12/03/2023 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Amazon Web Services, DigitalBridge, Google, DePIN
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
AWS re:Invent conference news
Amazon Web Services announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families—AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2—delivering advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of customer workloads, including machine learning (ML) training and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Silicon Angle re: Invent exclusive: AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to reveal a new generative AI stack.
HPCwire: AWS and NVIDIA announce Strategic Collaboration to Offer New Supercomputing Infrastructure, Software and Services for Generative AI.
VMware by Broadcom unveiled a flexible new architecture for VMware Cloud on AWS to accelerate cloud migration and support modern AI/ML workloads.
[Link] Via a project years in the making with partner Fervo Energy, Google has begun fully operating a geothermal energy system to support its data centers in Nevada.
[Link] DigitalBridge Announces Total Commitments of $1.1 Billion for Digital Infrastructure Credit Strategy.
[Link] Broadcom announced a novel on-chip, neural-network inference engine called NetGNT (Networking General-purpose Neural-network Traffic-analyzer) in its new, software-programmable Trident 5-X12 chip.
[Link] Dell and Imbue, an independent AI research company, have entered into a $150 million agreement to build a new high-performance computing cluster for training foundation models optimized for reasoning.
[Link] Unpacking DEPIN: Types of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks and Innovative Projects. A nice article that breaks down sensor networks, server networks, wireless networks, and energy networks; all in the context of crypto, blockchain, and real-world infrastructure.
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