Compute
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
Compute
Compute
Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator
Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and spatial envelopes of modern processors. …
Compute
With Rome, AMD Will Build Off Momentum For Naples Epyc Chips
AMD had been down this road before. In 2003, the chip maker launched the “SledgeHammer” Opteron, the first 64-bit X86 server processor with backward compatibility to its 32-bit predecessors that came at a time when much larger rival Intel was still pumping up Itanium as the next-generation architecture – and its only 64-bit option. …
Compute
AMD Doubles Down – And Up – With Rome Epyc Server Chips
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
Compute
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
Compute
Paving The Way For Two System Architecture Paths
The IT industry is all about evolution, building on what’s been done in the past to address the demands of the future. …
Compute
Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator
Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA. …
Compute
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that not all of the lines need to be firing full bore for the business to accelerate down its roadmap. …
Compute
Real Competition Puts Intel Data Center Group In The Pinchers
There has never been a better time to wait to buy processors for servers, and in the second quarter of this year, based on the financial results that Intel has turned in, many companies did just that. …
Cloud
Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart
Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has acquired the company that made open source software in the enterprise safe, sane, and affordable. …