As we pointed out a year ago when some key silicon experts were hired from Intel and Broadcom to come work for Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook was always the most obvious place to do custom silicon. …
A year ago, at its Google I/O 2022 event, Google revealed to the world that it had eight pods of TPUv4 accelerators, with a combined 32,768 of its fourth generation, homegrown matrix math accelerators, running in a machine learning hub located in its Mayes County, Oklahoma datacenter. …
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. …
Historically Intel put all its cumulative chip knowledge to work advancing Moore’s Law and applying those learnings to its future CPUs. …
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …
GPU computing platform maker Nvidia announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in January, which showed the same digestion of already acquired capacity by the hyperscalers and cloud builders and the same hesitation to spend by enterprises that other compute engine makers for datacenter computing are also seeing. …
We were under the distinct impression that AMD was not going to talk much about its datacenter compute engines at the Consumer Electronics Show, having just launched its “Genoa” Epyc 9004 server CPUs in November with much fanfare. …
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. …
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
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