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Qualcomm Targets Intel Data Center Dominance with 10nm ARM-based Server Processor
Claiming no less than a reshaping of the future of Intel-dominated datacenter computing, Qualcomm Technologies, the market leader in smartphone chips, announced the forthcoming availability of what it says ...Full Article
ARM Will be Part of OpenHPC 1.2 Release at SC16
Perhaps stealing a bit of OpenHPC’s SC16 thunder, ARM announced today that ARMv8-A will be the first alternative architecture with OpenHPC support and part of OpenHPC version 1.2 released ...Full Article
Intel’s FPGAs Target Datacenters, Networking
Targeting cloud computing, datacenters, network infrastructure and Internet of Things sensors, chipmaker Intel Corp. said it is sampling the latest version of it field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Intel ...Full Article
Eyeing IoT Expansion, SoftBank Buys ARM
Chip intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. is being acquired by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group in a bid to provide more of the semiconductor technology underlying future networks of ...Full Article
Mellanox Spins EZchip/Tilera Aquisition Into BlueField Networking Silicon
Mellanox today introduced the BlueField family of programmable processors, the first product technology based on its $811 million acquisition of fellow Iraeli high-tech company EZchip. The fact that the ...Full Article
ARM Scales Chips for Datacenters, HPC
ARM Ltd., the U.K. chip design and licensing vendor, is targeting datacenters and processors intended for high-performance computing in a chip process technology deal with the world's largest chip ...Full Article
Amazon Enters Chip Business with ARM Platform
Amazon.com crashed the semiconductor sector this week, announcing that its Annapurna Labs Inc. subsidiary would offer an ARM-based platform-on-a-chip targeting network-attached storage and networking applications. The new chips dubbed ...Full Article
Qualcomm Takes On Intel Xeon’s Datacenter Reign
Acquisitions could boost mobile chip maker's success in winnowing away some of Intel's 95 percent server marketshare, analysts say.Full Article
IBM, ARM Collaborate on IoT Platform
IBM and processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. have joined forces on an Internet of Things platform that will integrate ARM devices with analytics services. The partners said this ...Full Article
HP Launches HPC & Big Data Global Business Unit
When HP finally divides into two pieces – HP Inc. (PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and services) – how will the HPC portfolio fare? Views vary ...Full Article
