Compute
Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains
The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. …
Xilinx
Compute
AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …
Compute
Pondering That Rumored $30 Billion AMD Acquisition Of Xilinx
You can have a strategy, but you can’t buy one.
Nothing illustrates this principle more than the networking buying binges that both Intel and AMD went on nearly a decade ago, which did not really amount to much in the end but which made some sort of sense in the middle of it all happening. …
Compute
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter
With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …
Compute
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms
It has been a long time since plain vanilla programmable logic circuits known as field programmable gate arrays have been available in a raw form. …
Compute
A Flare For SmartNICs
As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …
Compute
How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs?
If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. …
Connect
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
Compute
Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share?
Over a decade ago we would not have expected accelerators to have be commonplace in the datacenter. …
Compute
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …