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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. …
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The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won
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. …
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Intel Hits Bottom In The Datacenter – Maybe
It would be hard to pick a worse time to not have an XPU offload engine that can do lots of matrix math at mixed precision and that can ship in volume. …
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Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
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The Tough Road Still Ahead For Intel In The Datacenter
A few years back, when Intel went up on the rocks with its CPU and GPU designs largely because its chip research and manufacturing did not keep pace with the manufacturing and packaging advances made by foundry rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, we said that we were rapidly moving towards a world where Intel might have 40 percent of the CPU market, AMD might have 40 percent, and Arm and RISC-V would fight over the remaining 19 percent and 1 percent remaining for other exotic datacenter compute engine chippery. …
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Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks
With each successive Intel Xeon SP server processor launch, we can’t help but think the same thing: it would have been better for Intel and customers alike if this chip was out the door a year ago, or two years ago, as must have been planned. …
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Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part Two
Welcome to the second part of our Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths series. …
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Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part One
There has always been a certain amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IT vendors sow as they try to protect their positions in markets that they participate in. …
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Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon
Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. …
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The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …