One of the big problems of servers, storage, and networking, oddly enough, is that in the individual elements in which they are sold, there is a perception that they are not all that expensive. …
When Arm Holdings, the division of the Softbank conglomerate that designs and licenses the core component of the processor architecture that bears its name, launched its Neoverse revamping of the Arm architecture for the datacenter and the edge last October, the company put the architecture on a strict annual cadence and promised to deliver 30 percent performance increases at the system level with each generation. …
To a certain way of looking at it, Nvidia has always been engaged in the high performance computing business and it has always been subject to the same kinds of cyclical waves that affect makers of supercomputers and enterprise systems. …
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
IBM, which arguably has the largest remaining big iron server business in the world, is one step closer to making systems based on its own Power processors peers to the Xeon-based machinery that utterly dominates its IBM Cloud public cloud. …
Constructing a processor from an entire silicon wafer might seem like a strange idea, but a new study demonstrated that a waferscale chip can outperform an equivalent multi-chip module MCM by an order of magnitude, while delivering much better energy efficiency. …
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
The second 5 percent chunk of server shipment market share for chip maker AMD is probably going to come easier than the first 5 percent share, which was attained as AMD exited the fourth quarter and, significantly, was a stake in the ground that chief executive officer Lisa Su drove into the ground in late 2016 as the “Naples” Epyc ramp got under way. …
For the first time in a very long time, and even including the Great Recession, chip maker Intel booked less revenue in the fourth quarter of the year than it did in the third quarter of that same year. …
Quantum computing is often portrayed as a way to solve esoteric problems that can’t be attempted with conventional computers. …
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