datacenters
Xilinx Moves FPGAs Deeper into Datacenters
Three Chinese infrastructure vendors are embracing FPGA technology as a way of accelerating datacenter workloads. FPGA specialist Xilinx Inc. announced during a developer forum in Beijing this week that ...Full Article
In Challenge to Intel, AMD Eyes Server Upgrades
AMD is zeroing in on datacenter overhauls as a means of chipping away at rival Intel Corp.’s x86 dominance of the enterprise IT infrastructure market. Some market analysts are ...Full Article
Nvidia Unifies AI, HPC Workloads in Datacenters
Nvidia’s latest cloud server platform is intended as a “building block,” in the reference design sense, to support AI training and inference along with HPC workloads such as simulations. ...Full Article
Report: Qualcomm Dropping ARM Server Chips
ARM Holding’s efforts to break Intel Corp.’s grip on the server chip market and dominance in the datacenter has apparently taken another hit with a report that Qualcomm Inc. ...Full Article
AMD Continues to Nip at Intel’s Heels
Advanced Micro Devices appears to making market share headway at the expense of long-time rival Intel Corp. based on quarterly results released this week. AMD reported quarterly revenue totaling ...Full Article
Chip Market Soared on Memory Demand
Global spending on semiconductors jumped a hefty 17 percent in 2017, driven by demand and corresponding price hikes for memory in datacenters and early industrial deployments of the Internet ...Full Article
Apple’s Datacenter Push Rattles Cloud Market
Apple's announcement this week that it would spend more than $10 billion over the next five years on datacenter construction promises to shake up the public cloud market. Responding ...Full Article
Enterprise Software, AI Driving Global IT Spending
Spending on enterprise software is projected to jump by a healthy 9.5 percent in the coming year as demand is stimulated by software services platforms, according to a new ...Full Article
Turnaround Complete, HPE’s Whitman Departs
Having turned around the aircraft carrier the Silicon Valley icon had become, Meg Whitman is leaving the helm of a restructured Hewlett Packard. Her successor, technologist Antonio Neri will ...Full Article
Pivot3 Expands Security, Virtualization Partnerships
Pivot3, the hyper-converged infrastructure specialist, and a trio of partners are joining forces to add workload encryption and other capabilities to its software-defined platform for datacenters. The startup based ...Full Article