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In this podcast, learn about the challenges of silicon advancement, the importance of advanced packaging, and how Lam is driving breakthroughs to support the future of AI and chiplet ecosystems.

This week, Contextual AI partnered with WEKA to deliver enterprise AI services on Google Cloud using RAG 2.0 from Facebook AI Research. WEKA's platform boosted performance, achieving a 3X increase in key AI use cases, 4X faster model checkpointing, and reduced costs.

Data center industry veteran Lynn Comp shares insights from her career, discussing the importance of adaptability, emotional IQ, and practical tech. She highlights three patterns: customers prefer reliability over high-performance solutions, network limitations can negate compute power, and economic realities can override technological enthusiasm.

The upcoming OCP Summit in October will feature nineteen top-tier sponsors, up from just three in previous years, highlighting OCP’s role in AI infrastructure innovation. TechArena is excited to be a media sponsor, covering sustainable infrastructure, Sonic’s future, memory advancements, and power and cooling solutions with daily podcasts, video interviews, and stories.

In this blog post, industry veteran Jim Fister explores the evolution of data centers from early 2000s servers to modern AI/ML racks. Highlighting engineering and logistical challenges, he emphasizes the need for ongoing innovation and celebrates engineers while anticipating future advancements to meet increasing power demands.

Join host Allyson Klein in this insightful episode of Tech Arena, featuring Eric Dahlen from Intel and Alex Rakow from Schneider Electric. As co-chairs of the Compute Sustainability group within the Open Compute Project, Eric and Alex discuss their roles, the initiative's goals, and the impact of AI on data center sustainability. They delve into the challenges and innovations in power and cooling technologies, embodied carbon, and circularity practices. Get a sneak peek into what to expect at the upcoming OCP Summit and how industry leaders are pushing the boundaries of sustainable technology.

TechArena spoke to over a dozen industry experts from OVH, Qarnot, PLVision, ZeroPoint Technologies, the Research Institutes of Sweden, London South Bank University, and the Open Compute Project to publish this comprehensive report on the state of open compute infrastructure innovation and how organizations should align data center planning and oversight with sustainability and performance objectives. If you manage an IT organization or oversee data center infrastructure, software, or sustainability initiatives, this report offers practical value for your organization.

TechArena’s take on Microsoft Build announcement of the world’s first MI300X instances arriving on Azure AI.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Microsoft’s Vice President of Azure AI and HPC Infrastructure, Nidhi Chappell, in advance of Microsoft Build 2024. Nidhi shares how her organization is accelerating deployments of critical technology to fuel the insatiable demand for AI around the world and how Microsoft’s AI tools including co-pilot, Open AI and more have been met with overwhelming engagement from developers. She also talks about Microsoft’s silicon plans and strategic collaborations with NVIDIA and AMD.

TechArena’s take on a recent Data Insights conversation featuring Supermicro and Solidigm on how Supermicro’s solutions are targeting AI data pipeline requirements and the role SSDs play in delivering high performance, efficiency and density for Supermicro solutions.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Research Institute of Sweden’s Jon Summers about the latest research his team has conducted on efficient infrastructure and data center buildout in the wake of massive data center growth for the AI era.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Palo Alto Electron CEO Jawad Nasrullah about his vision for an open chiplet economy, the semiconductor manufacturing hurdles standing in the way of broad chiplet market delivery, and how he plans to play a role in shaping this next evolution of the semiconductor landscape.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Carsten Brinkshulte, CEO of Dryad Networks, about his company’s mesh network solution aimed at alerting forest fires before ignition, how his team tapped IOT and AI technology to develop their solution, and his aim to deploy hundreds of thousands of sensors in forests across the globe in 2024.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Varnish CTO Frank Miller about his company’s innovation in delivering media at the edge.

