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Choice is a beautiful thing. That’s particularly true when you’re a company that’s building products intended to meet the very diverse needs of a wide range of customers. So, it’s not surprising to see Dell Technologies (NYSE:
Dell Showcases Silicon Diversity In AI Server And PC
Summary
- At the Dell Technologies World event, Dell announced products that include AI accelerator chips from AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm across its line of servers and PCs.
- Not only is Dell offering new AI Factory configurations of its PowerEdge XE9780 and XE9785 line of servers with Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra chips - both liquid-cooled and air-cooled - the company is also among the first to support Nvidia’s new RTX Pro architecture.
- One of the most intriguing announcements is actually on the PC side, via the launch of its new Dell Pro Max Plus portable workstation, which includes the first implementation of a discrete NPU - the Qualcomm A100 - in a mobile PC.
- In addition to these hardware compute advancements, Dell announced several important new software-based data access capabilities for its various Dell AI Factory server platforms via what it’s calling the Dell AI Data Platform.
- The approach Dell is taking reflects the increasing momentum and growing sophistication of offerings to hit the server and PC markets. After years of negative growth, enterprise servers, in particular, are starting to see a renaissance of interest once again.
Bob O’Donnell is the founder and chief analyst of TECHnalysis Research, LLC a technology consulting and market research firm that provides strategic consulting and market research services to the technology industry and professional financial community. You can follow him on Twitter @bobodtech.