AI
Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell
Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. …
Epyc
Compute
The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won
Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …
Compute
AMD Will Need Another Decade To Try To Pass Nvidia
Lisu Su has turned in her first ten years at the helm of AMD, and what a hell of a run it has been. …
AI
AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …
Compute
The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. …
Compute
AMD Previews “Turin” Epyc CPUs, Expands Instinct GPU Roadmap
Computex, the annual conference in Taiwan to showcase the island nation’s vast technology business, has been transformed into what amounts to a half-time show for the datacenter IT year. …
Compute
AMD Firing On All Compute Engine Cylinders
A few years ago, it was hard to imagine how AMD would have survived without re-entering the datacenter with its CPU and GPU compute engines. …
Compute
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
HPC
Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
AI
AMD’s Instinct GPU Business Is Coiled To Spring
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …