Compute
Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two?
People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …
AMD
Connect
Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU
There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …
Compute
AMD Moves Up Instinct MI355X Launch As Datacenter Biz Hits Records
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. …
Compute
The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs
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. …
Compute
Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal
Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. …
HPC
HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale
The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …
Store
Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M
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. …
Connect
Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs
Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. …
AI
Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell
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. …
HPC
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …