane (200G/lane) PAM-4 DSP PHY. Sian2 features 200G/lane electrical and optical interfaces to augment the Sian DSP that supports 100 Gbps electrical and 200Gbps optical interfaces. Sian and Sian2 DSPs enable pluggable modules with 200G/lane interfaces that are foundational to connect next generation AI clusters.

Field Report: 2024 AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit

Always looking forward for a chance to return to my home away from home of Silicon Valley, I jumped at the opportunity to attend my first-ever hardware focused conference, the 2024 AI Hardware and Edge AI put on by Kisaco Research. The event took place Sept. 9-12, 2024 in beautiful San Jose, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley.

insideAI News – Company Highlights for AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit 2024

insideAI News is pleased to announce being a Media Partner for the upcoming AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit happening Sept. 9-12, 2024 in San Jose, Calif. Register now using the special insideAI News discount code “Insideai15” HERE. Editor-in-Chief & Resident Data Scientist, Daniel D. Gutierrez will be attending in-person to keep a pulse on this advancing industry. He will be conducting interviews with some of the movers and shakers from the AI industry ecosystem.

Heard on the Street – 8/21/2024

Welcome to insideAI News’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column. In this feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the AI industry ecosystem. We cover the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Transforming AI’s Memory Constraints: The Evolution with CXL Technology

In this contributed article, Jianping (JP) Jiang, VP of Business, Operation and Product at Xconn Technologies, discusses how the integration of CXL technology is a pivotal moment in overcoming the memory barriers faced by AI and HPC applications. By significantly enhancing memory bandwidth, capacity, and interoperability, CXL not only optimizes current workloads but also sets the stage for future advancements.

NPUs are Emerging as the Main Rival to NVIDIA’s AI Dominance

Fueled by the rise of Generative AI, the semiconductor market has established itself as one of the most profitable industries globally − the sector is already worth over $600 billion, with this figure set to increase to $1 trillion by 2030. During this growth period, NVIDIA has achieved the status of undisputed leader, predominantly as a result of the superior performance of its graphics processing units (GPUs).

How Private Networks Are Driving the Data-Powered Enterprise of Tomorrow

In this contributed article, Ana Redondo, Product Strategy Lead at Amdocs Technology, explores how enterprises will begin shifting their focus in 2024 to better leverage their data analytics. She explains how this shift in mindset will bring forth an upcoming data revolution. Including how the reservoirs of data, from legacy to next-gen operational technology systems, combined with the troves from the Edge and Network, will provide a new level of insights for enterprises.

Storj Acquires Leading AI Compute Provider, Valdi

Storj announced a new era in distributed cloud innovation with the acquisition of Valdi. Storj is a leader in distributed cloud object storage, disrupting the $100 billion cloud storage market, delivering up to 90% cost savings and 90% less carbon emissions for customers. Valdi is the leader in on-demand high performance cloud computing (GPUs) widely used for AI training and inference in data-intensive industries like technology, research and life-sciences.