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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

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Device spending, which will be more than double the size of data center spending, will largely be driven by replacements for the laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other hardware purchased during the work-from-home, study-from-home, entertain-at-home era of 2020 and 2021, Lovelock says. growth in device spending.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

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EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

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Unlike conventional chips, theirs was destined for devices at the edge, particularly those running AI workloads, because Del Maffeo and the rest of the team perceived that most offline, at-the-edge computing hardware was inefficient and expensive. The edge AI hardware market is projected to grow from 920 million units in 2021 to 2.08

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Navigating the future of national tech independence with sovereign AI

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Core challenges for sovereign AI Resource constraints Developing and maintaining sovereign AI systems requires significant investments in infrastructure, including hardware (e.g., Many countries face challenges in acquiring or developing the necessary resources, particularly hardware and energy to support AI capabilities.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .”

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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage

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In generative AI, data is the fuel, storage is the fuel tank and compute is the engine. All this data means that organizations adopting generative AI face a potential, last-mile bottleneck, and that is storage. Novel approaches to storage are needed because generative AI’s requirements are vastly different.

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Nvidia points to the future of AI hardware

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Blackwell will also allow enterprises with very deep pockets to set up AI factories, made up of integrated compute resources, storage, networking, workstations, software, and other pieces. But Nvidia’s many announcements during the conference didn’t address a handful of ongoing challenges on the hardware side of AI.

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