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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 Takes The Big Restructuring Hits As It Looks Ahead
It is beginning to look like chip maker Intel hit the bottom in its products and foundry businesses in the second quarter of this year and that revenues are slowly – we won’t go so far as to say surely – improving. …
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Intel And AMD Make X Less Of A Variable For X86 Processors
One of the oldest ideas in humanity – and one that may have predated language as we know it – is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. …
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AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs
If you are looking to upgrade your X86 server fleet – and there is lots of chatter about how many enterprises as well as hyperscalers and cloud builders are in the financial mood to do that – then the good news is that both Intel and AMD have now rolled out the best serial compute engines they have ever fielded. …
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How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance
Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis. …
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Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter
Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …
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Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter
UPDATED: Intel has been talking about its “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 processors for so long that it would be easy to forget that they have not yet been formally announced. …
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The Irony Of AWS Being Intel’s Latest Savior
Intel needs a whole lot of big wins for both its chip design and selling business and its increasingly arm’s length foundry business if it is going to turn itself around and be competitive with AMD and Nvidia on the left hand and with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on its right. …
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Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028
Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …
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The Resurrection Of Intel Will Take More Than Three Days
Intel’s second quarter is pretty much a carbon copy of the first three months of 2024 when it comes to revenues across its newly constituted groups, and with an operating loss that is twice as big. …