Server Market Contracts, HPE Gains Market Share
The global server market contacted for the first time since 2016 after a year of historic growth, signaling an abundance of IT capacity and economic uncertainty as global trade ...Full Article
AI Supercomputer-on-a-Wafer Debuted by Cerebras
Could wafer-scale silicon from Cerebras Systems be the first “supercomputer on a chip” worthy of the designation? Last week at Hot Chips at Stanford University, the Silicon Valley startup ...Full Article
At Hot Chips, Intel Shows New Nervana AI Training, Inference Chips
At the Hot Chips conference last week, Intel showcased its latest neural network processor accelerators for both AI training and inference, along with details of its hybrid chip packaging ...Full Article
Google, Intel Beef Up Anthos Cloud
Google is ramping up its Anthos cloud services platform with next-general Intel Xeon Scalable processors as the partners broaden their cloud collaboration around hybrid and multiple cloud deployments. Anthos, ...Full Article
OCP Storage Hits the Datacenter
The emerging market for storage equipment based on the Open Compute Project is expected to more than double through 2023, according to datacenter storage equipment forecast. IHS Markit said ...Full Article
Xilinx Says Its New FPGA is World’s Largest
In this age of exploding “technology disaggregation” – in which the Big Bang emanating from the Intel x86 CPU has produced significant advances in CPU chips and a raft ...Full Article
Photonics Chiplet Startup Touts Terabit/Second I/O Bandwidth, 10X Lower Power
Silicon startup Ayar Labs continues to gain momentum with its optical chiplet technology that puts advanced electronics and optics on the same chip using standard CMOS fabrication. At Hot ...Full Article
Talk to Me: Nvidia Claims NLP Inference, Training Records
Nvidia says it’s achieved significant advances in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex, immediate-response interchanges between customers and chatbots. And the company says it ...Full Article
Silicon Switching Shakes Up Datacenter Market
Recent jockeying within the datacenter networking market underscores the steady shift toward Ethernet-based silicon switching as Intel, Nvidia and others vie to unclog networking bottlenecks and perhaps challenge market ...Full Article
Google Embraces AMD Epyc Rome CPU for Cloud, Internal Workloads
This week’s big tech news – AMD’s release of the Epyc Rome CPU, the industry’s first 7nm server chip – got a major boost when Google confirmed that it ...Full Article
