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As part of this week's MWC 2024 conference, Intel is announcing that it is adding support for its vPro security technologies to select 14th Generation Core series processors (Raptor Lake-R) and their latest Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra-H and U series mobile processors. As we've seen from more launches than we care to count of Intel's desktop and mobile platforms, they typically roll out their vPro platforms sometime after they've released their full stack of processors, including overclockable K series SKUs and lower-powered T series SKUs, and this year is no exception. Altogether, Intel is announcing vPro Essential and vPro Enterprise support for several 14th Gen Core series SKUs and Intel Core Ultra mobile SKUs. Intel's vPro security features is something we've covered previously – and...
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Intel’s SG1 is 4x DG1: Xe-LP Graphics for Server Video Acceleration and Streaming
For the last few years, Intel has had a product line known as the Visual Computing Accelerator (VCA). With the VCA2 product being put on EOL earlier this year...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2020
Hot Chips 2020: Marvell Details ThunderX3 CPUs - Up to 60 Cores Per Die, 96 Dual-Die in 2021
Today as part of HotChips 2020 we saw Marvell finally reveal some details on the microarchitecture of their new ThunderX3 server CPUs and core microarchitectures. The company had announced...
27 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/17/2020
NUVIA Phoenix Targets +40-50% ST Performance Over Zen 2 for Only 33% the Power
In November 2019, the company NUVIA broke out of stealth mode. Founded by former senior Apple and Google processor architects, John Bruno, Manu Gulati and Gerard Williams III, the...
50 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/11/2020
GIGABYTE Updates 4-GPU 2U G242 Server with Rome and PCIe4 for Ampere
As we wait for the big server juggernaut to support PCIe 4.0, a number of OEMs are busy creating AMD EPYC versions to fill that demand for high-speed connectivity...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/6/2020
Ampere Altra 1P Server Pictured: GIGABYTE’s 2U with 80 Arm N1 Cores, PCIe 4.0 and CCIX
With the news of Apple moving to Arm SoCs replacing Intel in a few key products, and the success of the new Graviton2 SoC in Amazon’s Web Services, the...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/3/2020
Xeon Platinum 9200 at Scale: Penguin Computing’s new 7616 Cores-Per-Rack Solution
Some aspects of computing rely on density, and need to pack as many compute processing elements in the smallest space possible. Intel’s Xeon Platinum 9200 range was created to...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/3/2020
Marvell Unveils its Comprehensive Custom ASIC Offering
Last week Marvell had updated us with an overview of the company’s new more extensive and comprehensive custom ASIC offerings, detailing the company’s design abilities gained through the company's...
6 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/27/2020
HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
It was recently announced that the Fugaku supercomputer, located at Riken in Japan, has scored the #1 position on the TOP500 supercomputer list, as well as #1 positions in...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2020
Ampere’s Product List: 80 Cores, up to 3.3 GHz at 250 W; 128 Core in Q4
With the advent of higher performance Arm based cloud computing, a lot of focus is being put on what the various competitors can do in this space. We’ve covered...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/23/2020
GIGABYTE’s 4U 10x NVIDIA A100 New G492 Servers Announced
One of the interesting elements about NVIDIA’s A100 card is the potential compute density offered, especially for AI applications. There is set to be a strong rush to enable...
52 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
Intel Launches Cooper Lake: 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable for 4P/8P Servers
We’ve known about Intel’s Cooper Lake platform for a number of quarters. What was initially planned, as far as we understand, as a custom silicon variant of Cascade Lake...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/18/2020
Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine Scores a Sale: $5m Buys Two for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
One of the highlights of Hot Chips 2019 was the presentation of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine - an AI processor chip that was as big as a wafer...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/9/2020
AMD’s New EPYC 7F52 Reviewed: The F is for ᴴᴵᴳᴴ Frequency
Everyone wants a fast processor. The ability to get more stuff done is one of a number of guiding principles of business. However, business also needs consistency, safety and...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/14/2020
Marvell Announces ThunderX3: 96 Cores & 384 Thread 3rd Gen Arm Server Processor
The Arm server ecosystem is well alive and thriving, finally getting into serious motion after several years of false-start attempts. Among the original pioneers in this space was Cavium...
46 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/16/2020
Enterprise NVMe Round-Up 2: SK Hynix, Samsung, DapuStor and DERA
Nine enterprise NVMe SSDs suffer through our updated test suite to show who's who for high-end storage.
33 by Billy Tallis on 2/14/2020
AMD New Hires: Dan McNamara from Intel, Joshua Friedrich and Brad McCredie from IBM
There is always a fairly fluid movement of engineers in the companies we cover, but recently AMD has made a number of substantial hires into several of its biggest departments.
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/21/2020
Intel Cuts 2nd Gen 'Extended Memory' Xeon Scalable Prices
Today Intel will be officially starting product discontinuation of ‘M’ medium sized memory Xeon Scalable CPUs. Due to customer feedback and sales figures, Intel has deemed it in the...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/16/2020
Updates to Intel’s Data Center Group (DCG)
Rumors back in November were abound about Intel having some sort of reorganization internally. A number of my industry peers both on the journalist side and the analyst side...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/14/2020
AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Lots of CPUs
Throughout 2019, we’ve had quite the reverse of performance when it comes to the competitiveness of the modern performance-oriented desktop processor. This year we’ve seen AMD introduce its Zen...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/27/2019
Analyzing Intel’s Discrete Xe-HPC Graphics Disclosure: Ponte Vecchio, Rambo Cache, and Gelato
It has been a couple of weeks since Intel formally provided some high-level detail on its new discrete graphics strategy. The reason for the announcements and disclosures centered around...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/24/2019
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