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The HBM3 Roadmap Is Just Getting Started
To a certain extent, the only thing that really matters in a computing system is what changes in its memory, and to that extent, this is what makes computers like us. …
Samsung
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Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect
When the hyperscalers, the major datacenter compute engine suppliers, and the three remaining foundries with advanced node manufacturing capabilities launch a standard together on Day One, this is an unusual, significant, and pleasant surprise. …
Compute
The Chip Has Hit The Fan
If you are a designer of chips based on the most advanced processes available from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and your roadmap is based on the company’s continuing progress and prowess in pushing Moore’s Law to the limit, then not only is the future in your roadmaps being pushed out, but you are going to have to pay more for whatever chips you are making now and, we suspect, the chips you are depending on for your business in the future. …
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What Faster And Smarter HBM Memory Means For Systems
If the HPC and AI markets need anything right now, it is not more compute but rather more memory capacity at a very high bandwidth. …
Compute
When The Chips Are Down And Prices Go Up
And you thought toilet paper shortages were bad in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, or board and plywood prices are high and getting insane at the local hardware depot that you already spent too much money at. …
Compute
High-End Chipmakers to Fare Far Better During Semiconductor Crisis
We live in a world of stratification, social, economic, and technical. …
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Computational Storage Winds Its Way Towards The Mainstream
Enterprises are said to be awash in data, and one of the problems posed by all this data is not just storing it, but processing it. …
Compute
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
Compute
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …
Compute
Making The Case For Fully Converged Arm Servers
There has been a lot of research and development devoted to bringing the Arm architecture to servers and storage in the datacenter, and a lot of that has focused on making beefier and usually custom Arm cores that look more like an X86 core than they do the kind of compute element we find in our smartphones and tablets. …