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. …
Intel’s new chief executive officer, Lip-Bu Tan, has his work cut out for him, just like his predecessor, Pat Gelsinger, did several years ago. …
The HPC centers of the world like fast networks and compute, but they are also always working under budget constraints unlike their AI peers out there in the enterprise, where money seems to be unlimited to what sometimes looks like an irrationally exuberant extent. …
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. …
If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. …
After only a little more than a year of running Intel’s Data Center and AI group – which is probably about as much fun right now as falling down the stairs – Justin Hotard has departed the chip maker to become the next chief executive officer of Nokia, which interestingly enough has a renewed interest in building cloud networks and making money at that. …
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. …
When we first started The Next Platform a decade ago, there was not really much of a reason to cover the company’s datacenter efforts. …
Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes.
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …
We have said it before, and we will say it again as everyone is chewing on the financial results that Nvidia just turned in for its third quarter of fiscal 2025 ended in October. …
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