Compute
AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs
Updated: We have obtained new information in the wake of publishing our story. …
CPU
HPC
TACC’s “Horizon” Supercomputer Sets The Pace For Academic Science
Updated: As we expected, the “Vista” supercomputer that the Texas Advanced Computing Center installed last year as a bridge between the current “Stampede-3” and “Frontera” production system and its future “Horizon” system coming next year was indeed a precursor of the architecture that TACC would choose for the Horizon machine. …
AI
AMD: Solid Roadmaps Beget Money, Which Beget Better Roadmaps And Even More Money
There is a vicious cycle that comes from screwing up, but there is also a virtuous cycle that comes from digging yourself out of the hole and not only not screwing up anymore, but catching up to and then leapfrogging the competition through good engineering, hard work, and a little luck. …
Compute
Fixing Intel Foundry Is Like Stopping Tripping Down The Stairs
Technical debt is a real thing, as any IT manager, programmer, system administrator or SRE, or end user will tell you. …
Compute
NextSilicon Takes Aim At CPUs And GPUs With “Maverick-2” Dataflow Engine
It has taken eight years and $303 million in seed and three rounds of venture funding, but NextSilicon is today delivering several incarnations of its 64-bit dataflow engine, called Maverick-2, which was revealed this time last year when the company dropped out of stealth mode. …
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. …
Compute
Meta Buys Rivos To Accelerate Compute Engine Engineering
Of all of the hyperscalers and cloud builders, Meta Platforms has always been the one that we expected to design and have manufactured its own CPU and XPU accelerator compute engines. …
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
IBM And AMD Tag Team On Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputers
As we talked about a decade ago in the wake of launching The Next Platform, quantum computers – at least the fault tolerant ones being built by IBM, Google, Rigetti, and a few others – need a massive amount of traditional Von Neumann compute to help maintain their state, assist with qubit error correction, and assist with their computations. …
Compute
Intel’s “Clearwater Forest” Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be A Beast
With AMD having attaining more than 40 percent revenue share and more than 27 percent shipment share in the X86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, that means two things. …