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2 months ago | semianalysis.com | Dylan Patel |Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros |Daniel Nishball |Reyk Knuhtsen

Cluster deployments are an order of magnitude larger in scale with Gigawatt-scale datacenters coming online at full capacity much faster than most believe. As such, there are considerable design changes that Datacenter developers planning future sites must consider. We previously covered the Electrical system of Datacenters and how the rise of Generative AI is impacting datacenter design and equipment suppliers.

2 months ago | semianalysis.com | Jeff Koch |Dylan Patel

The semiconductor industry isn’t built on overnight breakthroughs. It’s built on large leaps of progress, compounding year after year, at a higher rate than probably any other industry in history. The International Electron Device Manufacturing conference IEDM is one of the key venues where chipmakers can show off this progress. Paper topics range from commercially relevant, those that could eventually be, and others that probably won’t be but are interesting technology anyways.

2 months ago | semianalysis.com | Dylan Patel |AJ Kourabi |Doug O'Laughlin |Reyk Knuhtsen

DeepSeek took the world by storm. For the last week, DeepSeek has been the only topic that anyone in the world wants to talk about. As it currently stands, DeepSeek daily traffic is now much higher than Claude, Perplexity, and even Gemini. But to close watchers of the space, this is not exactly “new” news. We have been talking about DeepSeek for months (each link is an example). The company is not new, but the obsessive hype is.

Jan 15, 2025 | semianalysis.com | Dylan Patel |Daniel Nishball |Myron Xie |AJ Kourabi

The US government lobbed the largest salvo in the new technology cold war with its new Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion. These new export restrictions are completely unprecedented in scope and scale, with many calling the efforts overzealous or misguided. The regulation at its core is targeted at preventing China from accessing AI compute to build frontier models.

Dec 24, 2024 | semianalysis.com | Dylan Patel

Merry Christmas has come thanks to Santa Huang. Despite Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU’s having multiple delays, discussed here, and numerous times through the Accelerator Model due to silicon, packaging, and backplane issues, that hasn’t stopped Nvidia from continuing their relentless march. They are bringing to market a brand-new GPU only 6 months after GB200 & B200, titled GB300 & B300. While on the surface it sounds incremental, there’s a lot more than meets the eye.