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IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” …
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Tachyum Starts From Scratch To Etch A Universal Processor
For the past five years or so, there has been a lot of talk about accelerated computing being the new normal and about the era of the general purpose processor being over in the datacenter, and for good reason. …
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Disrupt The Datacenter With Orchestration
Since 1965, the computer industry has relied on Moore’s Law to accelerate innovation, pushing more transistors into integrated circuits to improve computation performance. …
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IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection
The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …
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Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips
Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry is going to need lower prices, better performance, and better thermal profiles for their compute engines than they have ever required before. …
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Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us
Server component and system maker Supermicro is known for being out in front when any X86 processor comes to market and often shoots the gap between ODMs, who have a relatively small number of large customers, and OEMs, who have a large number of relatively small customers. …
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Intel Smells Neuromorphic Opportunity
Neuromorphic computing has a rather long way to go before it becomes an accepted part of systems. …
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Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
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Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition of Broadcom’s Arm server chip assets), is hitting back with some revelations about its future “Triton” ThunderX3 chip and its roadmap out beyond that. …
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The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession
Excepting some potholes here and there and a few times when the hyperscalers and cloud builders tapped the brakes, it has been one hell of a run in the last decade for servers. …