Compute
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Applied Micro
Cloud
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons
When this is all done, Intel might have wished it had kept Renee James as president and chief executive officer, because Ampere, an Arm server chip startup that James has been running since this spring, wants a big piece of the Xeon datacenter business and it has the financial backing to start a price war that others can win and only Intel can lose. …
Cloud
Private Equity Amps Up Arm Servers With Applied X86 Techies
The Carlyle Group, the publicly traded investment firm that has invested in nearly 300 companies that have a net worth of $170 billion and which itself could make around $4 billion in management fees and income from those investments for 2017, does not invest in any technology lightly. …
Compute
Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter
If any new hardware technology is going to get traction in the datacenter, it has to have the software behind it. …
Cloud
Applied Micro Renews ARM Assault On Intel Servers
The lineup of ARM server chip makers has been a somewhat fluid one over the years. …
Cloud
Are ARM Server Chips Xeon Class, And Does It Matter?
We have often opined that ARMv8 processors would struggle to meet Intel Xeon chips head-on until they got a few microarchitecture revisions under their belts to improve per-core performance and until they narrowed the manufacturing gap to 14 nanometers or 16 nanometers, or perhaps even 10 nanometers. …
Cloud
Telcos Call On ARM To Compete For Compute
The hyperscaler and HPC organizations of the world are not the only places where innovation happens with infrastructure. …
Compute
Dense Eurotech Hive System Broadens Compute
Every supercomputing center in the world is wrestling with the issues of power, cooling, and compute density, but some have tighter constraints than others and need to have more energy efficient machines than they can get with standard clusters of rack servers. …
Compute
Applied Micro Chases Xeons With X-Gene 3 And NUMA
If ARM processors are going to get traction in the datacenter, they will have to do so outside of the conservative glass houses of large enterprises. …
Compute
Avago-Broadcom To Take On Intel In The Datacenter
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …