Nvidia's data center customers are postponing Blackwell chip orders due to overheating and other issues
Hyperscalers like Microsoft and AWS delay orders worth billions
Microsoft develops GreenSKU framework to limit environmental cost of server hardware
Leveraging memory pooling and RAID arrays
Apple may be working on a custom AI server chip with Broadcom's help
Slated for 2026, Apple would be leveraging Broadcom's 3.5D XDSiP technology
Chocolate maker Cadbury is fighting AI by injecting gibberish into training data
"Is AI truly reducing our workload or only causing us to work faster?"
Arctic's new 8,000 RPM case fans absolutely scream at full bore
Server-grade fans that move 220 CFM of air
Intel will respond to AMD's 3D V-Cache with server-bound Clearwater Forest, not desktop CPUs
Servers are more important to Intel than gaming
Apple turns to Foxconn and Lenovo to build new AI servers based on Apple Silicon
Cupertino wants to build new servers for inference
The $120,000 Titan A900 crams 6TB of RAM into what's quite possibly the world's most powerful desktop PC
The top-tier model includes a 256-core server processor
AMD unveils passively-cooled Radeon Pro V710 GPU with 28GB of VRAM
You probably can't buy it, though
Intel unveils record-breaking $17,800 price for 128-core Xeon 6980P processor
It is the most expensive CPU to date
Fujitsu and Supermicro partner to build Arm-based, liquid-cooled AI data centers
A high-performance, energy-efficient platform
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