Best Oxide Computer Company Podcasts (2025)

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Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria 1:31:22

4d ago1:31:22

1:31:22

Matthew Sanabria joins Bryan and Adam to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer--and how it fits in with engineering, sales, support and marketing. It takes everyone in Busytown! Sound good? Apply! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Matthew Sanabria. Some of the topics we hit on, …

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Shootout at the CNCF Corral 1:23:19

10d ago1:23:19

1:23:19

Last week the kerfuffle between Synadia and CNCF, tussling over the ownership and futures of NATS, bled into the public. The outcome may cast a long shadow for open source and for the CNCF. Bryan and Adam were joined by Rachel Stephens and Adam Jacob to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal,…

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Bringing up Cosmo 1:55:34

17d ago1:55:34

1:55:34

Oxide is bringing up its next generation server. To discuss the (amazingly smooth) bringup process, Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the oxide team. Tales of adversity, re-work, un-re-work, and triumph! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues Nathanael Huffman, Ian Sobering, Matt Keeter, and Aaro…

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Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac 1:27:09

24d ago1:27:09

1:27:09

Bryan and Adam have been gushing for months over Character Limit, the fantastic book by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about Elon Musk's haphazard and disastrous takeover of Twitter. They're joined by the authors themselves to discuss the book, Musk, DOGE, and some of the Character Limit unreleased B-sides. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventha…

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Hell is other networks 1:27:17

1M ago1:27:17

1:27:17

An Oxide customer encountered a peculiar issue at the intersection of their Oxide network and their broader network. Bryan and Adam were joined by several members of the Oxide team who collaborated to investigate and--ultimately--solve the problem using a combination of tooling, intuition, and dark knowledge. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam …

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Raiding the Minibar 1:52:28

1M ago1:52:28

1:52:28

Much of the work at Oxide goes into hardware and software used to build and test the eventual product. Bryan and Adam were joined by Ian, Doug, and Nathanael to talk about "Minibar", a rig for connecting up an Oxide server (code name: Gimlet) for manufacturing and internal use. Triumphs and catastrophes including stabbing a connector with a guide p…

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Lip-Bu Tan's Intel 1:22:48

2M ago1:22:48

1:22:48

Intel has a new CEO! And it's Lip-Bu Tan. We had assumed it would not be Lip-Bu--he was such a clear front-runner that the more time passed the less likely it seemed it would be him... and yet! Bryan and Adam were joined by Reuter's Max Cherney to discuss. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our esteemed guest was Max Cherney; we were…

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A Happy Day For Rust 1:20:21

2M ago1:20:21

1:20:21

Recently, a change to a utility in the Rust toolchain changed behavior in a way that impacted users. Rather than being a story of frustration and aspersions, it was a story of a community working... and working well together! Bryan and Adam were joined by Dirkjan Ochtman (of the rustup team) and Steve Klabnik to discuss. In addition to Bryan Cantri…

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A Crate is Born 1:43:09

2M ago1:43:09

1:43:09

Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues Andrew, Rain, and John to talk about creating a general purpose crate for diffing structures. More generally, how do you know when something new is needed? How do you know when the investment of time to validate an idea is warranted? Software engineering is hard! (And also: general enthusiasm for Rust …

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Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces 1:48:52

2M ago1:48:52

1:48:52

The value of transparency in engineering can have huge benefits--nothing can compare to the momentum of an enthusiastic community! Bryan and Adam discuss the value of transparency at the hardware/software interface with Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow. Transparency can be scary--especially in the hardware domain where secrecy is the norm--but once…

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A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup 1:57:20

3M ago1:57:20

1:57:20

Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley through the lens of Randy's 50 years--as the child of graphics legend, Dick Shoup; an intern at Intel; aspiring diplomat; engineering leader; and father to the next generation of Shoup engineers.By Oxide Computer Company

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Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız 1:32:55

3M ago1:32:55

1:32:55

Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam were joined by Orhun Parmaksız, who leads the project, to discuss the glory--as well as the ubiquity and utility!--of TUIs. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Orhun Parmaksız. We were also joined by slightly-less-s…

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AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras 1:31:20

