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
Industry Hardware Intel teams up with other tech giants for Compute Express Link, a high-speed interconnect for data centers Improving performance and removing bottlenecks By Rob Thubron, March 12, 2019, 5:25 AM
Industry Nvidia makes $6.9 billion acquisition in bid for chip maker Mellanox Intel was also in a bidding war for the Israeli startup By Rob Thubron, March 11, 2019, 7:02 AM
Science Space The Square Kilometer Array telescope is ten times bigger than any other in existence Pushing petabits every second to supercomputers By Greg Synek, February 26, 2019, 9:50 AM
Industry Data centers are using two percent of the world's energy Demand is only going to grow By Greg Synek, November 20, 2018, 9:20 AM
Industry Hardware AMD launches Zen 2 for the datacenter: world's first x86 CPU built on 7nm Double the cores, higher IPC, more power savings By Paul Taylor, November 6, 2018, 2:31 PM 27 comments
Industry Opinion: Oracle wants to make a case as cloud computing provider Oracle's take on the cloud from the first day of the OpenWorld event in San Francisco By Bob O'Donnell, October 23, 2018, 11:07 AM
Industry The Web Wikileaks dumps Amazon data center locations for all to see AWS holds a lot of government data shrouded by secrecy By Greg Synek, October 12, 2018, 9:20 AM 10 comments
Hardware Intel Stratix 10 programmable acceleration card offers enormous bandwidth and simplifies development Hardware acceleration usable by non-engineers By Greg Synek, September 25, 2018, 9:02 AM
Industry Hardware Former Intel president's startup launches new processors to compete in data centers Intel may be beaten to 7nm by ex-president By Greg Synek, September 18, 2018, 9:31 AM
Industry Amazon is one of the largest consumers of electricity but is offloading costs onto others Amazon claims electricity discounts are trade secrets By Greg Synek, August 20, 2018, 8:49 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Intel shows off Xeon roadmap through 2020, pushes 10nm further back Xeon "AI-infused" chips to debut this year, but 10nm only in 2020 By Paul Taylor, August 9, 2018, 11:23 AM
Microsoft Microsoft submerges a data center off the coast of Scotland True confidence in reliability since no physical access is possible By Greg Synek, June 6, 2018, 8:40 AM 23 comments
Apple Industry Apple cancels plans for $1 billion data center in Ireland after long delays Three years is longer than Cupertino is willing to wait By Greg Synek, May 10, 2018, 12:21 PM
Microsoft Industry Microsoft doubles down on wind energy to power data centers A second large wind project in Europe for Microsoft By Greg Synek, November 2, 2017, 11:44 AM