AI
OpenCL Opens Doors to Deep Learning Training on FPGA
Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. …
Altera
Cloud
Skylake Xeon Ramp Cuts Into Intel’s Datacenter Profits
Every successive processor generation presents its own challenges to all chip makers, and the ramp of 14 nanometer processes that will be used in the future “Skylake” Xeon processors, due in the second half of this year, cut into the operating profits of its Data Center Group in the final quarter of 2016. …
Compute
FPGA Frontiers: New Applications in Reconfigurable Computing
There is little doubt that this is a new era for FPGAs. …
Compute
Intel Owns The Server, Wants To Own The Rack
Chip maker Intel has been getting a lot of grief in recent days about missing the boat on putting chips in Apple’s iPhone back when the product was announced back in 2007, and then subsequently also losing out on the opportunity to have Intel Inside the Apple iPad tablet that came out three years later. …
Compute
How FPGAs Can Take On GPUs And Knights Landing
Nallatech doesn’t make FPGAs, but it does have several decades of experience turning FPGAs into devices and systems that companies can deploy to solve real-world computing problems without having to do the systems integration work themselves. …
Compute
The Glass House Is Still Intel’s Piggy Bank
Intel had been warning for several months that revenues for its Data Center Group would decelerate a bit as 2015 wound down, and this has indeed happened. …
Cloud
FPGAs Glimmer on the HPC Horizon, Glint in Hyperscale Sun
At the last five annual Supercomputing Conferences, an underlying theme has been the potential of accelerators. …
Compute
Intel Traces Deeper Pathways on Future FPGA Map
Amid the din around the mainstream market chip and developer news at the Intel Developer Forum yesterday, a couple of quieter, but no less pressing topics were at the top of our minds here at The Next Platform. …
Cloud
Why Hyperscalers And Clouds Are Pushing Intel Into FPGAs
It has been almost two months since Intel announced its blockbuster $16.7 billion deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera, which will allow the world’s largest chip maker to move from fixed function into programmable devices and potentially shake up the entire spectrum of computing, from handhelds all the way to datacenters. …
Compute
Intel Slows Moore’s Law Pace As Enterprise Spending Tightens
This being the early years of the public cloud buildout, spending on infrastructure in this sector of the economy tends to be spikey and boisterous. …