Compute
The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …
Graviton
Compute
AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown
When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to resurgence, it was Intel that controlled the cadence of new compute engine introductions into the datacenter. …
Compute
Move Over X86, Amazon’s Arm HPC instances Are Live
When it comes to deploying Arm in the cloud, a lot of the talk of late has centered on things like efficiency, core density, or predictability of performance. …
Compute
Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm
When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. …
Compute
The Value Proposition For Amazon’s Graviton3 Server Chip
As is well known, we like feed and speeds and slots and watts metrics here at The Next Platform for any kind of gear that runs in the datacenter. …
Compute
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor
The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer. …
Compute
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Cloud
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Cloud
AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …