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xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, Unique RL Methodology, Capital Raise Semiconductor Industry

xAI’s Colossus 2 – First Gigawatt Datacenter In The World, …

Much has been written about xAI’s Colossus 1. The Memphis build belongs in the history books: the largest AI training cluster, erected from scratch in...

3 months, 4 weeks ago SemiAnalysis
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Another Giant Leap: The Rubin CPX Specialized Accelerator & Rack Semiconductor Industry

Another Giant Leap: The Rubin CPX Specialized Accelerator &…

Nvidia announced the Rubin CPX, a solution that is specifically designed to be optimized for the prefill phase, with the single-die Rubin CPX heavily...

4 months ago SemiAnalysis
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Huawei Ascend Production Ramp: Die Banks, TSMC Continued Production, HBM is The Bottleneck Semiconductor Industry

Huawei Ascend Production Ramp: Die Banks, TSMC Continued Pr…

Compute is the lifeblood of AI. He who controls the spice controls the universe the compute will control the production of tokens and reap the benefit...

4 months, 1 week ago SemiAnalysis
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Amazon’s AI Resurgence: AWS & Anthropic’s Multi-Gigawatt Trainium Expansion Semiconductor Industry

Amazon’s AI Resurgence: AWS & Anthropic’s Multi-Gigawatt Tr…

Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, ge...

4 months, 1 week ago SemiAnalysis
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H100 vs GB200 NVL72 Training Benchmarks – Power, TCO, and Reliability Analysis, Software Improvement Over Time Semiconductor Industry

H100 vs GB200 NVL72 Training Benchmarks – Power, TCO, and R…

Frontier model training has pushed GPUs and AI systems to their absolute limits, making cost, efficiency, power, performance per TCO, and reliability...

4 months, 3 weeks ago SemiAnalysis
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GPT-5 Set the Stage for Ad Monetization and the SuperApp Semiconductor Industry

GPT-5 Set the Stage for Ad Monetization and the SuperApp

To many power users (Pro and Plus), GPT5 was a disappointing release. But with closer inspection, the real release is focused on the vast majority of...

5 months ago SemiAnalysis
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Scaling the Memory Wall: The Rise and Roadmap of HBM Semiconductor Industry

Scaling the Memory Wall: The Rise and Roadmap of HBM

The first portion of this report will explain HBM, the manufacturing process, dynamics between vendors, KVCache offload, disaggregated prefill decode,...

5 months ago SemiAnalysis
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Robotics Levels of Autonomy Semiconductor Industry

Robotics Levels of Autonomy

Robots have powered manufacturing for decades, yet they stayed single-purpose and thrived only in perfect settings. Previous attempts at intelligent m...

5 months, 2 weeks ago SemiAnalysis
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Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not), China’s FlipFET, Digital Twins from Atoms to Fabs, and More Semiconductor Industry

Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backsid…

Long time readers will recall that SemiAnalysis covers more than just datacenters and AMD. Today we’re back to semiconductors with a tech-focused roun...

5 months, 3 weeks ago SemiAnalysis
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Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data Semiconductor Industry

Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Da…

Meta’s shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. Despite s...

6 months ago SemiAnalysis
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