Compute
Defying Supply Constraints, Nvidia Turns In Its Best Quarter Ever
To one way of thinking about it, this is the best of times among the worst of times for Nvidia. …
GPU
Compute
AMD At A Tipping Point With Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators
It is hard enough to chase one competitor. Imagine how hard it is to chase two different ones in different but complementary markets while at the same time those two competitors are thinking about fighting each other in those two different markets and thus bringing even more intense competitive pressure on both fronts. …
Compute
Intel’s First Discrete Xe Server GPU Aimed At Hyperscalers
We have been waiting for years to see the first discrete Xe GPU from Intel that is aimed at the datacenter, and as it turns out, the first one is not the heavy compute engine we have been anticipating, but rather a souped up version of the Iris Xe LP and Iris Max Xe LP graphics cards that were launched at the end of October, which themselves are essentially the GPU extracted from the hybrid CPU-GPU “Tiger Lake” Core i9 processors for PC clients. …
Compute
AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …
HPC
The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
Compute
Nvidia Previews Ampere Kicker To Turing GPU Accelerator
We are still digging through the content coming out of the GTC 2020 fall conference and would be remiss if we didn’t talk a bit about the “Ampere” A40 and A6000 GPU accelerators that Nvidia is previewing. …
Compute
One On One With Jensen Huang: Nvidia, The Platform Company
While a lot of ideas are ancient, some are relatively new and can come from only a modern context. …
AI
VMware Embraces Nvidia GPUs, DPUs To Drive Enterprise AI
AI is too hard for most enterprises to adopt, just like HPC was and continues to be. …
Compute
Intel Puts Its Xe GPU Stakes In The Ground
For about a decade, Intel has sold GPUs, in recent years with its integrated CPU-GPU devices used in client and entry servers. …
Compute
The Dollars And Sense Of Nvidia Paying A Fortune For Arm
Back in April, when we were talking with Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang about the datacenter being the new unit of compute, we explained that we were always disappointed with the fact that Nvidia did not bring its “Denver” hybrid Arm CPU and Nvidia GPU, previewed way back in January 2011, to market, and said further we really wanted Nvidia to redefine what a CPU is by breaking its memory and I/O truly free from its compute. …