When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing speaks, the datacenter sector of the IT industry listens because, with few exceptions, this foundry etches the compute, networking, and storage engines that power the datacenter. …
The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in early 2021, the same year that the company was supposed to launch is much-touted fourth-generation Xeon SP processor, dubbed “Sapphire Rapids.” …
With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you are thinking that you are having flashbacks as Intel is launching the “Sapphire Rapids” server CPUs – the company’s fourth generation in the Xeon SP family of server processors – you are not alone. …
The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nearly two years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a new battle plan for storage and a new kind of storage array to implement it. …
HPE Adapts Boosted Alletra Storage For GreenLake Utility Consumption was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …
Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …
Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We were under the distinct impression that AMD was not going to talk much about its datacenter compute engines at the Consumer Electronics Show, having just launched its “Genoa” Epyc 9004 server CPUs in November with much fanfare. …
AMD Teases Details On Future MI300 Hybrid Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Gigabyte Technology’s enterprise server division has been spun off under a new logo: Giga Computing. …
Gigabyte Spins Off Server Division To Chase Datacenter Business was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
By every measure we can get our hands on, 2022 was a bumper year for server shipments and server spending, which is good indicator for the appetite for new kinds of applications and the expansion of existing applications in the world at large. …
The Interesting Years Ahead For Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supermicro has become the latest of the big OEMs to add Arm-based systems to its portfolio, with the launch of its Mt. …
Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Intel has a lot at stake with its oneAPI software stack. …
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Two observations. One: When the world goes into recession, the server market has immediately followed. …
The World Is Still Hungry For Servers – For Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …
Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The chief technology officers in the tech world have done their time in the engineering trenches, writing their papers, getting their patents, and helping suppliers up and down the IT supply chain make the money that keeps the innovation flowing. …
Making Sure AMD Has The Complete Tech Package was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there is a recession underway – and we are not convinced that there is even a little bit – then the Ethernet switch market did not get the memo. …
Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In many industries, embracing AI in the application software stack it is not just a matter of training some large language models or recommender systems against general and then specific datasets and plugging it in. …
Deutsche Bank Tag Teams With Nvidia On Financial Services AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Three years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first major hardware and software infrastructure vendor to announce plans to make its entire portfolio available as a service, setting 2022 as the deadline for making that happen. …
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: We all know that inferencing and training AI models needs a lot of CPU muscle, but we don’t necessarily appreciate how important other components are in supporting AI and ML applications. …
CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
In the past three decades, there has been no shortage of companies with interesting ideas to solve very specific data storage and retrieval problems associated with high performance computing in some form or another. …
Can Anyone Make Money From Modern Storage? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. …
Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency? was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.