Windows 11's latest update doubles file copying speeds with support for ReFS format
The format isn't designed for consumer use, though
Remember AMI BIOS? Turns out there's a buried treasure in firmware
You might also remember them from their "American Megatrends" BIOS days
The big picture: Firmware is one of those obscure areas of computing that is simultaneously critical yet largely ignored. Not coincidentally, we have been doing a lot of work lately digging around such dark corners of the industry. Despite the ubiquitous nature of firmware, almost no one talks about it much.
AMD's Epyc server CPU gets shoehorned into consumer motherboard, overclocked to 6.6GHz
The server chips are actually quite similar to the Ryzen 7000 series
How to build a server in "100 easy steps": The growing pains of modern data centers
Configuring GPU data centers is proving to be a headache
Dell's AI-focused strategy pays off with 38 percent growth in hardware infrastructure revenue
Running generative AI requires of more servers and infrastructure, and Dell is selling a lot of that
AMD's $5 billion ZT acquisition: Strategic play or overpriced gamble?
Bottom line: The strategic rationale behind AMD acquiring ZT makes sense, to a point, but $5 billion is a lot to pay, especially when the true value of the transaction relies heavily on the price AMD will get when they spin off ZT's manufacturing unit.
Intel accidentally leaks monstrous 9,324-pin socket for "Diamond Rapids" Xeon CPUs
Intel's next move in the server CPU wars
Nvidia to showcase Blackwell server installations at Hot Chips 2024
Nvidia's AI and data center roadmap, and more use cases for the Blackwell tech stack
AMD just spent $4.9 billion to buy hyperscale server maker ZT Systems
The move should boost AMD's AI infrastructure presence
Benchmarks tease upcoming Intel Granite Rapids 120-core, 240-thread monster CPU
With these numbers, Intel has AMD's Epyc lineup squarely in its sight
Keeping Intel's next-gen node on schedule: Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest boot up on 18A
External foundry customers are already designing chips on the process
Micron says its new 9550 Gen5 drive is the world's fastest data center SSD
Bringing blistering IOPS speeds for data centers
MySQL vs. MariaDB: a brief comparison guide
MySQL is one of the most popular relational databases. MariaDB is a fork from the original MySQL codebase.
Amazon Graviton4 server CPU shown beating AMD and Intel processors in multiple benchmarks
Performance was particularly impressive in HPC tests
Gigabyte stuffs 48 DDR5 memory slots onto a standard server board
You can never have too much memory
AMD approached to make world's fastest AI supercomputer powered by 1.2 million GPU
Forward-looking: It's no secret that Nvidia has been the dominant GPU supplier to data centers, but now there is a very real possibility that AMD might become a serious contender in this market as demand grows. AMD was recently approached by a client asking to create an AI training cluster consisting of a staggering 1.2 million GPUs. That would potentially make it 30x more powerful than Frontier, the current fastest supercomputer. AMD supplied less than 2% of data center GPUs in 2023.
Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success
There were fewer server failures compared to land data centers
PCIe 7.0 achieves impressive 128 GT/s in optical connection demonstration
Optical connections poised to succeed CopperLink as the future of PCIe
You can buy a $2.4 million home in Texas with no bedrooms, one bathroom, and a liquid cooling immersion system
Great for data centers, crypto farms, and more
Disgruntled ex-employee deletes 180 test servers, costing company nearly $680,000
Go to jail, go directly to jail
Tech companies form the "Ultra Accelerator Link" group to create an open connectivity standard for AI accelerators
Trying to escape Nvidia's monopoly on server GPUs and related technologies
Infineon is cooking up 12 kW power supplies for energy-hungry AI data centers
Next-generation PSUs with improved efficiency and power delivery
Unbuilt data centers in high demand as firms secure space years in advance
Shortfall looms as construction fails to meet surging demand
Why is Apple making a data center chip?
"ACDC" (Apple Chips in Data Center) would be the clear winner in 2024's chip naming competition
Editor's take: Of course, Apple is designing its own AI chips for its data centers. This will give them an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge AI system that its competitors will not be able to match anytime soon.
AMD's consumer and server CPU sales surge, driven by latest Ryzen and Epyc chips
But Intel still holds a massive lead