The system world would have been a simpler place if InfiniBand had fulfilled its original promise as a universal fabric interconnect for linking all manner of devices together within a system and across systems. …
For much the three decades that Rambus has existed, it has largely focused on its patent portfolio and licensing its designs of memory interface technologies for a broad array of computer products. …
As many of you know from reading The Next Platform, we are firm believers that eventually we will get disaggregated and composable systems that drive up the sharing of hardware resource across many workloads and therefore drive down the cost of hardware to support workloads. …
To one way of looking at it, a reprise of the Bus Wars from days gone by in the late 1980s and early 1990s would have been a lot of fun. …
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
The dividing lines between system buses, system intraconnects, and system interconnects are getting more blurry all the time. …
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
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