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. …
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking. …
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. …
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. …
Digitally prototyping complex designs, such as large physical structures, biological features, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) requires supercomputers running sophisticated multiphysics solvers. …
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. …
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. …
Somewhere nearly a decade ago, we made a joke when looking at the rise of the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
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