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. …
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. …
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …
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. …
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. …
Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. …
When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the “largest architectural shift in over a decade,” they ain’t kidding. …
It is a relatively quiet International Supercomputing conference on the hardware front, with no new processors or switch ASICs being announced from the usual suspects. …
Any time a server maker comes into the global market and bypasses Cisco Systems, Lenovo, and IBM to become the third largest seller of machines in the world, you should pay attention. …
No question about it. Intel had to get a lot of moving pieces all meshing well to deliver the “Ice Lake” Xeon SP server processors, which came out earlier this month and which have actually been shipping to a few dozen select customers since the end of 2020. …
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