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The Dollars And Sense Of Nvidia Paying A Fortune For Arm

July 31, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 13

Back in April, when we were talking with Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang about the datacenter being the new unit of compute, we explained that we were always disappointed with the fact that Nvidia did not bring its “Denver” hybrid Arm CPU and Nvidia GPU, previewed way back in January 2011, to market, and said further we really wanted Nvidia to redefine what a CPU is by breaking its memory and I/O truly free from its compute. …

Balancing AMD’s Future On The Edge Of A Silicon Wafer

July 29, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The hardest job at any chip designer that doesn’t actually own its own foundry – and maybe even those that do – is figuring out what wafer start commitment level to make for a new compute engine in the datacenter. …

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Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again

July 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …

Intel Tests Its Datacenter Teflon With 7 Nanometer Delay

July 23, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

There is such a thing as a string of bad luck, but we have always believed that luck is the residue of design, either good or bad. …

Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter

July 13, 2020 Sponsored Content by Xilinx 0

With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …

Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers

June 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Earlier this month, we were talking to the James Kulina, the new executive director of the OpenPower Foundation, which is the organization created by IBM and Google back in the summer of 2013 to create a community around the Power architecture. …

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The New General And New Purpose In Computing

June 29, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …

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The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud

June 29, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …

Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker

June 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …

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Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors

June 18, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind the scenes in conjunction with its largest OEM partners as well the hyperscalers and large public cloud builders that drive about a third of its revenues these days. …