TechArena’s take on Cellnex’s 5GMed trial, why the EU is involved in testing x-border 5G connectivity, and how this influences things like autonomous transport in Europe.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Cellnex’s Jose Lopez Luque about the EU funded 5G MED project testing service resiliency across borders to fuel low latency use cases like autonomous driving, and how his company is poised to deliver efficient and scalable services for broad deployments in 2024.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Fermyon CEO Matt Butcher about cloud redundancy’s impact to sustainability, and how his organization is delivering new serverless AI capabilities help usher in a more sustainable computing future.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Project Inkblot co-founder Jahan Mantin about what it means to be a designer and how to build inclusive design practices.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Calyptia co-founder and CEO Eduardo Silva Pereira regarding how his company grew from the origins of the Fluent Bit open source effort favored by the largest cloud providers to deliver a full featured commercial solution for data observability.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with TechArena’s own technology strategist, Iddo Kadim, about the growing distribution of compute environments and infrastructure requirements to fuel continued innovation. This episode covers the topics of processor acceleration across CPU and GPU, different approaches to orchestration, and discussion of where workloads will land across a cloud to edge landscape. The experts also discuss lead usage models that will drive the upcoming TechArena report on distributed computing.

TechArena Technology Strategist Iddo Kadim shares his thoughts on a leading edge use case, live broadcast media, and the complexity of workload delivery on the world’s biggest stages.

TechArena Technology Strategist Iddo Kadim shares his reflections on the history of silicon leadership and how it helps inform where we stand in 2023.

The TechArena presents Edge 2023, Seven Strategies for Maximizing Organizational Return based on interviews with Arm, Avassa, Canonical, Cellnex, Dell, Future of Privacy Forum, Intel, MIT, Nvidia, Radware, Ribbon, Scale Computing, and Varnish Software.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Avassa CTO Carl Moberg about how his company is bringing application control to edge environments and how his team as designed solutions for both infrastructure operators and application developers.

Cornelis CEO Lisa Spelman joins Allyson Klein to explore how focus, agility, and culture can turn resource constraints into a strategic edge in the fast-moving AI infrastructure market.

Through digital twin modeling and hardware testing, this Ansys and Rohde & Schwarz collaboration empowers developers to optimize RF systems in lab environments with real-world fidelity.

After a DOJ settlement, HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition is set to close, paving the way for a new wave of AI-native networking innovation built for cloud, enterprise, and edge.

In this Data Insights episode, Andrew De La Torre discusses how Oracle is leveraging AIOps to enable automation and optimize operations, transforming the future of telecom.

In this episode of In the Arena, Palo Alto Networks’ Dharminder Debisarun explores the challenges of securing smart industries, preventing attacks, and staying ahead in an evolving threat landscape.

MWC is more than flashy demos—it’s where the future of AI, edge, and network automation takes shape. From agentic AI to fraud detection and public safety, these innovations are redefining real-world impact.

Silicon innovation is moving fast to meet AI’s growing demands. At MWC, industry leaders from AMD, Arm, Intel & more tackled edge AI, efficiency, and the urgency of accelerating AI in 5G networks.

AI, 5G, and network automation are reshaping telecom. In this episode, Keate Despain discusses anticipated trends at MWC 2025, from edge computing to the road to 6G, and what’s next for network innovation.

Explore how Accenture and Oracle are revolutionizing the telco industry with their new all-in-one BSS solution, enabling cloud-native innovation, AI integration, and new revenue opportunities for service providers.

In this Tech Arena episode, Allyson Klein interviews Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint, on internet monitoring, observability innovations, and AI's impact on automation. Discover their latest tools enhancing performance.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Muriel Medard from MIT about the trends in network innovation, how AI is infusing into telco, and the shaping of 6G.

TechArena’s host Allyson Klein reprises conversation at MWC24 with a talk with GlobalLogic’s SVP of Global Communication Services Business, Sameer Tikoo, about the future of AI in the network and how his firm is building solutions that meet swiftly evolving customer demands.

TechArena’s take on the Ampere Cloud Sustainability Event.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with leading climate researchers Jonathan Koomey and Ian Monroe to discuss their new book and how they're delivering a mandate to leaders to take action now.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Ampere CPO Jeff Wittich and HPE VP Peter Groth about their recently announced collaboration for cloud infrastructure optimized for compute sustainability.

TechArena host Allyson Klein chats with NASA research scientist Ryan Stauffer about how NASA's SHADOZ program measured increased stratospheric water vapor caused by the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption and its impact on Earth’s climate.

Tech Arena’s host Allyson Klein chats with NASA’s Megan Damon about her group’s study of global air pollution and its impact on climate change and human health.