The HPC centers of the world like fast networks and compute, but they are also always working under budget constraints unlike their AI peers out there in the enterprise, where money seems to be unlimited to what sometimes looks like an irrationally exuberant extent. …
It is no secret that chip maker Intel is having a tough time these days on a number of fronts, but it is important to remember that nearly two out of every three processors sold into the datacenter are Intel Inside. …
When we first started The Next Platform a decade ago, there was not really much of a reason to cover the company’s datacenter efforts. …
Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes.
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …
Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …
Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. …
Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …
Lisu Su has turned in her first ten years at the helm of AMD, and what a hell of a run it has been. …
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. …
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