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Intel Bets On ‘Transistor-Resilient Design’ To Avoid Past Mistakes
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant wants to avoid past mistakes that have resulted in product delays by taking a new approach to the way it designs chips, which has already resulted with what the company says is the ‘largest single intranode enhancement in its history’ that will significantly increase performance for Intel’s upcoming Tiger Lake processors. ‘The era of getting massive performance boost from simply shrinking transistor features is behind us,’ one architect says.
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Partners: Intel Still Strong Despite 7nm Delays, AMD Gains
by Dylan Martin
While Intel’s recently disclosed 7nm delays prompted a nosedive in the chipmaker’s stock price—and an opposite reaction for rival AMD—solution providers say the impact of its 7nm struggles on its future isn’t as clear cut as the market reaction would have one believe. ‘Challenges ahead? Yeah. Are they going to lose some market share? Probably. But are they going to get severely damaged by this whole fiasco? I don‘t think so,’ one partner says.
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Intel Investigating Large Leak Of Confidential Files
by Dylan Martin
‘The information appears to come from the Intel Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for use by our customers, partners and other external parties who have registered for access. We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data,’ the chipmaker says of a 17 GB leak that was posted to Twitter.
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Intel, VMware Seek To Accelerate 5G With New vRAN Platform
by Dylan Martin
‘Many [communications service providers] are choosing to extend the benefits of network virtualization into [Radio Access Networks] for increased agility as they roll out new 5G services, but the software integration can be rather complex,’ Intel executive Dan Rodriguez says of the main issue the new platform will address.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su: Roadmap Execution Is Key To Fighting Intel
by Dylan Martin
Su says the chipmaker achieved its goal of achieving double-digit market share in servers against Intel as the chipmaker‘s revenue for EPYC processors more than doubled in the second quarter from the same period last year. ‘When we talk to our customers, it‘s about ensuring that they understand we have a consistent roadmap,’ she says.
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Top Intel Exec Murthy Renduchintala To Leave After 7nm Stumble
by Dylan Martin
This marks Intel‘s second high-profile executive departure in as many months following the sudden resignation of chip design executive Jim Keller, who left in June for personal reasons.
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With Arm, Nvidia Sees More Choice, Openness And Efficiency
by Dylan Martin
While Nvidia is declining to comment on a report that it is interested in buying Arm, the GPU juggernaut has been making increasingly larger investments in Arm-based processors in recent years, from using them in SoCs to creating new blueprints for Arm-based servers. ‘They offer a choice to the customers,’ an Nvidia director told CRN last fall.
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Intel Delays 7nm Products, May Lean More On Foundries
by Dylan Martin
The delay means Intel’s first 7nm client CPU won’t arrive until at least 2022 while its 7nm data center CPU won’t come until 2023, and it’s looking at turning to external chip foundries if more manufacturing issues persist. ‘The 7nm push isn’t a positive announcement as many products were dependent on it,’ an analyst says.
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Nvidia Reportedly Interested In Buying Arm From SoftBank
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker’s reported interest comes after it started working more closely with Arm last year to enable GPU-accelerated, Arm-based servers, but not everyone thinks it would be a good idea. ‘I think ARM going to a single vendor would weaken the company‘s value. It needs to go IPO and not be acquired,’ one analyst says.
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Nvidia, Co-Founder Give $50M To University Of Florida For AI Data Center
by Dylan Martin
‘They should be able to make marked advancements in science, but the use of AI, to infuse it into the workforce and to help businesses upskill and become more competitive, it‘s something that [the University of Florida] is quite interested in, and they have the resources and the reach to make that happen,’ Nvidia co-founder Chris Malachowsky says.
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New AMD Ryzen 4000 Desktop APUs Up Intel On Integrated Graphics
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker is taking on Intel with new Ryzen 4000G and Ryzen Pro 4000G APUs that bring new gains in performance in overall compute and integrated graphics for desktop PCs. ‘No matter which way you slice it, we have a very powerful capable APU here,’ AMD’s Robert Hallock says.
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These Are The Top 10 Nvidia Partners Driving AI Adoption
by Dylan Martin
The GPU juggernaut announces the winners of its 2019 Nvidia Partner Network Partner of the Year awards in the Americas. ‘What you‘re seeing is a full architectural approach from these NPN partners, and then they’re able to deliver to those customers full-stack AI solutions that are ready for real-time deployment,’ an Nvidia exec says.
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Chip Startup Graphcore Takes On Nvidia A100 With New IPU
by Dylan Martin
Graphcore claims its new Colossus MK2 is the ‘world’s most complex processor,’ packing more transistors in a smaller die than Nvidia’s A100 while outpacing the GPU by several times in performance and throughput. ‘Graphcore may now be first in line to challenge NVIDIA for data center AI, at least for large-scale training,’ an analyst says.
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