David Schmidt
Senior Director, Product Management, Servers · Dell Technologies
Position Evolution
3 tracked across this operator's appearancesSame operator, on the record, on the same topic, at different points in time. Each delta below is anchored to verbatim transcript spans verified against source — no paraphrases. This is the alumni-graph moat: SemiAnalysis cannot reproduce this query because they don't have the speaker-stable corpus.
AI workload deployment strategy
Hardenedconfidence 90%Schmidt's position on AI deployment has become more specific and technical. He now provides exact parameter counts (3.2 billion) and positions this as a practical alternative to large-scale AI systems, showing increased confidence in the small language model approach.
"And some of the white papers we've been publishing with AMD really demonstrate how you can run hundreds of users on a two socket, 192 core Turin- based PowerEdge, and you can serve hundreds of users with a chatbot in a small language model alongside it."
Source on theCUBE ↗"And so if you've got small language models, 3. 2 billion parameters, perhaps you can actually run those and serve hundreds of users on a single PowerEdge platform with two turing- based processors, for example. And we have white papers out that show how that's done."
Source on theCUBE ↗Data center power optimization
Shiftedconfidence 85%Schmidt's framing has shifted from predicting customer behavior around power optimization to observing that customers have already become deeply engaged with thermal engineering. The focus moved from future planning to current reality.
"We said, " Customers are going to optimize their power, they're going to provide more power to the rack, they're going to go liquid first and make sure that's part of their data center environment."
Source on theCUBE ↗"I find that this year, more than maybe the past five years combined, everything about power and thermals, everybody has become a thermal engineer to some extent and everybody understands how that's taking place."
Source on theCUBE ↗Rack-scale architecture positioning
Hardenedconfidence 80%Schmidt's messaging around rack-scale has evolved from highlighting technical specifications to emphasizing customer ROI and business justification. He now frames the M7725 as a proven solution driving actual data center investment decisions.
"It lets you get 27, 000 cores in a single rack deployment. Huge amount of cores"
Source on theCUBE ↗"And so as we look at some of our rack- scale type of architectures we announced last year, like the M7725, we're having them look at that platform and say, " Yeah, this makes sense to me because the investment or the return is good enough that I'm going to build a new data center."
Source on theCUBE ↗All theCUBE appearances (6)
Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready for the Age of AI? – NA | Dell Servers
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Senior Director, Product Management, Servers
Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready for the Age of AI? – NA | AMD
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Senior Director, Product Management, Servers
Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready for the Age of AI? – APJ | Dell Servers
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Senior Director, Product Management, Servers
Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready for the Age of AI? – APJ | AMD
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Senior Director, Product Management, Servers
Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready for the Age of AI? – EMEA | Dell Servers
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Senior Director, Product Management, Servers
Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready for the Age of AI? – EMEA | AMD
GUEST · Dell Technologies · Senior Director, Product Management, Servers