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In this August installation of the reThink Podcast Silicon Futures analyst corner, neXt Curve's Leonard Lee and Karl Freund of Cambrian AI Research are joined by Jim McGregor of Tirias Research to talk about the hot topics of the month and Hot Chips 2024.

Karl, Jim, and I cover the following agenda:

🎱 Hot Chips 2024 overture by Jim (2:44)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - Less of the new and more of the details (5:00)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - Deep dive on Oryon and Gerard Williams III's design philosophy (6:05)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - Balance (8:21)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - IBM Telum II bringing GenAI to the mainframe (9:48)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - Enfabrica: for resilient AI training? (13:30)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - Co-packaged optics for AI interconnect and networking (15:45)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - Where should AI be used in chip design? (16:25)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - The case for liquid-cooled data centers (17:02)
🎱 Hot Chips 2024 Take - NVIDIA Quasar Quantization System (19:03)
🎱 Demystifying AMD's acquisition of ZT Systems (24:20)
🎱 NVIDIA's Blackwell "Delay" takes from Jim and Karl (29:35)
🎱 Intel Gaudi 3 lands in IBM Cloud (32:44)

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Check out Jim and his research at Tirias Research at www.tiriasresearch.com.
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AMD recently announced their intent to acquire ZT Systems, a data center systems integrator and ODM based in Secaucus, NJ for $4.9 billion. On the surface, the deal looks like a curious one. Jack Gold, Principal Analyst at J.Gold Associates and tech industry colleague recently posted his thoughts on the nature, the benefits, and the implications of the acquisition. In many ways, this is a move that AMD was not likely to make but it may prove essential in upping their GenAI supercomputing game in their race against NVIDIA.

Jack and I cover the following agenda:

🎱 A little about the AMD + ZT Systems deal (3:13)
🎱 What does it mean for AMD and their play to compete with Nvidia? (9:39)
🎱 How will it impact Intel and others in the GenAI supercomputing race? (16:19)

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Debbie Reynolds of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC joins Leonard Lee of neXt Curve on the reThink Podcast to coin and discuss what we believe will be a new problem that will impact out digital lives and businesses and digital advertising - Synthetic Engagement. Debbie and Leonard talk about how agentic generative AI applications are already flooding GenAI-fabricated engagement on social platforms which will inevitably have impact on the digital advertising and marketing. We ask the question, what are bot-to-bot engagement worth?

Leonard and The Data Diva parse through the implications of Synthetic Engagement that matter:

• What is Synthetic Engagement? (1:50)
• The problem with Agentic GenAI (6:15)
• What is synthetic engagement worth to advertisers? (9:50)
• A coming crisis of authenticity and trust on social platforms (16:46)
• What is the price we should pay for trust? (18:45)
• What are the potential impacts of synthetic engagement on the future of digital advertising and marketing? (24:42)

Connect with Debbie Reynolds at www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com

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