Huawei AI Cloud: Power hungry, all optics, etc. Interesting take from China to NVIDIA. And even more interesting, how to fence off all the tariffs and restrictions…
Google Ironwood TPUv7: “It scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked with breakthrough Inter-Chip Interconnect (ICI) networking spanning nearly 10 MW” I wonder how is the network… but doesnt give low level details, just marketing.
TV garden: TVs from around the world…. just in case you want to learn a language?
Hacker Laws: So many I dont know
Daylight: Looks so nice!!! And it seems it can read kindle books. Tempting
NVIDIA Photonics: I read about co-packaged from some Sherada post’s… but I didn’t see it coming so fast in production. With my network operations hat on…. how is the troubleshooting done? It the part where the fiber breaks, you replace the whole device? I guess this has been thought very deeply.
The power consumed by optics in the network is enormous and so is the capital expense. Anecdotally, we have heard it said many times that the majority of the cost in a datacenter-scale cluster is in the optical transceivers at both ends of a link and the fiber optic cable between them. Some the pieces that link switches to network interface cards is 75 percent to 80 percent of the cost of a network, with the switches and the NICs making up the other 20 percent to 25 percent.
Xsight: Another network silicon vendor. The article mentions Tofino P4.. I hope doesn’t end that way. I didn’t know anything about Avigdor Willenz
In part, that expectation for big change comes from the fact that Avigdor Willenz is the company’s founding investor. Willenz founded Galileo Technology, a maker of Ethernet switch ASICs that sold to Marvell in 2001 for $2.7 billion, and that wealth has been spread around. Willenz invested in Annapurna Labs, which sold to Amazon Web Services in 2015 for $350 million and which has created its Nitro DPUs, Graviton CPUs, and Trainium and Inferentia AI engines. He was president (now chairman) and first investor in distributed flash block storage maker Lightbits Labs. Willenz was a co-founder of AI chip maker Habana Labs, which sold to Intel in 2019 for $2 billion and is the foundation of its Gaudi compute engine line.
Finger Strength: “I’ve never seen strength like this before” true story
TFCC wrist injury: part of life…