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Drilling Down Into The SiPearl European Arm Server Chip
The European Union has made it clear that it wants to be able to stand on its own two feet in the design of server processors, for both general purpose uses and for exascale-class supercomputers. …
Drilling Down Into The SiPearl European Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Next IBM Platform, Revisited
When IBM announced that it was acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion eighteen months ago, one of the things we said that Big Blue needed most and would get from taking over – but not messing with – the world’s largest commercial open source software company was a coherent story that it could tell to its customers about how IBM, which more than any other company helped define data processing, was still relevant to the future. …
The Next IBM Platform, Revisited was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Big Will Get Bigger Because We Need Them To
In the coming weeks and months, particularly as we are entering the financial reporting season for the first quarter of 2020, we are naturally going to be looking for any good news we can find. …
The Big Will Get Bigger Because We Need Them To was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak started to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2020. …
The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How Edge Is Different From Cloud – And Not
As the dominant supplier of commercial-grade open source infrastructure software, Red Hat sets the pace and it is not a surprise that IBM was willing to shell out an incredible $34 billion to acquire the company. …
How Edge Is Different From Cloud – And Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Cranks The Rome Clocks, Keeping The Heat On Intel
One size definitely does not fit all workloads and one budget when it comes to server processors. …
AMD Cranks The Rome Clocks, Keeping The Heat On Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet
The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and it only stands to reason that they, rather than the IEEE, would want to drive the standards for faster Ethernet networks. …
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” …
IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
CXL And Gen-Z Iron Out A Coherent Interconnect Strategy
To one way of looking at it, a reprise of the Bus Wars from days gone by in the late 1980s and early 1990s would have been a lot of fun. …
CXL And Gen-Z Iron Out A Coherent Interconnect Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Tachyum Starts From Scratch To Etch A Universal Processor
For the past five years or so, there has been a lot of talk about accelerated computing being the new normal and about the era of the general purpose processor being over in the datacenter, and for good reason. …
Tachyum Starts From Scratch To Etch A Universal Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection
The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips
Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry is going to need lower prices, better performance, and better thermal profiles for their compute engines than they have ever required before. …
Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level
While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …
Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us
Server component and system maker Supermicro is known for being out in front when any X86 processor comes to market and often shoots the gap between ODMs, who have a relatively small number of large customers, and OEMs, who have a large number of relatively small customers. …
Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Mellanox Doubles Up Ethernet Bandwidth With Spectrum-3
The relentless need for bandwidth is probably something that all of us are well aware of these days in our home lives thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Mellanox Doubles Up Ethernet Bandwidth With Spectrum-3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs
At some point, Moore’s Law increases in performance are going to hit a wall when it comes to datacenter networks. …
Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition of Broadcom’s Arm server chip assets), is hitting back with some revelations about its future “Triton” ThunderX3 chip and its roadmap out beyond that. …
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession
Excepting some potholes here and there and a few times when the hyperscalers and cloud builders tapped the brakes, it has been one hell of a run in the last decade for servers. …
The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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. …
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.