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NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion: True Innovation or Strategic Lock-in?
NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion True Innovation or Strategic Lock-in? Earlier this week at Computex, Jensen Huang introduced NVLink Fusion, positioning it as a means to "democratize scale-up" by allowing customers to mix and match compute architectures. On the surface, this suggests flexibility: integrating CPUs, GPUs, and specialized silicon, all interconnected via NVIDIA's high-performance NVLink. However, upon closer examination, this appears to be more of an illusion of choice.
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From Silicon to Token
The world of large‑language‑model inference moves fast. Meta’s Llama 4 and DeepSeek's range of models turns yesterday’s “good enough” hardware into today’s bottleneck, so picking the right platform is more strategic than ever. I compared eight options that keep popping up in various engineering and sales conversations, including consumer RTX GPUs, Apple Silicon, NVIDIA’s H‑series, Groq’s purpose‑built LPU, Cerebras’ wafer‑scale engine, and turnkey DGX workstations. Each proves valuable in th
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From Silicon to Token
The world of large‑language‑model inference moves fast. Meta’s Llama 4 and DeepSeek's range of models turns yesterday’s “good enough” hardware into today’s bottleneck, so picking the right platform is more strategic than ever. I compared eight options that keep popping up in various engineering and sales conversations, including consumer RTX GPUs, Apple Silicon, NVIDIA’s H‑series, Groq’s purpose‑built LPU, Cerebras’ wafer‑scale engine, and turnkey DGX workstations. Each proves valuable in th
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GTC 2025: NVIDIA’s Big Moves and Bigger Questions
Explore NVIDIA's GTC 2025 reveals, from Hopper racks to Silicon Photonics. What challenges and surprises await digital infrastructure's future?
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GTC 2025 Preview: The Future of GPU Technology with Ben Baldieri
On the eve of NVIDIA's 2025 GTC Conference, Nick Hume and Ben Baldieri dive into the evolving GPU world and its impact on digital infrastructure. They explore the challenges and opportunities in the GPU-as-a-service market, enterprise adoption trends, and the critical role of data management and com
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Behind the Curtain: AWS re:Invent 2024 Highlights
Expanding on my post from last week, it was great to see AWS leaning back into their engineering roots at re:Invent this year. They really pulled back the curtain to show us how they’re solving problems at a scale most of us can’t even imagine. It also brought back memories of my own work at re:Invent in 2018, working behind the scenes on level-400 (expert) break-out sessions, workshops and demos. Those experiences gave me a front-row seat to the kind of engineering depth AWS brings to the tabl
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