Year: 2025
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Slash Server Costs Without Hardware or Software Changes
Have you noticed how expensive servers are? It’s easy to point a finger at processor prices. More than one-third of Intel’s Granite Rapids (Xeon 6) models list for over $5,000, and the company prices many of those above $10,000. Memory, however, is a bigger culprit; DRAM can cost twice as much as a processor. Worse,…
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AMD Bares Instinct MI350 GPU, Teases MI400 and MI500
Today AMD officially launched the Instinct MI350, an AI accelerator aiming to compete with Nvidia’s Blackwell, and revealed its roadmap to rack-scale systems. The company also teased the next two Epyc generations and a new Pensando DPU.
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Untethered
Untether AI has folded shop, ceasing supply and support for its hardware and software, and AMD is picking up the team, according to the AI accelerator startup. Untether shipped two product generations and delivered superior power efficiency. However, its NPUs had limitations and faced a relentless incumbent, all in the context of a rapidly evolving…
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Qualcomm Nabs Alphawave to Bolster Data-Center Strategy
Valuing Alphawave at $2.4 billion, Qualcomm’s takeover signals a deeper push into custom data-center processors, leveraging Alphawave’s high-speed serdes technology and established ASIC business. This move aims to complement Qualcomm’s CPU and AI offerings and capitalize on the growing demand for custom silicon among hyperscalers.
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The DM&P Vortex86EX3 Keeps 90s-Era x86 Computing Alive
Rising from the x86 ghetto of the 1990s, the DM&P Vortex86EX3 is a two-core 1.2 GHz integrated x86 processor for industrial designs.
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AMD Emerges to Challenge Nvidia on MLPerf Training
The MLPerf 5.0 training benchmarks reveal first scores for AMD’s GPUs and introduce a Llama 3.1-405B test. Nvidia and CoreWeave show Hopper and Blackwell scaling.