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Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
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Programming The Network With Intel NEX Chief Nick McKeown
It would be very difficult indeed to find a better general manager for Intel’s newly constituted Network and Edge Group networking business than Nick McKeown, and Pat Gelsinger, the chief executive officer charged with turning around Intel’s foundries and its chip design business, is lucky that Intel was on an acquisitive bend in the wake of its rumored failed attempt to buy Mellanox and Nvidia’s successful purchase of Mellanox a few months later. …
AI
Graphcore Thinks It Can Get An AI Piece Of The HPC Exascale Pie
For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
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Covering All The Hardware – And Software – Bases With IPUs
Sponsored Feature Over the course of two decades, Intel drove the most important architectural change in the datacenter since the advent of the System/360 mainframe in the 1960s and the rise of RISC/Unix servers in the 1980s. …
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Intel Unrolls DPU Roadmap, With A Two Year Cadence
There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …
AI
Graphcore Goes Full 3D With AI Chips
The 3D stacking of chips has been the subject of much speculation and innovation in the past decade, and we will be the first to admit that we have been mostly thinking about this as a way to cram more capacity into a given compute engine while at the same time getting components closer together along the Z axis and not just working in 2D anymore down on the X and Y axes. …
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Intel Braces For DPU Hit, Awaits Jevon’s Paradox Bounce
We said this a long time ago, and we are going to say it again now. …