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Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
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IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
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Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
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Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
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Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches A Memory Fabric
It is difficult not to be impatient for the technologies of the future, which is one reason that this publication is called The Next Platform. …
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Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration
When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …