Cloud
Intel’s Data Center Group Rides A Wave Of Compute Demand
Sometimes, you just have to be amazed by a good stroke of luck in the IT sector. … “Intel’s Data Center Group Rides A Wave Of Compute Demand”
Intel
AI
Where The FPGA Hits The Server Road For Inference Acceleration
There are an increasing number of ways to do machine learning inference in the datacenter, but one of the increasingly popular means of running inference workloads is the combination of traditional CPUs acting as a host for FPGAs that run the bulk of the inferring. … “Where The FPGA Hits The Server Road For Inference Acceleration”
Compute
Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc
The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in the tooth. … “Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc”
Cloud
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons
When this is all done, Intel might have wished it had kept Renee James as president and chief executive officer, because Ampere, an Arm server chip startup that James has been running since this spring, wants a big piece of the Xeon datacenter business and it has the financial backing to start a price war that others can win and only Intel can lose. … “Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons”
AI
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neumann
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing. … “Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neumann”
Compute
The Skinny On Future Cascade Lake Xeons
The changes to the Xeon server chip architecture and the consequent server platforms are going to be a bit thin here in 2018 after a pretty big jump with the “Skylake” Xeon SP processors and the related “Purley” platforms that launched back in July 2017. … “The Skinny On Future Cascade Lake Xeons”
Compute
Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory
The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that data is putting a strain on traditional storage and memory architectures that typically inhabit these environments. … “Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory”
Compute
Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake
Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass house. … “Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake”
AI
Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference
There has been much written about the potential for FPGAs to take a leadership role in accelerating deep learning but in practice, the hurdles of getting from concept to high performance hardware design are still taller than many AI shops are willing to scale, particularly when GPUs dominate in training and in a pinch, standard CPUs will do just fine for datacenter inference since they involve little developer overhead. … “Intel FPGA Architecture Focuses on Deep Learning Inference”
Compute
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter
Despite the increasing competitive pressures that Intel is feeling in the datacenter and very serious issues that the company is having ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes, the datacenter business at Intel were booming in the second quarter, helping to drive a record second quarter and what is looking like will be a record full year for the chip maker. … “Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter”