interconnect

Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox

The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconnect company, according to ...Full Article

Tech Giants Ally to Bring Coherence to Data Center Workloads

Overcoming one of the most vexing technical problems hampering performance in the data center - “cache incoherence,” the inability of different devices (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs) to work together without ...Full Article

Early NVLink Tests Show GPU Speed Burst

Crunching data is not as big of a problem as moving it around so it can be crunched. The PCI-Express bus that links CPU processors to peripheral accelerators has ...Full Article

Prodigal Cray CTO Looks Ahead To Converged Analytics

At the end of the summer, Steve Scott, the chief technology officer who brought many of Cray's interconnects and systems to life in the past several decades, came back ...Full Article

ARM Brings More Cores To The Datacenter War

Back in May, ARM Holdings, the chip design and licensing company behind the ARM processor collective that underpins smartphones, tablets, and other consumer devices, and that is assaulting the ...Full Article

ARM Server Chips To Scale To 32 Cores And Beyond

The first wave of 64-bit ARM server processors are just coming out of the fabs from AMD and Applied Micro, and ARM Holdings, the company that licenses the ARM ...Full Article

AMD Sets “Seattle” ARM Server Chip Launch For Q4

Datacenters that are eager to test out 64-bit ARM server chips with their workloads are going to have to wait a bit longer than they might otherwise like to. ...Full Article

On-Chip Networking May Survive Calxeda Shutdown

Just after EnterpriseTech went on hiatus for the holiday, ARM server chip pioneer Calxeda closed its doors. This was something of a shock to those who have been championing ...Full Article