AMD Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/amd/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:33:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg AMD Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/amd/ 32 32 86113652 Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:47:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145323 People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …

Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/feed/ 5 145323 Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/cisco-cuts-network-costs-by-welding-nexus-switch-to-amd-dpu/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/cisco-cuts-network-costs-by-welding-nexus-switch-to-amd-dpu/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:31:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145287 There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …

Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/cisco-cuts-network-costs-by-welding-nexus-switch-to-amd-dpu/feed/ 0 145287 AMD Moves Up Instinct MI355X Launch As Datacenter Biz Hits Records https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/04/amd-moves-up-instinct-355x-launch-as-datacenter-biz-hits-records/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/04/amd-moves-up-instinct-355x-launch-as-datacenter-biz-hits-records/#comments Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:20:28 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145259 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. …

AMD Moves Up Instinct MI355X Launch As Datacenter Biz Hits Records was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/04/amd-moves-up-instinct-355x-launch-as-datacenter-biz-hits-records/feed/ 2 145259 The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:45:28 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239 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. …

The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/feed/ 7 145239 Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/24/brad-mccredie-is-the-pedal-to-amds-datacenter-gpu-metal/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/24/brad-mccredie-is-the-pedal-to-amds-datacenter-gpu-metal/#comments Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:14:23 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145219 Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. …

Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/24/brad-mccredie-is-the-pedal-to-amds-datacenter-gpu-metal/feed/ 1 145219 HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/21/hlrs-takes-first-steps-to-exascale/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/21/hlrs-takes-first-steps-to-exascale/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:38:16 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145208 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.” …

HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/21/hlrs-takes-first-steps-to-exascale/feed/ 1 145208 Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:09:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178 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. …

Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/feed/ 6 145178 Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/11/nvidia-amd-and-intel-help-stuff-the-coffers-at-ayar-labs/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/11/nvidia-amd-and-intel-help-stuff-the-coffers-at-ayar-labs/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:07:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145125 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. …

Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/11/nvidia-amd-and-intel-help-stuff-the-coffers-at-ayar-labs/feed/ 1 145125 Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/27/fat-server-spending-props-up-slowing-ai-servers-at-dell/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/27/fat-server-spending-props-up-slowing-ai-servers-at-dell/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:45:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145065 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. …

Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/27/fat-server-spending-props-up-slowing-ai-servers-at-dell/feed/ 0 145065 HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/hpe-upgrades-supercomputer-lineup-top-to-bottom-in-2025/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:19:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145055 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. …

HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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