VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD

Nvidia has for years advanced the idea of an “AI Factory,” and now its partner VMware has created a product with the same name that does most of the same things, but with one vastly important difference: it uses AMD hardware. VMware was an early supporter of Nvidia in the enterprise and long ago created tools to virtualize GPUs. Nvidia needed that help because its hardware was very expensive even before the generative AI boom, so using virtualization to allow higher utilization rates just made sense. The two companies stayed close and in 2023 combined to announce “VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia”, a bundle that includes the myriad tools needed to run inference workloads, plus tools to help AI departments automate and...

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