Cloud
ARM And AMD X86 Server Chips Get Mainstream Lift From Microsoft
If you want real competition among vendors who supply stuff to you, then sometimes you have to make it happen by yourself. …
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Compute
BSC’s Mont Blanc 3 Puts ARM Inside Bull Sequana Supers
The HPC industry has been waiting a long time for the ARM ecosystem to mature enough to yield real-world clusters, with hundreds or thousands of nodes and running a full software stack, as a credible alternative to clusters based on X86 processors. …
Compute
Next-Generation ThunderX2 ARM Targets Skylake Xeons
Networking chip maker Cavium is one of the ARM server chip upstarts that is taking on Intel’s hegemony in the datacenter, and is probably getting the most traction among its ARM peers in the past year with its ThunderX multicore processors. …