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Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware
Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
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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. …
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GlobalFoundries Sharpens Photonics Edge for Quantum Manufacturing
Chip manufacturing giant, GlobalFoundaries, has struck up a unique arrangement with an ambitious quantum startup to share knowledge that could help turn standard photonics processing technology into a qubit factory. …
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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. …
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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. …
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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. …
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AMD Hits Intel Below The Belt In The Datacenter Wallet
What Intel calls “cloud digestion” as the cause of the massive pullback in spending in its Data Center Group is looking more and more like a case of “Epyc indigestion” for Intel, not for the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
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Arm Puts Some Muscle Into Future Neoverse Server CPU Designs
Arm is hosting its annual Tech Day shindig, virtually (again) thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, and is providing a lot more insight into the future Neoverse core and processor designs that will be adopted and modified by those who have a hankering to take on the hegemony of the X86 processor – which now includes pretty solid CPUs from Intel and AMD – in the datacenter and at the edge. …
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Talking Servers With Inspur And Intel
Any time a server maker comes into the global market and bypasses Cisco Systems, Lenovo, and IBM to become the third largest seller of machines in the world, you should pay attention. …
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The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling The Hangover
All good parties come to an end, and the one that Intel has enjoyed for an unbelievable dozen years, starting with the rollout of the “Nehalem” Xeon E5500 processors back in March 2009, is over. …