Cloud
Tencent Rolling Out Self-Styled AMD “Milan” Servers
Few things sound more Intel than “StarLake” but in fact, AMD is at the heart of an announcement with Chinese hyperscale giant, Tencent. …
Tencent
AI
The AI Training Chip Tencent Has an Eye On
It is not news that China wants a rich, native, diverse semiconductor ecosystem to feed its largest consumers of compute. …
Compute
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
Cloud
Vertically Unchallenged
Components make compute and storage servers, and servers with application plane, control plane, and data plane software running atop them or alongside them make systems, and workflows across systems make platforms. …
Code
China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source
We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …
AI
China’s Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending
Gone are the days of early warehouse scale computing pioneers that were based in the U.S.. …
Compute
Rapid GPU Evolution at Chinese Web Giant Tencent
Like other major hyperscale web companies, China’s Tencent, which operates a massive network of ad, social, business, and media platforms, is increasingly reliant on two trends to keep pace. …