Compute
Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might
This day always comes. It is the nature of monopoly and hubris. …
Xeon
Compute
Aurora In A Socket: What Intel’s “Falcon Shores” XPU Might Do
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
The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD
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. …
Compute
Enterprises Fill In The Hyperscaler Gap For Intel’s Datacenter Business
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
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …
Compute
Intel Back To Playing The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking. …
Compute
The Cheapest Compute In The Intel Xeon Lineup
While the minimalist server processor — and the microserver concept that was based upon it — did not take over the datacenters of the world, there are still some workloads that can fit in modestly powered single-socket CPUs just fine. …
Compute
AMD Finally Breaks The 10 Percent Server Share Barrier
History doesn’t really repeat itself, but it surely does use a lot of synonyms and rhymes, and sometimes, if you listen very closely, you can catch it muttering to itself. …
HPC
The Cloud Lets Engineers Access Powerful Multiphysics Solvers
Digitally prototyping complex designs, such as large physical structures, biological features, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) requires supercomputers running sophisticated multiphysics solvers. …
Compute
The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling The Hangover
All good parties come to an end, and the one that Intel has enjoyed for an unbelievable dozen years, starting with the rollout of the “Nehalem” Xeon E5500 processors back in March 2009, is over. …