Compute
Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake
Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass house. …
Xeon
Compute
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter
Despite the increasing competitive pressures that Intel is feeling in the datacenter and very serious issues that the company is having ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes, the datacenter business at Intel were booming in the second quarter, helping to drive a record second quarter and what is looking like will be a record full year for the chip maker. …
Compute
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. …
Compute
Intel Takes Entry Xeons Up To Coffee Lake
The line between Intel’s high end desktop, midrange workstation, and low end servers has always been a blurry one, and changing the naming conventions on its products has not really changed the Intel strategy one bit. …
Compute
Why Intel Must Respond To AMD’s Single Socket Threat
There are so many ironies in the hardware business that it is amazing that we aren’t covered in rust. …
Cloud
AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring
The server market has been spoiling for a fight for so long that it is hard to remember a time when there was intense competition across multiple processor vendors and architectures. …
AI
A Peek Inside That Intel Xeon-FPGA Hybrid Chip
Last week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo, Lisa Spelman, who is general manager of Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, did a soft announcement of the hybrid Xeon CPU-Arria 10 FPGA hybrid chip that the company has been talking about for years and that is now available to selected customers. …
Cloud
Getting Logical About Cavium ThunderX2 Versus Intel Skylake
Any processor that hopes to displace the Xeon as the engine of choice for general purpose compute has to do one of two things, and we would argue both: It has to be a relatively seamless replacement for a Xeon processor inside of existing systems, much as the Opteron was back in the early 2000s, and it has to offer compelling advantages that yield better performance per dollar per watt per unit of space in a rack. …
Uncategorized
Sluggish Moore’s Law Doesn’t Impede Intel One Bit
The demand for compute is so strong among the hyperscalers and cloud builders that nothing seems to be slowing down Intel’s datacenter business. …
HPC
Argonne Hints at Future Architecture of Aurora Exascale System
There are two supercomputers named “Aurora” that are affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory – the one that was supposed to be built this year and the one that for a short time last year was known as “A21,” that will be built in 2021, and that will be the first exascale system built in the United States. …