3M ago1:31:20

1:31:20

DeepSeek was a disruptive surprise at the start of 2025--an open weights model trained at a fraction of the cost of previous models. Bryan and Adam were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras, whose wafer-scale silicon executes these models faster than is possible with any number of GPUs. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, …

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Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi 1:50:43

4M ago1:50:43

1:50:43

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Robert Mustacchi. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS Meltdown and Spectre Robert's "Big Theory Statement" for MAC Robert's "Big Theory Statement" for cpuid AGESA OxF: Put the OS back in OSDI Oxide RFD 63:…

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Crates We Love 1:33:13

4M ago1:33:13

1:33:13

Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve from the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about the crates we love. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rain Paharia, Eliza Weisman, and Steve Klabnik. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: pr…

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Predictions 2025 2:01:58

4M ago2:01:58

2:01:58

The annual predictions tradition returns for 2025! Bryan and Adam were joined by Simon Willison, Mike Cafarella, Steve Tuck, and Steve Klabnik to review past predictions and look 1-, 3-, and 6-years into the future. See the table of predictions on GitHub.By Oxide Computer Company

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OxF 2024 Wrap-Up 1:33:54

4M ago1:33:54

1:33:54

Bryan and Adam look back on the year of Oxide and Friends episodes, reflecting on favorite shows, moments, and (at length) cover images. Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Oxide and Friends 2024 in Images OxF: Musing With Changelog's Adam Stacoviak OxF: I know this! OxF: W…

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Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee 1:40:38

5M ago1:40:38

1:40:38

Paul Frazee joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the inner workings of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Paul and the Bluesky team have been working on decentralized systems for years and years--very cool to see both the next evolutionary step in those ideas and their successful application in Bluesky! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and…

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Conferences in Tech 1:30:09

5M ago1:30:09

1:30:09

Bryan and Adam were joined by Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady to talk about conferences in tech. A lot has changed in the past couple of decades about the impetus for conferences and what makes it worthwhile to attend. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatr…

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Intel after Gelsinger 1:50:43

5M ago1:50:43

1:50:43

Holy Sh**! Pat Gelsinger announced his "retirement" leaving a rudderless Intel without a captain. How did Intel get here? Some of the cultural problems may be deep in the DNA. Bryan and Adam have some ideas for what happens next, and who might be the next CEO. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Ian Grunert. Some of …

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Technical Blogging 1:40:27

6M ago1:40:27

1:40:27

Bryan and Adam were joined by authors of the forthcoming book "Writing for Developers", Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop, to talk about blogging--for Bryan and Adam, it's been 20 years since they started blogging at Sun. The Oxide Friends were also joined by Tim Bray and Will Snow who kicked off blogging at Sun. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam…

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Books in the Box IV 1:34:32

6M ago1:34:32

1:34:32

The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversion into Crimson Twins, Tomax and Xamot, Bryan and Adam are joined by several Oxide Friends to discuss their favorite recent reads. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nick Gideo, Josh, Ian Grunert, Tom Lyon, Zander, and…

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Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino) 1:53:36

7M ago1:53:36

1:53:36

George Cozma of Chips and Cheese joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about AMD's new 5th generation EPYC processor, codename: Turin. What's new in Turin and how is Oxide's Turin-based platform coming along? In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest George Cozma, as well as Oxide colleagues Rober…

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Querying Metrics with OxQL 1:35:14

7M ago1:35:14

1:35:14

Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleague, Ben Naecker, to talk about OxQL--the Oxide Query Language we've developed for interacting with our metrics system. Yes, another query language, and, yes, we're DSL maximalists, but listen in before you accuse us of simple NIH! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxid…

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RTO or GTFO 1:39:35

8M ago1:39:35

1:39:35

With Amazon's return to office (RTO) mandate in the news, Bryan and Adam revisit the topic (it's been 2.5 years since last time!). Are in-office epiphanies real or is RTO fueled by nostalgia, fear... and finance? Stay tuned / we apologize for the exposition on in-office games. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included frie…

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Reflecting on Founder Mode 1:22:14

8M ago1:22:14

1:22:14

With some time passed, Bryan and Adam offer a non-hot take on Paul Graham's "Founder Mode" post. While there is plenty to quibble over, there's also the kernel of an important idea: how to balance experience, novel thinking, and limited time? Also stay tuned as they share a years old "ego con". Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal. Som…

