Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of ‘chip neutrality’… but of course it’ll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In…

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Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of ‘chip neutrality’… but of course it’ll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be described as a warning shot to Jensen Huang’s business, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison said: “We are now committed to a policy of chip neutrality where we work closely with all our CPU and GPU suppliers.” In…

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These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I’ve ever seen

I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies work, rather than scratching my head at Wikipedia pages and Reddit ‘explain like I’m five’ threads that often seemed more like ‘explain like I’m an engineer’ ones. I think this is probably the best explanation of…

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