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The Hidden Economics of AI Infrastructure: Why Network Disaggregation Matters More Than Ever

IntroductionThe AI expansion phase is in full swing, with companies pouring hundreds of billions into GPU clusters. While the spotlight stays on compute, many business models are forming in the network layer from fully integrated and pre-validated designs, to best-of-breed DIY, to everything in between. As AI models explode in… Read More »The Hidden Economics of AI Infrastructure: Why Network Disaggregation Matters More Than Ever

Taiwan Trade Deal Featuring More TSMC Chip Plants in the US is a Big Deal

New FABs Were Needed to Keep Pace with the AI Boom TSMC’s Arizona expansion is gaining momentum, with recent reports indicating a significant ramp-up tied to evolving U.S.-Taiwan trade discussions. The chip giant has already brought its first fab online in late 2024, with a second facility accelerated for 3nm… Read More »Taiwan Trade Deal Featuring More TSMC Chip Plants in the US is a Big Deal

AMD Keynote: Responding to the Needs of Existing and Future Hyperscalers

We attended the very upbeat AMD Advancing AI 2025 Keynote with its CEO, Lisa Su.  Guests included hardware partners such as xAI, Meta, Oracle, HUMAIN, Microsoft, and OpenAI.  The company announced that its MI355-series GPU ships commercially in 3Q25 and previewed its MI4xx-series, which it expects to ship in 2026. … Read More »AMD Keynote: Responding to the Needs of Existing and Future Hyperscalers

Networking for AI represents Huge and Growing Part of DC CAPEX as Scale-up, Scale-out; Front-end Networks Support the Surge in Demand for AI Applications

Strong NVIDIA Momentum in Networking for AI in 2024, Led by NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, Also Surging NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Sales 2024 was an exciting year for AI. Overall spending on AI equipment in the data center blew past $200B in 2024 as larger Hyperscalers, new cloud startups, sovereigns, and pretty… Read More »Networking for AI represents Huge and Growing Part of DC CAPEX as Scale-up, Scale-out; Front-end Networks Support the Surge in Demand for AI Applications

Deep Observability Market Exceeds $200M in 1H24, On Pace to Approach $500M for Full-Year 2024

Deep Observability Market Forecast to Approach $2B by 2029 The last few months of the Observability market have been dominated by Cisco closing its acquisition of Splunk and incorporating Splunk into its broad Cisco networking and security portfolios. In doing so, Cisco is reprioritizing the security and observability components of… Read More »Deep Observability Market Exceeds $200M in 1H24, On Pace to Approach $500M for Full-Year 2024

Massive June-July 2024 Announcement Slate Pushes Ethernet into Dominant Position in AI Networking

Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, DriveNets and NVIDIA All Message the Growing Importance of Ethernet Products The past two months were busy for AI Ethernet Providers, with announcements showcasing new products and providing historical revenue growth forecasts. Overall, the announcements highlight the long-term growth of AI Networking into a $30+B market by… Read More »Massive June-July 2024 Announcement Slate Pushes Ethernet into Dominant Position in AI Networking

RDMA Networks Are a Key Enabler to AI/ML Deployments

RDMA Networking Market to Exceed $22B by 2028 The build-out of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) data centers is increasing capital intensity and changing how all customers build data centers. Networking for back-end and front-end networks plays a crucial role in maximizing the capabilities of these new data centers.… Read More »RDMA Networks Are a Key Enabler to AI/ML Deployments

Arrcus Highlights Strong AI/ML platform for Ethernet Switches

Ethernet Switches Deployed into AI/ML Use Case Expected to Exceed $10B by 2028; Grow at over 100% CAGR 2023 saw robust AI/ML networking growth, with InfiniBand and Ethernet networking surging. AI/ML deployments rapidly increased throughout the year as operators built out massive training clusters and began deploying inference engines to… Read More »Arrcus Highlights Strong AI/ML platform for Ethernet Switches