Gen-Z edge connector
The New Fabrics and Mix-and-Match Systems: The Next Big Thing in Data Center Servers?
If you’ve wondered about the new fabric efforts undertaken by the Gen-Z, OpenCAPI and CCIX consortia – if you’ve wondered what it all means – here's a way to ...Full Article
Azure Expands CycleCloud Access, Now Supports Nvidia Containers
Microsoft Azure continued to beef up support for HPC and advanced scale workloads today announcing general availability of CycleCloud – its HPC cloud orchestration product based on technology from ...Full Article
GlobalFoundries Drops 7nm Development Program
Under the new leadership of CEO Tom Caulfield, custom semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries has announced the seemingly sudden decision to drop its 7nm FinFET development program and restructure its R&D ...Full Article
The Adaptive FPGA Platform that Might Carry AI – and Everything Else – Forward
Change is a constant, the pace of change accelerates, adapt to change or wither.... Right, sorry, these are givens. But still, these days, it bears repeating because creative destruction ...Full Article
IBM Talks Power’s Future at Hot Chips
With processor, memory and networking technologies all racing to fill in for an ailing Moore’s law, the era of the heterogeneous datacenter is well underway, and IBM is positioning ...Full Article
Startup Focuses on Updating IoT Devices
As consumer angst grows over Internet of Things security and performance, IoT startups are surfacing with schemes for safeguarding IoT devices from evolving attacks while fixing a rash of ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s New Servers for Transition to the ‘Disaggregated,’ Software-Defined Data Center
Dell EMC today launched a new high-performance server line, the PowerEdge MX, that the company said sits squarely in the middle of traditional and next-generation AI-oriented workloads, supporting both ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Turing Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang this week unveiled Turing, the company’s next-gen GPU platform that introduces new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing. ...Full Article
Spectre, Meltdown Redux: Intel Chips Found Vulnerable to More Malware
A published report states that Intel chips are vulnerable to three new malware attacks with the ability to steal passwords, personal information, financial data and encryption keys. Intel has ...Full Article
Intel Reveals Next Gen Xeon Processors, Optane Persistent Memory
For all its power, success, profits and influence, life at Intel is a permanent struggle. Chide if you will Andy Grove’s faith in paranoia as an organizing corporate principle, ...Full Article
