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April
- | The Next Platform
UALink Fires First GPU Interconnect Salvo At Nvidia NVSwitch
Compute engine makers can do all they want to bring the performance of their devices on par or even reasonably close to that of Nvidia’s various GPU accelerators, but until they have something akin to the NVLink and NVSwitch memory fabric that Nvidia uses to leverage the performance of many GPUs at bandwidths that dwarf PCI-Express switches and latencies that dwarf Ethernet interconnects, they can never catch up.
February
- | Tom's Hardware
OpenAI has run out of GPUs, says Sam Altman — GPT-4.5 rollout delayed due to lack of processing power
OpenAI has just released its latest model, GPT-4.5. However, it’s currently limited to Pro subscribers who pay $200 a month. Its CEO, Sam Altman, said on X (formerly Twitter) that it had to stagger the model’s release because “…we’ve been growing a lot and are out of GPUs.”
January
- | BCG
Breaking Barriers to Data Center Growth
Data centers are booming, but power, supply chain, and sustainability challenges threaten growth. Companies can surmount the obstacles and meet the growing thirst for computing power.
October
- | IEA
What the data centre and AI boom could mean for the energy sector
A wave of data centre investment raises concerns about a surge in electricity demand and its impacts