
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
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. …
The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …
Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we have pointed out before, large enterprises have to deal with a different kind of scale issue than the hyperscalers, and in many ways, the hyperscalers have it easier. …
The Opposite Of Snowflake: Analytics Without The Data Warehouse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …
The Future Is Still Wide Open For Arm In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While a $1.25 billion hit to the Nvidia books after the company terminated its $40 billion deal to acquire chip designer Arm Holdings from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group this week is a big deal, the fact that Nvidia and SoftBank were going to see a lot of regulatory scrutiny and IT market resistance is no surprise. …
What Nvidia Can’t Buy, It Can Still Get Through An Arm Partnership was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how it is competing against its main rival, Intel – specifically, the Programmable Solutions Group, formerly known as the free-standing Altera before the latter was acquired by Intel in June 2015 for $16.7 billion. …
Xilinx Benefits From Intel FPGA Shortages was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What company has the lowest IT spending budget in the world, but has also paradoxically spent more money than any company in history investing in creating a new, modern, cloud-native system that is capable of running just about any application at just about any necessary scale? …
Millions Pay AWS To Give Amazon An Insurmountable IT Advantage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The “Everest” family of hybrid compute engines made by Xilinx, which have lots of programmable logic surrounded by hardened transistor blocks and which are sold under the Versal brand, have been known for so long that we sometimes forget – or can’t believe – that Versal chips are not yet available as standalone products in the datacenter or within the Alveo line of PCI-Express cards from the chip maker. …
Xilinx Works From The Edge Towards Datacenters With Versal FPGA Hybrids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server virtualization has been around a long time, has come to different classes of machines and architectures over the decades to drive efficiency increases, and has seemingly reached a level of maturity that means we don’t have to give it a lot of thought. …
A Complete Rethinking Of Server Virtualization Hypervisors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All of the commercial platform creators in the world, since the dawn of time, which arguably started in the enterprise in April 1964 with the advent of the System/360 mainframe, wants the same things. …
For IBM, AI Inference Is The Most Important HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Whenever one company buys another, every product line, every research project, and every employee is ultimately in play. …
Cray’s Slingshot Interconnect Is At The Heart Of HPE’s HPC And AI Ambitions was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The IT industry is at the doorstep of the long-awaited exascale era, which promises massive systems that can run at least one exaflops, or a quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second, at 64-bit precision and a lot more than that at lower precision and even more using low-precision integer data pumped through their vector and matrix engines. …
HPC As A Service Comes Full Circle And Will Help Take HPC Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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. …
Enterprises Fill In The Hyperscaler Gap For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The company was named International Business Machines for a reason, and over the several decades that IBM concentrated on peddling managed services and consulting services to the largest corporations on Earth, with its Global Services behemoth representing two-thirds of its revenues, the company lost touch with, and took for granted, the machine part of its rich and long heritage. …
Can A Leaner IBM Be Mean Enough To Grow In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For nearly two years, the world has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic and it has had obvious and consequential effects on the market for hardware, software, and services in the datacenter. …
The Future Comes Back Into The Equation For IT Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you thought it took a lot of compute and storage to build Facebook’s social network, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
Meta Buys, Rather Than Builds And Opens, Its Massive AI Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …
In The Absence Of A Xeon Roadmap, Intel Makes Us Draw One was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The gradual trend of IT organizations spending more on dedicated or shared cloud infrastructure than they do on non-cloudy gear continues its inevitable, glacial transformation. …
As 2021 Wound Down, Big Clouds Did Record Spending On Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Not every manufacturing node comes out perfectly and not every one comes out on time, but in the past decade and a half, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest and most technologically advanced etcher of chips in the world, has done far better than any of its few remaining peers to push the chip manufacturing envelope while also maintaining consistent and profitable production of older nodes. …
The Money Printing Press That Is Chip Maker TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.