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AMDs jumps to ten percent server market share

AMDs jumps to ten percent server market share

AMD can look forward to a market share of ten percent in the market of the server carcass. This suggests a report by Digitimes, which, among other things, considers the impact of 7 nm Epyc to be important. Intel sees AMD continue to nibble at its server monopoly. Digitimes knows that. By 2020, the m... Read more

date5 years ago
AMD and Nvidia struggle with declining demand for GPUs

AMD and Nvidia struggle with declining demand for GPUs

AMD and Nvidia are still struggling with declining demand for their GPUs. At the beginning of 2018, the companies produced an extra large number of GPUs in order to be able to respond to the increased popularity of cryptic currency. The collapse of this market is now creating a surplus, making it mo... Read more

date5 years ago
Microsoft launches Azure instances powered by AMD chips

Microsoft launches Azure instances powered by AMD chips

Microsoft has announced that a new computing instance is available for Azure. This new instance has been made suitable for databases, Hadoop clusters and other analytical workloads. One of the functions that distinguishes the Lsv2 series from other options within the Microsoft cloud is the chip that... Read more

date5 years ago
AMD challenges Intel with 7nm Epyc demonstration

AMD challenges Intel with 7nm Epyc demonstration

AMD plans to launch new versions of its Epyc and Ryzen processors in the middle of this year. At CES, the company shows how the 7 nm chips present Intel with a major challenge. AMD is fully on track with the development of its second generation Epyc server processors. That's what CEO Lisa Su says at... Read more

date5 years ago
Finland plant AMD Epyc Rome 200.000-core supercomputer

Finland plant AMD Epyc Rome 200.000-core supercomputer

The Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC) has announced that they will build a supercomputer around 3,125 AMD 64-core Epyc Rome processors. This gives a total of 200,000 cores with a peak performance of 6.4 petaflops. The supercomputer is part of a two-stage plan. The first phase of the plan is a Bull... Read more

date5 years ago
TSMC inaugurates IBM and challenges Intel within data center segment

TSMC inaugurates IBM and challenges Intel within data center segment

Chip manufacturer TSMC is about to receive a major order from IBM. These are specifically premium server chips for their latest mainframes. Together with AMD, TSMC wants to give smart Intel the edge with its 7 nm chips. Intel today supplies 96 percent of the chips in data center servers according to... Read more

date5 years ago
Investigators find seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Investigators find seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

A team of nine investigators claims to have detected seven new CPU attacks. The attacks affect AMD, ARM and Intel CPUs at various levels. Two of the attacks appear to be variations of Meltdown, the other five are variations of Spectre. That's what ZDNet reports. Meltdown and Spectre were unveiled a... Read more

date5 years ago
AMD shows Epyc Rome with radical design and strong performance gains

AMD shows Epyc Rome with radical design and strong performance gains

AMD is enjoying Intel's loss of momentum to get back on track. With the Epyc server chips, it breaks the Xeon hegemony of Intel and Epyc Rome promises a big step forward to reassure doubters. AMD has revealed new details about Epyc Rome (Zen 2 architecture), the new server chips that are baked for ... Read more

date5 years ago
Intel processors face new side-channel vulnerability

Intel processors face new side-channel vulnerability

Intel processors are facing a new vulnerability. This enables attackers to leak encrypted data from the CPU's internal processes. The vulnerability was named PortSmash and was discovered by a team of five academics from Finland and Cuba. The researchers state that every CPU is designed with a Simult... Read more

date5 years ago
Oracle introduces AMD EPYC based instances in public cloud

Oracle introduces AMD EPYC based instances in public cloud

Oracle now offers cloud instances with AMD EPYC processors via its Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The company announced this during Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. According to Oracle, Epyc-based bodies are suitable for general workloads, in addition to Oracle applications such as E-Business Suite,... Read more

date6 years ago
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