Research Note: Ampere Computing Roadmap Updates

Ampere Computing Roadmap

Ampere announced updates to its AmpereOne processor roadmap, highlighting its upcoming product AmpereOne Aurora processor. The company also offered pricing updates and other details about its overall roadmap.

Research Note: Qualcomm FQ3 2024 Earnings

Image of Qualcomm's HQ building

In its fiscal third quarter, Qualcomm demonstrated strong financial performance, driven by its continued success in diversifying its business beyond mobile handsets into sectors like automotive, IoT, and PCs. With its focus on innovation, particularly in AI and advanced computing, Qualcomm is well-positioned to sustain its leadership across various industries.

Research Note: Western Digital FQ4 2024 Earnings

WD FQ4 2024 Earnings

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) reported strong financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2024, highlighting robust performance across its product segments and strategic advancements in the storage market, mainly driven by AI data demands.

Research Report: Solving AI Data Pipeline Inefficiencies, the VAST Data Way

AI Data Pipeline

While AI is foundational to the next wave of digital transformation, traditional data and storage infrastructure -even many parallel file systems- isn’t prepared for the demands required to support today’s AI lifecycle, which places unprecedented demands on storage and data infrastructure.

Developing an effective data infrastructure for AI requires a holistic approach, considering data, database, processing, and storage as a unified entity. This is how VAST Data approaches the challenge.

Quick Take: Azure’s Impact on Microsoft FQ4 2024 Earnings

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft closed its fiscal year with solid financial results, reporting a total annual revenue of more than $245 billion, a 15% year-over-year increase. Microsoft Cloud (which include Azure, LInkedIn, and Office 365) revenue surpassed $135 billion, growing 23% year-over-year.

Research Note: AMD Q2 2024 Data Center Earnings

AMD Q2 2024 Earnings

AMD reported strong Q2 financial results, with total revenue reaching $5.8 billion, a 9% year-over-year increase. The Data Center segment, a key driver of this performance, achieved a record revenue of $2.8 billion, reflecting a 115% year-over-year growth.

Backgrounder: State of CXL

CXL

Compute Express Link (CXL) is a high-speed interconnect standard designed to enhance communication between CPUs, GPUs, memory, and other accelerators. It’s designed to address the growing needs for efficient data sharing and coherent memory access in data centers, HPC, and AI-driven workloads.

Research Brief: Oracle Exadata on Exascale Infrastructure

Oracle SIgn

Oracle announced the general availability of the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, offering extreme performance, reliability, availability, and security for Oracle Database workloads. This new infrastructure is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), catering to any workload size for all Oracle Database customers.

Research Note: onsemi EliteSIC M3e MOSFET

onsemi m3e

onsemi’s new EliteSiC M3e MOSFETs address the growing demands for more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective power solutions across various industries. The increasing global focus on mitigating climate change and transitioning to renewable energy sources necessitates significant advancements in power semiconductor technology. onsemi’s latest generation EliteSiC M3e MOSFETs are a major step forward.  

Research Report: Impact of Storage Architecture on the AI Lifecycle

WEKA GenAI Pipeline

Traditional storage solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, often fail to meet the varying needs of each phase of the AI lifecycle. These legacy approaches are particularly ill-suited for the demands of distributed training, where keeping an expensive AI training cluster idle has a real economic impact on the enterprise.