• Power11 Is a Small Step for IBM, Lodestar for Others

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    IBM’s Power11 processor introduces technologies like external memory buffers, AI acceleration, and SMT that will become common in other systems. Power11 refines the Power10 design, achieving a 14–50% speedup in IBM’s applications and offering up to 256 cores in a chassis. continue reading

  • The End Is Not Nigh

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    Leading up to Nvidia’s recent earnings call, concerns mounted that the company would confirm fears that the AI bubble would soon burst. Too many companies are prodigiously spending to build the next data center to create the next foundation model. Profitability is well over the time horizon, and their annular funding arrangements are unsustainable. Nvidia continue reading

  • Arm Neoverse Fuses NVLink

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    Arm is adding Nvidia NVLink Fusion to its Neoverse platform. Neoverse is Arm’s family of infrastructure CPUs. NVLink Fusion is the licensable version of Nvidia’s chip-to-chip interconnect. Companies licensing Neoverse CPUs and peripheral technologies (IP), including soft IP or a CSS hard macro, will now receive Fusion support. This will help them to build chiplets continue reading

  • AMD’s Embedded Strategy Lacks Bite

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    AMD revealed its embedded-processing strategy at its recent analyst day and set growth targets. Less noticed than data-center and client businesses, the embedded unit is called out in the company’s quarterly financial statements. It faces the same growth pressures but unique dynamics. The diverse embedded market is in disarray at the high end, and AMD’s continue reading

  • Speedy Nuclei CPU Supports Apps and Real-Time Processing

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    At the RISC-V Summit North America, Nuclei disclosed its new licensable UX1030H CPU. A midrange configuration of the company’s high-end 1000-series cores, the design complies with RISC-V’s RVA23 profile and supports real-time as well as application processing. Nuclei targets the UX1030H at performance-sensitive systems, such as communications, computing, and storage infrastructure. Based in Shanghai, Nuclei continue reading

  • Byrne-Wheeler Report, Episode 4

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    Bob and Joe discuss the RISC-V Summit, Nvidia BlueField 4, the possibility of an Intel-SambaNova acquisition, and Amazon’s Indiana data center and Trainium 2. continue reading

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