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AMD Coils For 7 Nanometer Leap Over Intel And Nvidia

June 7, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

With Intel having significant difficulties in ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes and not really talking much about its plans for 7 nanometers, there has never been a better time for its few remaining rivals in chip manufacturing to give their respective CPU and GPU customers and edge to carve out some market share in the datacenter and on the desktop, which helps cover the cost of being in the datacenter because it helps ramp advanced processes. …

Cisco Gets Modular With Servers In Epyc Fashion

June 1, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Believe it or not, Cisco Systems has a bunch of customers for its UCS blade and rack servers that are in the gaming industry, which has its share of near-hyperscale players who have widely geographically distributed clusters spread around the globe so players can get very low latency access over the Internet to games running on that infrastructure. …

The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices

May 31, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. …

Nvidia Takes More Control Of Its GPU Compute Platform

May 30, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Nvidia got a little taste of hardware, and the company’s top brass have decided that they like having a lot of iron in their financial diet. …

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All Things Decentralized

May 26, 2018 James Cuff 0

We recently considered how computing was often being called distributed even when it shouldn’t be, or being called something else when it really isn’t. …

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We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, And Fight Again

May 25, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Hewlett Packard built up its conglomerate in the 2000s in good faith, trying to be a larger and more profitable supplier of IT products and services. …

A Peek Inside That Intel Xeon-FPGA Hybrid Chip

May 24, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

Last week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo, Lisa Spelman, who is general manager of Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, did a soft announcement of the hybrid Xeon CPU-Arria 10 FPGA hybrid chip that the company has been talking about for years and that is now available to selected customers. …

Intel AI VP Gadi Singer On One Song To The Tune Of Another

May 23, 2018 0

In the United Kingdom, there is a topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. …

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Weather Forecasting Gets A Big Lift In Japan

May 22, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It has been a long time since the Japan Meteorological Agency has deployed the kind of supercomputing oomph for weather forecasting that the island nation would seem to need to improve its forecasts. …

It’s Called Distributed Computing, Even When It Shouldn’t Be

May 21, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Success can be its own kind of punishment in this world. …