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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. …

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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. …

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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. …

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Intel Unfolds Xeon Roadmap With More Cores, Denser Transistors

February 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 16

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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The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD

February 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

When this is all said and done, Intel will deserve some kind of award for keeping its 14 nanometer processes moving along enough as it gets its 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer processes knocked together to still, somehow, manage to retain dominant market share in the server space. …

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Enterprises Fill In The Hyperscaler Gap For Intel’s Datacenter Business

January 27, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There is a new tick–tock at work at chip maker Intel, and one that overlays the normal metronome cadence of manufacturing process shrinks and architecture advancement. …

Compute

In The Absence Of A Xeon Roadmap, Intel Makes Us Draw One

January 20, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …

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How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks

October 21, 2021 Rob Farber 2

Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. …

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Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems

October 6, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …

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