Compute
“Polaris” AmpereOne M Arm CPUs Sighted In Oracle A4 Instances
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced a $6.5 billion acquisition of Arm server CPU upstart Ampere Computing back in March, and that deal has not yet closed. …
ARM
Compute
Arm Says Neoverse Is A More Universal Compute Substrate Than X86
Back at the end of July, we had a discussion with CPU maker AMD and the topic of conversation was hybrid cloud. …
Compute
NeuReality Wants Its NR2 To Be Your Arm CPU For AI
Just because the center of gravity for GenAI compute and other kinds of machine learning and data analytics has shifted from the CPU to the XPU accelerator – generally a GPU these days, but not universally – does not mean that the choice of the CPU for the system hosting those XPUs doesn’t matter. …
HPC
Nvidia Tapped To Accelerate RIKEN’s FugakuNext Supercomputer
It has been clear for some time that Japan wants to have a certain amount of economic and technical independence when it comes to cloud computing in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
HPC
With Money And Rhea1 Tapeout, SiPearl Gets Real About HPC CPUs
The European Union cannot practically declare its independence from Nvidia GPUs any more than any other nation can at this point. …
Compute
Armv9 Architecture Helps Lift Arm To New Financial Heights
The Armv9 architecture has a lot of technical enhancements to commend it, but as far as Arm Holdings, the creator and licensor of the Arm architecture, is concerned one of the best features of Armv9, which was first unveiled four years ago, is that it comes with a higher royalty fee than prior Armv7 and Armv8 architectures. …
AI
Europe Takes Another Whack At Homegrown Compute Engines
With RISC-V International, the body controlling the RISC-V instruction set, located in Switzerland for the past five years, RISC-V now has just as much right to call itself indigenous to Europe as does Arm Ltd, the British chip company that finds itself on the other side of the English Channel after the Brexit break up and that is still around 90 percent owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
Compute
Broadcom And Marvell Ride The Compute Engine Independence Wave
Nvidia sells the lion’s share of the parallel compute underpinning AI training, and it has a very large – and probably dominant – share of AI inference. …
Compute
How Much Money Does Arm Make In The Datacenter?
As we have been saying for quite some time, when it comes to datacenter CPUs, we think that homegrown Arm processors (as well as those made by independents Ampere Computing and Huawei Technologies) will eventually represent at least half of the computing capacity that the hyperscalers and major cloud builders install. …
Compute
It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves
As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …