Hardware

No Peeking: How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption

No Peeking: How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption

Imagine being able to use all the power of the cloud on your most sensitive data without ever revealing that data – not even to the cloud provider’s administrators. That’s the promise of confidential computing, a rapidly growing approach to cloud security.
August 11, 2025
Inside the $500‑Billion AI‑Chip Gold Rush: How Blackwell, Gaudi, Trainium & Friends Are Re‑Wiring the World in 2025

Inside the $500‑Billion AI‑Chip Gold Rush: How Blackwell, Gaudi, Trainium & Friends Are Re‑Wiring the World in 2025

1. Executive snapshot 2. What exactly is an AI accelerator? Category Typical role Leading examples (2025) GPU (general‑purpose but massively parallel) Training & inference NVIDIA B200, AMD MI350, Intel Falcon Shores ASIC (custom fixed‑function) Cloud training/inference Google TPU v5p, AWS Trainium2, Microsoft Maia 100 NPU / XPU
August 7, 2025