Oracle Spending 'Billions' on Nvidia Chips This Year, Ellison Says

Oracle is spending "billions" of dollars on chips from Nvidia as it expands a cloud computing service targeting a new wave of artificial intelligence companies, Oracle founder and Chairman Larry Ellison said. From a report: Oracle's cloud division is working to gain ground against larger rivals such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. To get an edge, Oracle has focused on building fast networks that can shuffle around the huge amount of data needed to create AI systems similar to ChatGPT.

Oracle is also buying huge numbers of GPUs designed to crunch that data for AI work. Oracle is also spending "billions" of dollars on Nvidia chips but even more on CPUs from Ampere Computing, a chip startup it has invested in, and AMD, Ellison said at an Ampere event.

They need the Nvidia chips...

[thragnet]

to calculate Oracle's licensing schemes, which are not NP-complete.

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[alvinrod]

Knowing Larry he's been trying to make them impervious to quantum computers as well.

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[echo123]

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

Just ask Lanai, Hawaii.

Payday

[byronivs]

Larry must have got a bunch of cash from Oregon to have him fuck her again.

Who's Spending Billions On Oracle?

[zenlessyank]

That's what I thought.

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[sapgau]

Suddenly Oracle is leader in AI and Cloud services?
I think they are going to force their captive customers to route through their cloud and yes they will dominate that space.

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[xeoron]

They are just using a Redhat Clone to run their datacenter... anyone can do that themselves.

Who's NOT on first.

[Ostracus]

Oracle is also spending "billions" of dollars on Nvidia chips ...

*AMD sad face*

Re: Who's NOT on first.

[BadgerStork]

but even more on CPUs from Ampere Computing, a chip startup it has invested in, and AMD

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[Rei]

AMD's problems are of their own making by neglecting software support for GPU compute applications.

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[_merlin]

It's a problem they acquired with ATi - the Linux drivers for ATi GPUs (fglrx) were a joke.

I'd never suggest Oracle products

[Ecuador]

I'd never suggest Oracle products, but their compute cloud, especially their Ampere instances, are an insane value [dev.to] compared to pretty much every other provider.

Just great.

[bjwest]

We just got over the GPU shortage due to bitcoin, and now we get the AI version.

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[larryburden]

It's actually quite interesting how they're going to recoup all their financial investments. Indeed, following the example of other companies, we see that if you do not overtake competitors in the field of AI, you can go bankrupt. I want to note that as a student of economics college, I use the https://essays.edubirdie.com/f... [edubirdie.com] site to help in my assignments if the topic of my work is really difficult. I'm interested in the topic of business and finance and I'm wondering if Oracle will succeed in its AI rac

This is why Nvidia GPUs have sucked lately

[rsilvergun]

they don't need to cater to gamers anymore. I wish AMD could get their drivers sorted once and for all. Every time it looks they nailed it they run into something nasty. Most recently with default windows drivers overwriting the AMD ones (it hit my RX 580 after about 3 years of problem free use...). Intel's offerings are great for new games (and systems, since it requires resizable BAR) but they're a disaster with a lot of older games...

Nvidia can get away with a lot because if you just want to game w/o worrying they're still your only option.

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[KiloByte]

The BAR is mostly a matter of the motherboard's firmware, thus you'd better check if there's an update for your BIOS. There's one for mine [asrock.com] despite updates having long gone dry otherwise.

And stability wise, Arc A380 is worlds better than RX590. That's with current kernel, dunno about Windows. And for Nvidia, Linus' opinion is way too lenient.

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[rsilvergun]

Stability isn't the problem with Intel performance is. There's lots of old games that run at 1/2 to 1/3 the FPS they should given the card's specs is all.

I play a lot of older games so I'm a little gun shy. I am hoping it all gets sorted out though, and when I've got some spare cash I want to try an A770

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[G00F]

my issue is I prefer tha fastes card that doesnt require external power. AMD doesnt make one, last one they made was the 460 and that was lackluster (but good enough) nVidia has a diff one, but I'm a bit of AMD fanboy

I was told radeon rx 6500xt, but I haven't seen one without the external pins for power

But why Oracle?

[schweini]

Maybe I'm living in an opinion bubble, but is there any other IT vendor with as toxic a reputation as Oracle?
I understand that many companies are stuck in Oracle-land, but why would anyone want to get in bed with Oracle with new stuff like AI?

What does a database need an AI for?

[thesjaakspoiler]

As an add-on to make it look sexy or so?

Could Oracle have built their own GPUs?

[buzz_mccool]

Six years ago in the summer of 2017, Larry Ellison released the 5.0 Ghz, 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M8 microprocessor - and then promptly shuttered his Oracle Microelectronics division.

The M8 included 32 Data Analytics Accelerator engines (DAX), that is 8 DAX units per processor. Couldn't you have AI accelerators just as well? (OK, waiving a magic wand here, but you get the idea.)

I'm still flummoxed as to why that group was shut down and not at least spun off in some form, especially since they are spen