
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
Supermicro has become the latest of the big OEMs to add Arm-based systems to its portfolio, with the launch of its Mt. …
When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. …
Let’s just say it right here at the beginning. The first wave of attempts at creating Arm server chips –Calxeda, Applied Micro, AMD, Marvell, Nvidia, and Samsung, among others – was disappointing. …
Imagine, if you will, that Nvidia had launched its forthcoming “Grace” Arm server CPU three years ago instead of early next year. …
If you are an HPC center in Europe, and particularly one that is funded by public funds, you are thinking about Arm-based CPUs in your supercomputers. …
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of alternate processor architectures outside of the standard Xeon X86 CPUs that comprise the vast majority of its revenues and shipments, particularly with Arm server chips starting in 2011. …
This time last year, Arm server CPU startup Ampere Computing provided a roadmap running out through 2023 describing its future products, aimed at demonstrating its commitment to the idea of Arm server chips. …
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
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