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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. …
DPU
Compute
MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs
Updated With More MGX Specs: Whenever a compute engine maker also does motherboards as well as system designs, those companies that make motherboards (there are dozens who do) and create system designs (the original design manufacturers and the original – get a little bit nervous as well as a bit relieved. …
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Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
Compute
The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business
The old AMD – the one before Lisa Su took over – was often brilliant with its instruction set architecture and CPU designs, but sometimes perplexingly careless with its design choices and chip roadmaps. …
Control
Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …
Compute
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
Connect
AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching
In the past several decades, data processing and storage systems could be architected from best of breed components, and the market could – and did – sustain multiple suppliers of competing technologies in each of the categories of compute, networking, and storage. …
Compute
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
Connect
Intel Unrolls DPU Roadmap, With A Two Year Cadence
There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …
Compute
The Future Is Still Wide Open For Arm In The Datacenter
There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …