Former NASA Exec Brings Stealth Machine Learning Chip to Light
Chip startups come and go. Generally, we cover them because of novel architectures or potential for specific applications. …
Chip startups come and go. Generally, we cover them because of novel architectures or potential for specific applications. …
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. …
Intel is coming to the finish line with its 14 nanometer chip making process with the launch of the “Broadwell” generation of Xeon E7 server processors in China today. …
Networking chip maker Cavium is one of the ARM server chip upstarts that is taking on Intel’s hegemony in the datacenter, and is probably getting the most traction among its ARM peers in the past year with its ThunderX multicore processors. …
While online auctioneer eBay does not run the largest search engine in the world, search is a very key component of its service, which has over 162 million active buyers and 900 million product listings. …
The datacenter is a battleground with many fronts these days, with intense competition between compute, memory, storage, and networking components. …
Having made the improbable jump from the game console to the supercomputer, GPUs are now invading the datacenter. …
Any aspirations that the Hewlett-Packard that we knew for nearly a decade and a half to build a conglomerate that resembled IBM in its own former enterprise breadth and depth of software, services, and systems is now over with the company spinning out its Enterprise Services business and focusing very tightly on its core hardware and related software businesses. …
While legacy monolithic applications will linger in virtual machines for an incredibly long time in the datacenter, new scale-out applications run best on new architectures. …
At the tail end of Google’s keynote speech at its developer conference Wednesday, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO mentioned that Google had built its own chip for machine learning jobs that it calls a Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. …
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