If you want to see what the future of iron to support machine learning looks like, then perhaps the best place to look at what the hyperscalers and cloud builders who account for the vast majority of processing and applications in this field are deploying. …
With a timeline to early production sometime in the next decade (if not longer), the business model for quantum computing has been nebulous from the beginning. …
Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at almost the same speed. …
A few months ago, we took an in-depth look at Intel’s quantum hardware strategy—from qubits to device manufacturability and commercial viability. …
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
IBM has come up with its newest and most advanced quantum computer to date, which the company claims is “the world’s first integrated universal approximate quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use.” The system, known as IBM Q System One, was unveiled at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. …
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
It would not have been an Architecture Day, as it was earlier this week at the former estate of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, if the chip giant did not unfold a few pages in the roadmaps for its future CPUs and GPUs. …
It took a very, very long time, but if current conditions persist, we could see a server market that rakes in more than $100 billion next year. …
Innovation requires motivation, and there is nothing quite like a competitor trying to eat your lunch to wake you up every morning to the reality of the situation. …
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