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NOAA Gets 3X More Oomph For Weather Forecasting; It Needs 3,300X

June 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Until exascale supercomputers get a lot cheaper, which will allow weather forecasting models to run at a much smaller resolution – and more frequently – to deliver hyper-local weather forecasts, the actual weather forecasting is still going to be done by people. …

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Chip Roadmaps Unfold, Crisscrossing And Interconnecting, At AMD

June 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

After its acquisitions of ATI in 2006 and the maturation of its discrete GPUs with the Instinct line from the past few years and the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando here in 2022, AMD is not just a second source of X86 processors. …

Compute

AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money

June 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …

Compute

Can AMD Keep Doubling Its Datacenter Business?

May 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. …

Compute

The Mass Customization Wave Is Starting For Servers

March 29, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Remember when only a couple of variations of processors were available for servers in any given generation of server CPUs? …

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“Milan-X” 3D Vertical Cache Yields Epyc HPC Bang For The Buck Boost

March 21, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Last fall ahead of the SC21 supercomputing conference, AMD said it was going to be the first of the major compute engine makers to add 3D vertical L3 cache to its chips, in this case to variants of  the “Milan” Epyc 7003 series of processors that debuted in March 2021 called the “Milan-X” chips. …

Compute

What Will AMD Do With Programmable Logic And Other Xilinx IP?

February 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

AMD has finished its acquisition of Xilinx, which ended up costing close to $49 billion instead of the original $35 billion projected when the deal was announced in October 2020 thanks to the rise of AMD’s shares over the past year and a half. …

Compute

The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD

February 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

When this is all said and done, Intel will deserve some kind of award for keeping its 14 nanometer processes moving along enough as it gets its 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer processes knocked together to still, somehow, manage to retain dominant market share in the server space. …

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AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter

February 2, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …

Compute

AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver

November 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …

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