VMware wants to speed up confidential computing adoption
Confidential computing needs more support, VMware believes. With the open-source Certifier Framework for Confidential Computing, it hopes to overcome the obstacles the technology is facing. Samsung, AMD and the RISC-V Keystone community are already there as partners.
One of the most vulnerable e... Read more
Nvidia CEO says chipmaker ‘extremely likely’ to invest in Europe
Nvidia's chief executive was bullish on Europe after his meetings with the European Commission. As a result the company is "extremely likely" to invest in Europe.
Nvidia is “extremely likely” to invest in Europe, Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang told reporters over the weekend. Saying th... Read more
AMD unveils latest chips at Data Center and AI Technology Premiere
AMD introduced two new additions to the acclaimed 4th Gen EPYC CPU portfolio, presenting the industry with processors tailored to meet the demands of today's data centers.
Harnessing "Zen 4c" core architecture, the AMD EPYC 97X4 CPUs were designed specifically for cloud-native environments, elev... Read more
AMD unveils next-generation Instinct chips for generative AI
But analysts worry that no early adopter customers for the new chip have been announced.
At its “Data Center and AI Technology Premiere” this week, AMD announced their new Instinct MI300X accelerator. In addition, the company announced its supporting ROCm software ecosystem for data center a... Read more
‘AWS considering new AI chips from AMD’
AWS may want to use AI chips from AMD processors. "We are still working together on exactly where that will land between AWS and AMD," Amazon's Dave Brown indicated.
Reuters reports that VP of elastic compute cloud at Amazon Dave Brown, stated at a recent AMD event that AWS and AMD are working t... Read more
Microsoft and AMD vs. Nvidia: new battle over AI hardware?
AMD is getting help with the development of its AI accelerators. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is offering support to the chip company to avoid having to rely on Nvidia's GPUs for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform in the future.
Bloomberg also reports that AMD would contribute to the develo... Read more
AMD gets a big customer for SmartNICs with Azure
AMD has announced that its SmartNICs (Smart Network Interface Cards) will be deployed with Microsoft Azure. These so-called Pensando Data Processing Units are thus behind the recently announced Microsoft Accelerated Connections service, which accelerates networking via Azure.
In a blog, AMD talk... Read more
AMD introduces Alveo MA35D accelerator for video processing
AMD recently introduced the data center-capable Alveo MA35D accelerator. This accelerator card is made to handle video processing for multiple video streams.
The new AMD Alveo MA35D is the successor to the AMD Alveo U30 accelerator. The new accelerator card allows video streaming service provide... Read more
AMD seems to be changing tack; hybrid architecture chips incoming?
Intel has had chips with a combination of powerful cores and efficient cores for quite some time, but AMD did not seem to want to get into it. The new Phoenix APUs may well change this.
We have long known the so-called hybrid processor architecture thanks to ARM from the smartphone world. First ... Read more
HP introduces Z by HP workstations based on latest Intel Xeon processors
HP has presented new Z by HP Performance Desktops for workstations. Workstations for artists, engineers and data scientists that should give them more computing power and capabilities than before. These workstations are based on the recent Intel Xeon W-3400- or W-2400-series processors and Nvidia/A... Read more