Compute
The Mass Customization Wave Is Starting For Servers
Remember when only a couple of variations of processors were available for servers in any given generation of server CPUs? …
Milan
Compute
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver
Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …
Cloud
Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X
Microsoft has been among the first to build and operationalize clusters based on AMD’s Milan-X processors, which were formally announced this morning. …
HPC
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
Compute
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
Compute
AMD 3rd Gen Epyc CPUs Put Intel Xeon SPs On Ice In The Datacenter
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Compute
Deep Dive Into AMD’s “Milan” Epyc 7003 Architecture
The “Milan” Epyc 7003 processors, the third generation of AMD’s revitalized server CPUs, is now in the field, and we await the entry of the “Ice Lake” Xeon SPs from Intel for the next jousting match in the datacenter to begin. …
Compute
AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs
It has been a long time – more than 15 years – since AMD has been in a position to pressure larger rival Intel in supplying processors to server OEMs and ODMs for the datacenter. …
Compute
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors
With every passing year, as AMD first talked about its plans to re-enter the server processor arena and give Intel some real, much needed, and very direct competition and then delivered again and again on its processor roadmap, it has gotten easier and easier to justify spending at least some of the server CPU budget with Intel’s archrival in the X86 computing arena. …
Compute
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines
We have a bad case of the silicon shakes and a worsening deficiency in iron here at The Next Platform, but the good news is that new CPU processors from AMD and Intel are imminent, and more processors are expected later this year from IBM and Ampere Computing, too. …