AI
AMD Builds Out Its AI Software And Services Stack With Silo AI Buy
You can build a software ecosystem if you have time. But sometimes, you want to speed things up, and then you have to pay to build that ecosystem out. …
FPGA
Compute
AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges
The edge is continuing to become a place where IT infrastructure vendors need to be, and that includes chip makers, all of whom have strategies to push their silicon to where the data is increasingly being generated and needs to be stored, processed, and analyzed. …
Compute
The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera
Back in 2015, when we were launching The Next Platform, a lot of stuff was going on all at the same time, which is part of the zeitgeist that we were tapping into and that we wanted to chronical upon and participate within. …
Compute
Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path
Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …
Compute
AI Is A Modest – But Important – Slice Of TSMC’s Business
Given the exorbitant demand for compute and networking for running Ai workloads and the dominance of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in making the compute engine chips and providing the complex packaging for them, you would think that the world’s largest foundry would be making money hands over fist in the second quarter. …
Compute
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …
Compute
Cutting To The Front Of The Server CPU Line
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, if you are not one of the hyperscalers or one of the biggest cloud builders, then you are a second class citizen, or maybe even third class, when it comes to the semiconductors that go into different part of the systems that run your organization. …
Compute
Intel To Broaden FPGA Lineup And Make Them At Home
Back in 2015, when Intel was flush with cash thanks to a near-monopoly from X86 datacenter compute, it shelled out an incredible $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera because a few hyperscalers and cloud builders were monkeying around with offloading whole chunks of CPU compute to FPGAs to create SmartNICs. …
Compute
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
Code
Now Comes The Hard Part, AMD: Software
From the moment the first rumors surfaced that AMD was thinking about acquiring FPGA maker Xilinx, we thought this deal was as much about software as it was about hardware. …