Compute
Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc
The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in the tooth. …
Xeon
Compute
Forging A Hybrid CPU-FPGA Supercomputer
It is hard to say for sure, but a very substantial part of the hard work in buying supercomputers and creating simulations and models that tell us about the real world around us gets done in thousands of academic research institutions worldwide. …
Cloud
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons
When this is all done, Intel might have wished it had kept Renee James as president and chief executive officer, because Ampere, an Arm server chip startup that James has been running since this spring, wants a big piece of the Xeon datacenter business and it has the financial backing to start a price war that others can win and only Intel can lose. …
Compute
The Skinny On Future Cascade Lake Xeons
The changes to the Xeon server chip architecture and the consequent server platforms are going to be a bit thin here in 2018 after a pretty big jump with the “Skylake” Xeon SP processors and the related “Purley” platforms that launched back in July 2017. …
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. …
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. …