Hardware Industry If you haven't been paying attention, Nvidia is no longer a gaming company Nvidia steps up enterprise and automotive efforts with GTC announcements By Bob O'Donnell , April 13, 2021, 6:08 AM 37 comments
Microsoft Electronics Microsoft is testing two-phase immersion cooling to keep servers from overheating A technique borrowed from cryptocurrency miners By Shawn Knight , April 6, 2021, 11:36 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Amazon is ditching Nvidia GPUs in favor of their own silicon Alexa is being powered by Amazon's own chips By Isaiah Mayersen , November 15, 2020, 9:55 AM 14 comments
Hardware Western Digital unveils the Ultrastar DC ZN540, the world's first ZNS SSD The new drive can replace four traditional SSDs in enterprise systems By Adrian Potoroaca , November 11, 2020, 7:10 PM
Microsoft Microsoft develops a portable, box-shaped data center to bring the cloud to remote areas Through the power of SpaceX's Starlink broadband service By Cohen Coberly , October 21, 2020, 11:42 AM
Hardware Industry Nuvia raises $240 million to make Arm-based server CPUs Ex-Apple employees are readying chips that could take the market by storm By Adrian Potoroaca , September 24, 2020, 5:36 PM
Microsoft Microsoft brings more hyper-converged hybrid cloud options to Azure HCI combines all the elements of a data center: compute, storage and networking, into a single, software-defined box By Bob O'Donnell , July 21, 2020, 3:06 PM
Industry Samsung says profits are up 23%, despite the lockdowns The rise of remote working benefited the firm By Rob Thubron , July 7, 2020, 9:56 AM
Hardware Nvidia reveals PCIe 4.0 version of its Ampere A100 GPU It's not for consumers By Rob Thubron , June 22, 2020, 9:39 AM 9 comments
Industry AI Intel is sacrificing previous AI acquisitions for Habana They've traded one AI startup for another By Isaiah Mayersen , February 2, 2020, 11:24 AM
Hardware Industry Groq launches the first AI accelerator card capable of 1 PetaOPS Up to 320x better latency than Nvidia's Tesla V100 By Isaiah Mayersen , January 25, 2020, 12:10 PM 18 comments
Hardware Apple You can now order the rack-mountable Mac Pro Almost identical to the tower version, but $500 more By Rob Thubron , January 15, 2020, 10:27 AM
Hardware Industry Opinion: Amazon's Graviton2 CPU highlights Arm presence in cloud compute Graviton2 is Amazon's new CPU that is powering new AWS servers By Bob O'Donnell , December 10, 2019, 10:35 AM
Industry Hardware Former Apple chip execs launch startup to take on AMD, Intel in the data center Nuvia sees a big opportunity in the data center space By Shawn Knight , November 15, 2019, 1:04 PM
Hardware AMD details Zen 3 and Zen 4 alongside roadmap for next-gen Epyc Milan and Genoa CPUs Future upgrades include 7nm+, denser cache, a new socket, and DDR5 By Eric Hamilton , October 6, 2019, 10:42 AM 9 comments
Hardware AMD unveils its 2nd-gen Epyc CPUs, "the world's fastest x86 processors" 64 Cores, 128 Threads, $6,950 By Rob Thubron , August 8, 2019, 3:27 AM 20 comments
Hardware Dell will triple its AMD Epyc server lineup with 7nm offerings Epyc Rome has great potential By Isaiah Mayersen , May 5, 2019, 9:58 AM
Hardware Intel's Xe GPUs will feature hardware-level ray tracing support Taking the fight to Nvidia By Rob Thubron , May 2, 2019, 5:25 AM 20 comments
Hardware Intel readying Xeon Gold U-series to combat Epyc P-series The new CPUs would cost roughly half of Xeon Platinum By Eric Hamilton , April 14, 2019, 9:16 AM
Hardware Industry Intel demos the 400G, a 400Gbps transceiver for the datacenter Fast is getting faster By Isaiah Mayersen , April 13, 2019, 11:17 AM
Industry Google partners with Intel to power Anthos and new Google Cloud virtual machines Google Cloud will be among the first to adopt Intel's Optane DC Persistent Memory By Eric Hamilton , April 10, 2019, 10:28 AM
Hardware Opinion: Intel helps drive data center advancements It is a bit surprising that it took Intel this long... By Bob O'Donnell , April 9, 2019, 7:35 AM
Hardware Intel shows off Xeon Platinum CPU with up to 56 cores and 112 threads Intel's latest datacenter chips are here By Cohen Coberly , April 2, 2019, 3:11 PM 28 comments
Hardware Industry AMD Epyc could force Intel's server market share below 90 percent Epyc's price to performance ratio and the looming 7nm Rome are key factors By Eric Hamilton , April 1, 2019, 7:39 AM
Industry Opinion: Data center evolution reaffirmed after Nvidia purchase and new high-speed interconnect development Heterogeneous computing coming to life By Bob O'Donnell , March 12, 2019, 11:31 AM