Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, and OEM server manufacturers of the world who build servers for everyone else all want, more than anything else, competition between component suppliers and a regular, predictable, almost boring cadence of new component introductions. …
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from AMD and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs. …
Necessity is the mother of invention, and advances in chip packaging are catching up to those in transistor design when it comes to working in three dimensions instead of the much more limited two. …
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking. …
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
You would have to look far and wide to find a tougher business to be in than chip manufacturing. …
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