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RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide 1:42:09

8M ago1:42:09

1:42:09

RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical design, hardware component selection, changes in process, culture, interview systems, (even) chat--we have RFDs for all of these, over 500 in a bit under 5 years. Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues instrumental to RFDs, from their most prolifi…

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Whither CockroachDB? 1:34:07

9M ago1:34:07

1:34:07

Lots of engineering decisions get made on vibes. Popularity, anecdotes—they can lead to expedient decisions rather than rigorous ones. At Oxide, our choice to go with CockroachDB was hardly hasty! Dave Pacheco joins Bryan and Adam to talk about why we choose CRDB… and how Cockroach Lab’s recent switch to a proprietary license impacts that. In addit…

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The Saga of Sagas 1:57:57

9M ago1:57:57

1:57:57

The Oxide control plane coordinates multiple services to do complex, compound operations. Early on, we knew we wanted to provide a robust structure for these multi-part workflows. We stumbled onto Distributed Sagas and built our own implementation in Steno. Bryan and Adam are joined by several members of the Oxide team who built and use Steno to dr…

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Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini 1:33:12

9M ago1:33:12

1:33:12

Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great advice about when to use them (often!) and what kinds of problems they handle well. LLMs aren't great at many things, but used well they can be an amazing tool. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Le…

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CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris 1:41:56

10M ago1:41:56

1:41:56

Bryan and Adam were joined by security expert, Katie Moussouris, to discuss the largest global IT outage in history. It was an event as broadly impactful as it will be instructive; as Bryan noted, you can see all of computing from here, from crash dumps to antitrust. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest …

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Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri 1:54:19

10M ago1:54:19

1:54:19

Raja Koduri joined Bryan and Adam to answer a question sent in from a listener: what's are the differences between a CPU, GPU, FPGA, and ASIC? And after a walk through history of hardware, software, their intersection and relevant companies, we ... almost answered it! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Raja Kodu…

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Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors 1:26:24

10M ago1:26:24

1:26:24

Charity Majors joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the idea of "innovation tokens"--a fixed budget for, so called, "innovative" projects. When is boring better and when is innovation the safer approach? Is Oxide issuing innovation tokens in some sort of hyper-inflationary cycle!? In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal,…

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Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? 1:28:58

11M ago1:28:58

1:28:58

Every so often we like to give our Oxide and Friends hot takes (or as Adam puts it "Bryan getting trolled on Twitter"). This time, a viral tweet suggests that NVIDIA is on the same trajectory as Sun Microsystems on its ascent during the Dot Com Bubble. From two alumni of Sun's rise and fall: maaaaybe not. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leve…

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Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak 1:46:50

11M ago1:46:50

1:46:50

Bryan and Adam were joined by The Changelog’s Adam Stacoviak for a … wide ranging conversation! Something for everyone—especially fans of HBO’s Silicon Valley! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Adam Stacoviak. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Bryan on Changelog Changelog: 2…

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Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later 1:40:34

12M ago1:40:34

1:40:34

Back in May 2014 Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter (not just the handful of nodes as intended!). That incident--traumatic was it was--informed many aspects of the Oxide product. Bryan and Adam were joined by members of that former Joyent team to discuss, commiserate, and--perhaps--get some things off their chests. a live show weekly…

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Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball 1:50:39

12M ago1:50:39

1:50:39

The long-awaited Oxide and Friends bookclub! Bryan and Adam were joined by special guest--and real life biologist--Greg Cost to discuss Philip Ball's terrific book, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Spoiler: Alan Turing makes a very expected appearance! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special gue…

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All we have to fear is FUD itself 1:21:01

1y ago1:21:01

1:21:01

The Oxide Friends have talked about the Hashicorp license change, the emergence of an open source fork of Terraform in OpenTofu, and other topics in open source. A few weeks ago both InfoWorld and Hashicorp (independently?) accused OpenTofu of stealing Terraform code—a serious claim that turned out to be fully unfounded. We (you!) have been lucky t…

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A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel 1:13:11

