AI growth is about to hit a (memory) wall
AI chip and infrastructure orders continue to flood in But memory bandwidth could be a limiting factoring in putting all that new compute power to efficient use Tools can help improve available memory bandwidth, but there’s no cure all yet...
Ooredoo: Nvidia GPUs will power Qatar’s AI cloud
Ooredoo, Qatar’s leading telecommunications provider, has announced the launch of advanced sovereign AI cloud services, built on the latest Nvidia Hopper GPUs and hosted in its local data centers. This strategic deployment brings world-class accelerated computing capabilities to Qatar, significantly...
Global data center capex surged 53% Y/Y in 1Q 2025, says Dell’Oro Group
According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks, and data center industries, worldwide data center capex surged 53 percent year-over-year in 1Q 2025, marking the sixth consecutive quarter...
Cheat sheet: Everything you need to know about Stargate
Stargate is OpenAI’s bid to build the data center infrastructure it needs for AI It initially aimed at building facilities in the U.S. A project in the UAE is its first – but not last – international venture People of...
Op-Ed: Tech and telecom are giving me the ick
I can’t be the only one feeling this way. Covering tech and telecom has always been a test of patience, with change in telecom especially moving at a glacial pace. But lately it’s starting to feel like a test of...
Tarrifs are sure to hurt more for smaller RAN vendors
Tariffs are unlikely to derail the entire open RAN movement, but will affect smaller vendors more profoundly If tariffs push operators toward more conservative investment approaches, that could mean open RAN suffers more than traditional RAN Smaller vendors are already...
Verizon breathes new life into MEC with Nvidia AI deal. Woot!?
Verizon has been talking about MEC for years and years and years and years But wait. Verizon is partnering with Nvidia on this deal, which adds AI to the mix, so it’s all good, right? Sorry if we sound a...
Qualcomm/Intel tie-up is problematic for 3 big reasons
Qualcomm/Intel tie-up is problematic for 3 big reasons malleven Mon, 09/23/2024 – 14:40 Source link...
T-Mobile talks a big talk, but who’s buying it?
T-Mobile held its Capital Markets Day in San Francisco on Wednesday, laying out its growth strategy for the next three years Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were surprise guests and provided some all-star sizzle to the...
Data center operators want to run chips at higher temps. Here’s why.
Higher-power chips are generating more heat, increasing cooling needs Data center operators want chip designers to let them run chips at higher temperatures to balance sustainability needs The ecosystem conversation is slowly evolving to prioritize not just performance but also...