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FTC Sues To Block Nvidia’s $40 Billion Acquisition Of Arm
by Dylan Martin
The Federal Trade Commission alleges that the deal would ‘harm competition’ in three global markets where Nvidia competes using Arm-based products: high-level advanced driver assistance systems for passenger cars, data processing units, and Arm-based CPUs for cloud service providers.
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Intel Hires Top AMD Data Center GPU Exec Ogi Brkic For HPC Role
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant confirms to CRN that it has hired Ogi Brkic as vice president and general manager of the Super Compute product line within the chipmaker’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group. The hire was made ahead of Intel’s plan to challenge AMD and Nvidia with its Ponte Vecchio GPU next year.
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Nvidia CEO: Omniverse Is One Of Our ‘Largest Graphics Opportunities’ Yet
by Dylan Martin
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, believes virtual 3-D worlds will be commonplace in the next phase of the internet and, as a result, drive major demand for the chipmaker’s new Omniverse software and its GPUs. ‘Hopefully one of these days — we’ll try to realize it as fast as we can — every transaction that goes into the internet touches a GPU,’ he said during Nvidia’s earnings call for the third quarter of its 2022 fiscal year.
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AMD Continues To Steal Top 500 Supercomputer Share From Intel
by Dylan Martin
AMD now powers 73 of the top 500 supercomputers, according to the new fall 2021 list released Monday by the eponymous Top500 organization. That’s more than triple the 21 clusters it powered a year ago, underlining the chipmaker’s ascension in the high-performance computing space.
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Xilinx’s New Alveo HPC Accelerator Is Its ‘Most Powerful’ Yet
by Dylan Martin
The FPGA maker is positioning its new Alveo U55C accelerator card as a more efficient and flexible alternative to CPUs and GPUs for a ‘broad spectrum of customers’ running high-performance computing and big data workloads, packing 16GB of HBM2 memory in a single-slot form factor.
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Intel Calls Qualcomm A Top Strategic Account In Sales Reorg Memo
by Dylan Martin
In a memo seen by CRN outlining a reorganization of Intel’s Sales, Marketing and Communications Group, Chief Revenue Officer Michelle Johnston Holthaus identified Qualcomm as a top strategic account alongside the chipmaker’s biggest OEM and hyperscale customers. The reorganization, set to take effect next year, mostly revolves around the naming of new regional leaders and a few teams being moved under Johnston Holthaus’ group.
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AMD: 96-Core EPYC ‘Genoa’ Due In 2022, 128-Core EPYC In 2023
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker provides a big update to its EPYC processor road map, with a 96-core EPYC CPU powered by Zen 4 architecture due out next year and a 128-core EPYC CPU powered by the cloud-focused Zen 4c architecture shipping in 2023. AMD executive Forrest Norrod says the company is increasingly focused on making ‘workload-specific products’ to address the growing complexity of data center applications.
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AMD Blitzes Intel, Nvidia With New Faster EPYC, Instinct Chips
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker is going after Intel in technical computing workloads with a refreshed lineup of EPYC CPUs that use 3D chiplet technology to triple the L3 cache, which will speed up performance ‘dramatically.’ AMD is also going after Nvidia in the high-performance computing and AI space with the new Instinct MI200 GPU accelerators it says can provide up to 4.9 times faster HPC performance and up to 20 percent faster AI performance compared to Nvidia’s A100 GPU.
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Intel Takes On Nvidia With Vendor-Neutral Managed AI Service
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant aims to let data scientists quickly develop, train, deploy and manage machine learning models across any infrastructure with its Metacloud managed service, which is being offered through cnvrg.io, an Israeli AI startup acquired by Intel last year that operates independently within the chipmaker.
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Intel Data Center Exec Guido Appenzeller Leaves After Short Stint
by Dylan Martin
Guido Appenzeller’s departure is happening a few months after Intel ousted his former boss, Navin Shenoy, who led the chipmaker’s data center business before it was reorganized. He played a key role in introducing Intel’s vision for the infrastructure processing unit, a new class of data center chip.
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Intel Debuts ‘Groundbreaking’ 12th-Gen Core Hybrid CPUs For Desktop
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant calls its new flagship Intel Core i9-12900K the ‘world’s best gaming processor,’ saying it can outperform rival AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 5950X across a variety of games. However, while the chipmaker is claiming a ‘groundbreaking’ hybrid architecture for multi-threaded applications, it didn’t say how the new CPUs compared to AMD’s processors in this critical area.
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AMD: ‘Strong’ Enterprise Growth Led By Data Center, Laptop Sales
by Dylan Martin
AMD CEO Lisa Su says the data center business grew to account for roughly 25 percent of total revenue in the third quarter. That growth was largely boosted by AMD’s third-generation EPYC CPUs, which exceeded sales of the company’s previous generation of server processors for the first time.
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HP Pledges $80 Million For ‘Holistic’ Forest Conservation And Restoration
by Kyle Alspach
The pledge of funding to the World Wildlife Fund accounts for the footprint from paper used in HP printers from non-HP brands, HP said. Previous commitments have ensured that all HP-branded paper is from a sustainable source or recycled.
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