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The US has earmarked $3 billion in funding it hopes will drive US leadership in advanced packaging technologies, seen as a key part of the future semiconductor industry.

Since the ‘AI made in Europe’ strategy launched in February 2020, the US has pulled further ahead. The EU’s problem is a lack of scale and focus. The answer is to adopt CERN’s approach to running large, coordinated and highly ambitious projects

This surge in computational strength is not just for bragging rights. Chinese government recognizes the crucial role of advanced computing in various sectors, notably in finance and the educational realms.

Traditional cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed to support large-scale artificial intelligence. Hyperscalers are quickly working to rebuild it.

Many companies say the cloud is their go-to when it comes to training and running large AI applications—but today, only a small portion of existing cloud infrastructure is actually set up to support that. The rest is not.

As the demand for data booms, hyperscaling explodes in conjunction with that demand. Here are the Top 10 data centre hyperscalers across the planet.

Data centres are the backbone of the digital economy, providing the infrastructure necessary to store, process and transmit vast amounts of data. Hyperscale data centres are massive facilities built by companies with vast data processing and storage needs.

Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS/ TRENDS. Shift Towards Sustainable Measures to Reduce Carbon Emissions. The increasing data center power consumption and the need to decrease carbon emissions have prompted many service providers to purchase clean, renewable energy sources to power their current and new facilities.

After a flurry of new competitors in 2022 at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the first list of 2023 – issued here in Hamburg this morning at the ISC conference – reveals the same top 10 systems in the same order.

Rapidly expanding data needs accelerate growth and drive investor interest, even as headwinds persist

The need for data centres is growing but powering these is a challenge of economy. How are data centres finding energy efficiencies and cutting costs?

Through a €500 million pan-European effort, an exascale supercomputer called JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research) will be installed sometime in 2023 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, in Germany.

America’s top booster for federal semiconductor aid is arguing that the country needs to spend tens of billions more in silicon incentives to ensure it doesn’t lose leadership in chip design to other countries.

The top 10 of the semiannual TOP500 list of supercomputers for November 2022 has just one new entrant, Leonardo, which jumped in at #4.

A new report from IDC predicts the global market value of artificial intelligence solutions will reach close to $450 billion in 2022 and will continue to grow over the next five years.

Late last month, the House and Senate approved the CHIPS and Science Act after nearly two years of negotiations and political infighting. Among its investments in American scientific research, it includes $52 billion in subsidies to encourage chip manufacturers to build out semiconductor fabrication plants, or “fabs,” in the US.

This research contains complete information of the AI-related processors specifications and capabilities which were produced by the key market players and start-ups.

This comprehensive analysis can aid you in your technology acquisitions or investment decisions related to the fast-growing AI processors market.

The EU Chips Act will build on Europe’s strengths – world-leading research and technology organisations and networks as well as host of pioneering equipment manufacturers – and address outstanding weaknesses. It will bring about a thriving semiconductor sector from research to production and a resilient supply chain. It will mobilise more than €43 billion euros of public and private investments and set measures to prevent, prepare, anticipate and swiftly respond to any future supply chains disruption, together with Member States and our international partners. It will enable the EU to reach its ambition to double its current market share to 20% in 2030.

With the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), questions about how this technology will impact businesses, consumers, and the economy, in general, have emerged. Employees are becoming increasingly curious about the implications of AI for their jobs, while companies are eager to take advantage of the opportunities given by this new trend.

PwC estimates that AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Among these, $6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity, and $9.1 trillion from consumer benefits.

With the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), questions about how this technology will impact businesses, consumers, and the economy, in general, have emerged. Employees are becoming increasingly curious about the implications of AI for their jobs, while companies are eager to take advantage of the opportunities given by this new trend.

PwC estimates that AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Among these, $6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity, and $9.1 trillion from consumer benefits.

“PCIe 6.0 technology is the cost-effective and scalable interconnect solution that will continue to impact data-intensive markets like data center, artificial intelligence/machine learning, HPC, automotive, IoT, and military/aerospace, while also protecting industry investments by maintaining backwards compatibility with all previous generations of PCIe technology.”

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the PM1743 SSD for enterprise servers, integrating the PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) 5.0 interface with Samsung’s advanced sixth-generation V-NAND.

SK hynix announced that it has begun sampling out its first 24Gb DDR5 samples to industry partners. The move comes more than a year after it released its own take of the memory standard in October 2020.

Current desktop, laptop, server and gaming computing platforms leverage PCIe 4.0 (8 GT/s) infrastructure. Looking forward, chipsets solutions from Intel, AMD, Nvidia and others feature native PCIe 5.0 (16 GT/s) support. Also, PCIe 5.0 capable motherboards, SSDs and other components are popping up in the market.

PCIe performance never slows. PCI-SIG^®, the industry association committed to advancing PCIe technology, is developing the latest PCIe 6.0^® specification.

Taiwan is looking at cooperating with three Eastern European countries on semiconductors, a minister said on Thursday, a move likely to find favour in Brussels which has been courting Taiwanese semiconductor firms to manufacture in the bloc.

With this, CXL has emerged as the protocol of choice for linking CPU memory to the memory of accelerators and, interestingly enough, as the protocol that will be used to link any kind of compute engine to external memory resources.