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Google Says The SOC Is The New Motherboard

March 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

For two decades now, Google has demonstrated perhaps more than any other company that the datacenter is the new computer, what the search engine giant called a “warehouse-scale machine” way back in 2009 with a paper written by Urs Hölzle, who was and still is senior vice president for Technical Infrastructure at Google, and Luiz André Barroso, who is vice president of engineering for the core products at Google and who was a researcher at Digital Equipment and Compaq before that. …

Designing Servers In Rapidly Changing Times

March 22, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 0

When chip makers launch the latest additions of their datacenter processors, server OEMs have historically immediately or soon after followed with a rollout of the latest new or enhanced systems based on those offerings. …

Can Graviton Win A Three-Way Compute Race At AWS?

March 17, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

One of the main tenets of the hyperscalers and cloud builders is that they buy what they can and they only build what they must. …

AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs

March 15, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 2

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. …

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The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors

March 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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. …

The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems

February 17, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The hyperscalers and cloud builders can be split into two camps, but a third one might be emerging. …

AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle

January 26, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Server buyers have longer memories and perhaps deeper disappointment of AMD’s exit from the X86 server processor business than consumers who buy PCs, and a manufacturing constrained Intel has clearly sacrificed some Core PC chip market share to maintain some Xeon SP server market share over the past two years. …

Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected

January 21, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Incoming chief executive officer and long-time Intel employee Pat Gelsinger is talking the helm of a chip company that has plenty of issues to sort out, but there is some good news as Intel reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and Gelsinger gets ready to take over. …

The Impending AMD Milan Versus Intel Ice Lake Server Showdown

January 15, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

What a strange server CPU world we live in. The dozen or so biggest customers in the world command something on the order of 45 percent of the server CPU shipments, but significantly lower share of the revenue because of the volume discounts they can command, and they not only shape the product rollouts, their opinions can kill off processor SKUs long before we even know about them on announcement day. …

Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase

January 13, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Hot on the heels of our overview of the state of the Arm server CPU landscape yesterday, chip maker Qualcomm, which dabbled in Arm server chips a few years back, announced that it was acquiring startup Nuvia for its Arm chips and design team. …