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. …
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
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. …
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
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. …
Sometimes, to get the proper perspective, you have to take the long view. …
While Xilinx and Intel are the dominant suppliers of discrete FPGAs and related system on chip designs that have FPGAs at their heart, they are by no means the only providers of programmable logic in the datacenter. …
If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sourced, as the Power chip instruction set was last August, then it probably makes a lot of sense to put someone at the helm of the project who has deep and broad experience participating in the open source software ecosystem. …
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
Open source hardware is something that is intellectually satisfying as well as economically rewarding, but it is clearly not something for everyone. …
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