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Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines
Google may be buying heavens only knows how many GPUs to run HPC and AI workloads on its eponymous public cloud, and it may have talked recently about how it is committed to the idea of pushing the industry to innovate at the SoC level and staying out of designing its own compute engines, but the company is still building its own Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs for short, to support its TensorFlow machine learning framework and the applications it drives within Google and as a service for Google Cloud customers. …
Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure
The things we like best about watching the high end of the IT sector are seeing new technologies come out that have the potential to change the IT landscape and then seeing some market data that proves a technology either did or did not foment the expected change. …
Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James
Outside of the HPC market where there are a number of companies that have delivered or are working on Arm-based server processors, Ampere Computing is the main independent supplier of Arm-based server chips with its current 80-core Altra chips and its impending 128-core Altra Max chips, which are sampling now and will start shipping in the third quarter. …
Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware
Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that on of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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. …
AMD Finally Breaks The 10 Percent Server Share Barrier was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins
It has been a long time coming. Over two years, in fact. …
The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Chips In To Drive 2 Nanometer Semiconductor Manufacturing
Big Blue got out of the chip foundry business when it sold off its IBM Microelectronics division to GlobalFoundries, itself a spinout of AMD, in 2014. …
IBM Chips In To Drive 2 Nanometer Semiconductor Manufacturing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover
The top brass at FPGA maker Xilinx are not hosting calls with Wall Street because of the pending $35 billion acquisition of the company by AMD, so we are left to get our own insight out of the financial report and accompanying statement that Xilinx has released for its latest quarterly results. …
Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Balancing Performance, Capacity, And Budget For AI Training
If the world was not a complex place, and if all machine learning training looked more or less the same, then there would only be one accelerator to goose training workloads. …
Balancing Performance, Capacity, And Budget For AI Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money
What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …
The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inspur Rises On The Wave of AI Servers In The Datacenter
Machine learning techniques based on massive amounts of data and GPU accelerators to chew through it are now almost a decade old. …
Inspur Rises On The Wave of AI Servers In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Hits Intel Below The Belt In The Datacenter Wallet
What Intel calls “cloud digestion” as the cause of the massive pullback in spending in its Data Center Group is looking more and more like a case of “Epyc indigestion” for Intel, not for the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
AMD Hits Intel Below The Belt In The Datacenter Wallet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm Puts Some Muscle Into Future Neoverse Server CPU Designs
Arm is hosting its annual Tech Day shindig, virtually (again) thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, and is providing a lot more insight into the future Neoverse core and processor designs that will be adopted and modified by those who have a hankering to take on the hegemony of the X86 processor – which now includes pretty solid CPUs from Intel and AMD – in the datacenter and at the edge. …
Arm Puts Some Muscle Into Future Neoverse Server CPU Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking Servers With Inspur And Intel
Any time a server maker comes into the global market and bypasses Cisco Systems, Lenovo, and IBM to become the third largest seller of machines in the world, you should pay attention. …
Talking Servers With Inspur And Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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. …
The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling The Hangover was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Enters The Arms Race With Homegrown “Grace” CPUs
There has been talk and cajoling and rumor for years that GPU juggernaut Nvidia would jump into the Arm server CPU chip arena once again and actually deliver a product that has unique differentiation and a compelling value proposition, particularly for hybrid CPU-GPU compute complexes. …
Nvidia Enters The Arms Race With Homegrown “Grace” CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs?
Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. …
Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Fields A 10 Nanometer Server Chip That Competes
At long last, Intel is finally shipping a Xeon SP processor that is based on a 10 nanometer chip manufacturing process and it is finally able to do a better job competing on the technical and economic merits of its Xeon SP processors as architected rather than playing the total system card or the risk card or the discount card to keep its core datacenter compute engine business humming along. …
Intel Fields A 10 Nanometer Server Chip That Competes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.