There are two ways that CPU makers can deliver more bang for the buck, and those running distributed computing workloads can go either way – or somewhere in between – as they build out their server clusters. …
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
If you had to sum up the second half of 2022 and the first half of 2023 from the perspective of the semiconductor industry, it would be that we made too many CPUs for PCs, smartphones, and servers and we didn’t make enough GPUs for the datacenter. …
Welcome to the second part of our Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths series. …
There has always been a certain amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IT vendors sow as they try to protect their positions in markets that they participate in. …
Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …
Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. …
Not everybody can afford an Nvidia DGX AI server loaded up with the latest “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators or even one of its many clones available from the OEMs and ODMs of the world. …
With a server recession underway and its latest Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators still ramping, this was a predictably soft, but still not terrible in the scheme of things, quarter for AMD. …
The expanded lineup of AMD’s 4th generation “Genoa” Epyc server chips – built atop “Zen 4” core and some with the chip maker’s L3-boosting 3D V-Cache – unveiled at a high-profile event in San Francisco this week is quickly making its way into the cloud. …
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