A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a company threatened by their very existence has to do two things. …
As we pointed out recently, there has been a certain amount of tumult and change in recent months in the Arm server processor space. …
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
At this point in the history of information technology, there is no way to introduce a new processor that does not appeal to the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
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