Year: 2023
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Is Intel Meteor Lake a New Centrino Moment?
One can imagine the sighs let out in Santa Clara when Intel’s long-delayed Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) PC processors were officially launched in December 2023. CEO Pat Gelsinger refers to Meteor’s launch as a Centrino moment, harkening back two decades to a time when Intel’s PC-processor strategy was getting back on track and a new…
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AMD Steps Towards Becoming a Major NPU Supplier with MI300X and MI300A
In December 2023 AMD disclosed details of the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. The HPC and AI GPU is a packaging tour-de-force and promises more computing performance than rival’s offerings, including Nvidia’s H100 (Hopper). The Frontier supercomputer will employ the MI300, as will Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle. These latter three will use it for AI, and…
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Marvell Octeon CN103 Keeps Comm Processors Alive
The Marvell Octeon 10 CN103 is a midrange Arm-based communications processor (DPU) featuring eight Arm cores and 100 gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Marvell is among the last companies targeting control-plane processing in Ethernet switches, 5G small cells, SD-WAN systems, and conventional firewalls and routers.