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Datacenter And Xilinx Power Through In Q4 And Beyond For AMD

February 1, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Imagine, if you will, how troublesome AMD’s chip business would be at the end of 2022 had it not decided way back in 2015 to re-enter the datacenter with its Epyc processors. …

Compute

Intel’s Datacenter Business Goes From Bad To Worse, With Worst Still To Come

January 27, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

Everybody expected that Intel was going to turn in a pretty bad final quarter in 2022, and even before it posted its numbers yesterday after the market closed, there were plenty of signals that it was going to be worse. …

Compute

Building The Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast

January 24, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

If memory bandwidth is holding back the performance of some of your applications, and there is something that you can do about it other than to just suffer. …

HPC

More CPU Cores Isn’t Always Better, Especially In HPC

January 19, 2023 Tobias Mann 7

If a few cores are good, then a lot of cores ought to be better. …

Compute

Intel Sometimes Charges A Hefty Premium For Sapphire Rapids

January 17, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

No matter what, and without any excuses about Moore’s Law slowing down, those buying compute, storage, and networking expect at least one thing in any generational leap in a device: That the cost per unit of capacity goes down. …

Compute

With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future

January 10, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 0

Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in early 2021, the same year that the company was supposed to launch is much-touted fourth-generation Xeon SP processor, dubbed “Sapphire Rapids.” …

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The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs

January 10, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

If you are thinking that you are having flashbacks as Intel is launching the “Sapphire Rapids” server CPUs – the company’s fourth generation in the Xeon SP family of server processors – you are not alone. …

Compute

IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing

September 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 14

Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …

Compute

Aurora In A Socket: What Intel’s “Falcon Shores” XPU Might Do

February 28, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

We are still chewing through some of the announcements that came out of Intel Investor Day and the ISSCC 2022 chip conference, and one of the things we want to circle back on is the “Falcon Shores” hybrid CPU-GPU that Intel is working on for future servers. …

Compute

Intel Unfolds Xeon Roadmap With More Cores, Denser Transistors

February 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 15

We were complaining a few weeks ago that Intel had not put out a server processor roadmap of any substance in a long time, and instead of just leaving it at that, we created our own Xeon SP roadmap based on rumors, speculation, hunches, and desires. …

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