1y ago1:13:11

1:13:11

Bryan, Adam, Steve, and the Oxide Friends are joined by the founders of the Oakland Ballers, the continuation of a long history of baseball in Oakland. There turns out to be a plenty in common between founding a computer company and founding a baseball team--and we both have our fans supporting us! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, …

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Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund 1:37:17

1y ago1:37:17

1:37:17

Andres Freund joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incredible story… so great to get into the details with Andres. We started by ranting about the coverage in the New York Times… coverage that explicitly refused to dig into the details! It’s all the more shocking because the big story here is how Andres’ pen…

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Cultural Idiosyncrasies 1:27:17

1y ago1:27:17

1:27:17

The Oxide Friends talk about about cultural idiosyncrasies--turns out we have a lot of them at Oxide! Some might even sound good enough for you to try out! Demo Fridays, morning water-cooler, no-meet Wednesdays, recorded meetings, dog-pile debugging (aka CSPAN for debugging), RFDs (requests for discussion), no performance review process... In addit…

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Adversarial Machine Learning 1:23:30

1y ago1:23:30

1:23:30

Nicholas Carlini joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about his work with adversarial machine learning. He's found sequences of--seemingly random--tokens that cause LLMs to ignore their restrictions! Also: printf is Turing complete?! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Nicholas Carlini. If …

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Data Visualization 1:25:52

1y ago1:25:52

1:25:52

Data visualization is an important--and overlooked!--tool in the software engineer's tool belt. Bryan describes a recent journey with gnuplot while Oxide colleague, Charlie Park, shares his own experience with data visualization and Adam offers a visual analysis of Simpsons episodes. Stay tuned to the end to find out about the Oxide and Friends boo…

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Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service 1:38:40

1y ago1:38:40

1:38:40

Bryan and Adam are joined by members of the Oxide storage team--Josh, Alan, James, and Matt--to talk about Crucible, the service that provides block storage for VM instances running in the Oxide Rack. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Alan Hanson, James MacMahon, and Matt Keeter. Some …

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Innovation Stagnation? 1:00:44

1+ y ago1:00:44

1:00:44

Sometimes Bryan gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to Adam and the Oxide Friends. This was a well-crafted troll: is innovation slowing? Are the most interesting problems solved. In a word: no. For many more words, listen in! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Steve Klabnik. Some of the topics we hit on, in the or…

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Helios 1:47:50

1+ y ago1:47:50

1:47:50

Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to discuss Helios, the operating system that runs on the Oxide Rack. Helios is a distro of illumos (derived from OpenSolaris, derived from Solaris, etc.). What's a distro? Why did Oxide choose illumos? Plenty of cross-generational appeal in this episode! So…

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What's taking so long?! 1:35:10

1+ y ago1:35:10

1:35:10

We love Rust at Oxide, but the haters aren’t wrong: builds can be slow. Bryan and Adam are joined by Sean Klein, Rain Paharia, and Steve Klabnik to discuss techniques for analyzing and accelerating Rust builds. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Sean Klein, Rain Paharia, and the illustrious Steve Klabnik. Some of th…

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Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison 1:33:19

1+ y ago1:33:19

1:33:19

Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a recent article maligning open source large language models. Simon has so much practical experience with LLMs, and brings so much clarity to what they can and can’t do. How do these systems work? How do they break? What are open and proprietary LLMs out there? Recorded 1/15/2024 We've been hosting a …

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Predictions 2024! 1:56:39

1+ y ago1:56:39

1:56:39

Bryan and Adam are joined by MIT Research Scientist, Michael Cafarella, for our annual predictions episode where we check in on past predictions and gaze 1-, 3-, and 6- years into the future. No surprise: there were a lot of AI-related predictions. Big surprise: many of them came from Bryan … and with unabashed optimism! Recorded 1/8/2024 Bryan Can…

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AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute 1:14:01

1+ y ago1:14:01

1:14:01

George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review joined Adam, Bryan, and the Oxide Friends to discuss AMD’s recent MI300 announcement and the implications to accelerated to compute. The MI300A particularly caught our eye--CPU and GPU chiplets on in the same package! Bryan pronounced ML "the biggest thing since the spreadshee…

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