Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware

Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. You can’t polish it, and you can’t roll it in glitter. But Intel …

Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. How much larger would its datacenter business already be, setting aside the $49 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, completed earlier this year, and the …

Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the …