Compute
Cache Is King
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …
Compute
Compute
Covering All The Compute Bases In A Heterogeneous Datacenter
Intel has spent more than three decades evolving from the dominant provider of CPUs for personal computers to the dominant supplier of processors for servers in the datacenter. …
Compute
The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter
You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in Java, but it probably helps in both cases if you want to do them well. …
Compute
Quantum Computing Providers Pick Their Dance Partners
Toward the end of 2019, a flurry of announcements by some of the most prominent IT companies suggests that collaborations will become increasingly important in the quantum computing space as the players jockey for position in the nascent market. …
Compute
The Other Way To Bring Arm CPUs To Servers
There are at least two – and possibly more – paths to make Arm processors competitive with the Intel and now AMD X86 incumbent processors in the datacenter. …
Compute
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Compute
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
Compute
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Cloud
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Compute
Holding The Line In The Enterprise
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …