Compute
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware
Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Connect
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that on of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …
Compute
AMD Finally Breaks The 10 Percent Server Share Barrier
History doesn’t really repeat itself, but it surely does use a lot of synonyms and rhymes, and sometimes, if you listen very closely, you can catch it muttering to itself. …
Connect
The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins
It has been a long time coming. Over two years, in fact. …
Compute
IBM Chips In To Drive 2 Nanometer Semiconductor Manufacturing
Big Blue got out of the chip foundry business when it sold off its IBM Microelectronics division to GlobalFoundries, itself a spinout of AMD, in 2014. …
Compute
Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover
The top brass at FPGA maker Xilinx are not hosting calls with Wall Street because of the pending $35 billion acquisition of the company by AMD, so we are left to get our own insight out of the financial report and accompanying statement that Xilinx has released for its latest quarterly results. …
AI
Balancing Performance, Capacity, And Budget For AI Training
If the world was not a complex place, and if all machine learning training looked more or less the same, then there would only be one accelerator to goose training workloads. …
Compute
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
Cloud
The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money
What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …
AI
Inspur Rises On The Wave of AI Servers In The Datacenter
Machine learning techniques based on massive amounts of data and GPU accelerators to chew through it are now almost a decade old. …