Components & Peripheral Devices

HP Partners: Pandemic Would've Been A 'Terrible Time' For Xerox Takeover

by Kyle Alspach

As HP terminates its shareholder rights plan, CEO Enrique Lores says the Xerox bid ‘makes even less sense now’ amid the COVID-19 crisis.
5 Things To Know About HP's Latest Investments In Diversity And Sustainability

by Kyle Alspach

HP reveals progress in its initiatives around sustainable impact and diversity and inclusion, while also setting new goals for progress going forward.
Ampere's New 128-Core Altra CPU Targets Intel, AMD In The Cloud

by Dylan Martin

'If you can scale out to a ton of cores with 128, Ampere Altra Max is going to give you the highest socket performance and the highest overall performance for those applications,' says Ampere executive Jeff Wittich of the chip designer's new 128-core, Arm-based server processors.
Top 500 Supercomputers: New No. 1 Uses Arm-Based Fujitsu CPUs

by Dylan Martin

British chip designer Arm achieves a major milestone with a new system in Japan becoming the world's fastest supercomputer as Intel and AMD continue to duke it out over the x86 server space. 'If it's an inviting performance-per-dollar formula there, then they eventually get some attention,' an Intel and AMD partner says.
Nvidia A100 Gets Broad Server Support With New PCIe Card

by Dylan Martin

With a new PCIe version of Nvidia's A100, the game-changing GPU for artificial intelligence will ship in more than 50 servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems, Lenovo and other OEMs this year. 'We now have the ability to do mainstream server acceleration as well as scale-up server acceleration,' Nvidia's Paresh Kharya tells CRN.
Intel Launches 3rd-Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs: For 4, 8 Sockets Only

by Dylan Martin

'Certainly in the segments that we compete in, it's really, really niche,' one Intel partner says of four- and eight-socket servers, which are the only server types being supported with the new Xeon Scalable processors. 'We just see far more opportunities with the two socket.'
Former HP Inc. CEO Dion Weisler Joins Intel Board

by Dylan Martin

'Having admired Intel for more than three decades as the company that fueled compute as we know it, I’m honored and excited to join them as they transform to capitalize on new markets fueled by the incredible growth of data and intelligence,' Weisler says of his appointment.
Top Intel Chip Design Exec Jim Keller Abruptly Resigns

by Dylan Martin

'Jim Keller's a rock star and [Intel] is losing a great architect,' Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, tells CRN. 'Historically, Keller has left after a specific milestone like he did at Apple, Tesla and AMD. I don't have insights into his personal reasons for leaving but I hope he's OK.'
Intel Launches Lakefield Hybrid CPUs For Foldable, Dual-Screen PCs

by Dylan Martin

Thanks to Intel's Foveros 3D packaging technology, the Lakefield processors are dramatically smaller than other mobile CPUs, enabling OEMs to create new ultra-light and innovative PC form factors like the foldable Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold and dual-screen Microsoft Surface Neo.
AMD, Penguin Computing Supply HPC Systems For COVID-19 Research

by Dylan Martin

'AMD and our technology partners are proud to provide researchers around the world with these new systems that will increase the computing capability available to fight COVID-19 and support future medical research,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says of the new deals to supply supercomputers to three U.S. universities.
Bob Swan: Intel Pledges $1 Million To Anti-Racism, Social Justice Groups

by Dylan Martin

'Black lives matter. Period. While racism can look very different around the world, one thing that does not look different is that racism of any kind will not be tolerated here at Intel or in our communities,' Intel CEO Bob Swan says in a memo to employees that was published Monday.
Intel Hires Another AMD Veteran To Work On Discrete GPUs

by Dylan Martin

The semiconductor giant continues to hire AMD veterans as it plans to return to the discrete GPU market with its Xe architecture after two prior failed attempts.
6 Key Takeaways From HP's Mixed Q2 Report

by Kyle Alspach

HP executives shared details on 3-D print growth, executive pay cuts and managed print services struggles.
Intel Sees VDI, vSAN Driving Optane Memory, Storage Sales

by Dylan Martin

'We have a number of partner wins already with Optane, which is pretty exciting. And we just look forward to growing more of those as we go forward into 2020 and 2021,' Intel Vice President Laura Crone told CRN of the chipmaker's push to accelerate Optane memory solutions across the data center and client markets.
Nvidia Data Center Sales Soar As Hyperscalers Adopt A100 GPU

by Dylan Martin

Nvidia says the new 7-nanometer A100 data center GPU contributed 'meaningful' revenue in its first quarter, thanks to 'strong adoption' across leading hyperscalers. 'We think that's a true indication of their excitement about our platform and their excitement for A100,' CFO Collette Kress says.