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Supermicro Seeks Forecasts From Partners To Navigate Chip Shortage
by Dylan Martin
A Supermicro executive tells CRN that the server vendor needs extended forecasts from channel partners to navigate the global chip shortage. ‘We do need to give some kind of guidance to Intel, AMD and Nvidia, whenever and however we can, for us to ensure that we get the proper allocation and delivery from them,’ he says.
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Intel’s $3.5B New Mexico Campus Upgrade To Boost Next-Gen Chips
by Dylan Martin
The $3.5 billion upgrade will give Intel’s New Mexico manufacturing site the ability to produce next-generation processors with Intel’s Foveros 3D packaging technology, a key part of the company’s new IDM 2.0 strategy it says will lead to processors with greater performance in a smaller footprint.
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Intel, Samsung Team Up For New PCs, Chip Microarchitecture
by Dylan Martin
The two companies are embarking on a new co-engineering and co-marketing partnership for PCs they say will push the envelope on mobility, connectivity and performance — and some of the PCs will feature a new chip microarchitecture utilizing different kinds of Intel silicon.
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AMD Nearly Doubles Q1 Revenue With Strong Ryzen, EPYC Sales
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker is keeping the pressure on Intel as the sales momentum continues for its Ryzen and EPYC processors. But its larger x86 semiconductor foe plans to strike back with new server chips while a growing number of companies turn to Arm-based processors for a variety of workloads.
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Intel Pushes Partners To Sell Evo Laptops As PC Demand Continues
by Dylan Martin
Top Intel PC sales exec Steve Long says the chipmaker is arming partners with tools to sell Intel Evo-branded laptops, which is part of a larger push in the PC market. ‘It is an invest year in the client business. We’ve invested not only in our partners and our products and our programs but also in our go-to-market motions,’ he tells CRN.
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Pat Gelsinger: Intel Needs To Be Consistent, Reliable For Partners
by Dylan Martin
‘I am here today to personally commit that every single day Intel will work tirelessly to be an incredible partner to you,’ Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told partners in his keynote at this week’s virtual Intel Partner Connect. Meanwhile, company executives said Intel is improving on supply issues, ironing out issues with Intel Partner Alliance and working to improve partner access to resources throughout the company.
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WFH Printing: How Solution Providers Are Seizing This ‘New Revenue Stream’
by Kyle Alspach
Demand for work-from-home printers, support and services has created new opportunities in the channel even with the slowdown in office printing.
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U.K. To Investigate Nvidia-Arm Deal Over National Security Concerns
by Dylan Martin
The U.K. competition watchdog’s phase one report is due at the end of July, and it is expected to shed light on whether there are any competition, national security or jurisdiction issues. From there, the U.K. digital secretary can decide to clear the acquisition, clear it with certain conditions or call for a phase two investigation.
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Nvidia Reveals Arm-Based Data Center CPU To Take On Intel, AMD
by Dylan Martin
The GPU juggernaut is taking its computing ambitions a step further with the reveal of an Arm-based data center CPU it says will provide 10 times faster AI performance than AMD’s 64-core EPYC Rome processors.
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Intel Sets Ice Lake Apart From AMD EPYC With AI, Systems Approach
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker launches its long-anticipated third-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs, which feature up to 40 cores and come with new acceleration capabilities for AI and cryptography as well as new security features. Intel says the new acceleration improvements make Ice Lake faster than AMD’s new third-generation EPYC chips across certain workloads for AI, cloud and high-performance computing.
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Intel Flexes Data Center Solutions Muscle As AMD Heats Up
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant says its Intel Select Solutions program is a major competitive differentiator in the data center market that saves partners a significant amount of time in configuring and optimizing servers for workloads ranging from hybrid cloud to AI. ‘We spend months so you don’t have to,’ an Intel rep tells CRN.
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Top Intel Security Exec Josh Walden To Retire
by Dylan Martin
‘Our commitment to securing Intel’s products and our leadership in security and privacy broadly is unchanged,’ Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says in a company email announcing Walden’s retirement and a realignment of the two organizations Walden led.
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Gelsinger: Intel Will Expand Manufacturing, Make Chips For Others
by Dylan Martin
While Intel is significantly expanding its manufacturing capacity, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company will increase its use of external foundries for a range of Intel products. The company is also launching a new business to help other companies manufacture chips in the U.S. and Europe.
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Google Cloud Hires Intel Vet Uri Frank To Design Server Chips
by Dylan Martin
With the hiring of a seasoned engineer from Intel to work on new server chips, Google Cloud is following the footsteps of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, both of which are at different stages of developing and deploying processors in-house for new cloud instances.
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