Compute
The Mass Customization Wave Is Starting For Servers
Remember when only a couple of variations of processors were available for servers in any given generation of server CPUs? …
Epyc
HPC
“Milan-X” 3D Vertical Cache Yields Epyc HPC Bang For The Buck Boost
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?
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
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. …
Compute
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter
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
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. …
Compute
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, and OEM server manufacturers of the world who build servers for everyone else all want, more than anything else, competition between component suppliers and a regular, predictable, almost boring cadence of new component introductions. …
HPC
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
Compute
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
HPC
Eni Chooses Utility Pricing For New HPC4+ Supercomputer
Here are two things you don’t see every day in the realm of scientific and technical high performance computing. …