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Server market rockets higher in ’25

By DanOlds | March 27, 2026

Our pal TPM at The Next Platform breaks down the server market and provides greatly needed context.

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Fake Science Racket Revealed!

By DanOlds | March 10, 2026

Northwestern says fake science is spreading faster than real science and brought receipts. NOT good.

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“Replace junior staff with AI? Dumbest thing…..”

By DanOlds | August 21, 2025

AWS CEO says replacing junior staff with AI is the ‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

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‘Shiny object syndrome’ and AI

By DanOlds | July 10, 2025

Good advice from US EPA CIO – AI isn’t a wonder drug, have specific use cases before adopting!

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Chip Dive: Grace Hopper, AMD MI300A, AWS Graviton

By DanOlds | August 10, 2024

Chips and Cheese deep rambly dive into accelerator approaches post Nvidia Grace Hopper GH200 intro.

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Wafer-Scale Triumph on Hardcore Science AND LLM Inference

By DanOlds | June 27, 2024

Amazing results from Cerebras on completely unrelated workloads. 179x Frontier, 66% less time/energy on LLM inference.

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Ethernet Gang Looks to Topple InfiniBand

By DanOlds | June 26, 2024

Very informative Next Platform article on UEC vs. InfiniBand.

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