To this point we have now three merchandise out there constructed on TSMC’s N5 course of: the Huawei Kirin 9000 5G SoC, discovered within the Mate 40 Professional, the Apple A14 SoC, discovered within the iPhone 12 household, and the Apple M1 SoC, which is within the new MBA/MBP and Mac Mini. We are able ….  Read More

Final week, Apple made trade information by saying new Mac merchandise based mostly upon the corporate’s new Apple Silicon M1 SoC chip, marking the primary transfer of a deliberate 2-year roadmap to transition over from Intel-based x86 CPUs to the corporate’s personal in-house designed microprocessors operating on the Arm instruction set. Throughout the launch we ….  Read More

This week on the annual Supercomputing HPC present, we’re going to see a variety of high-profile enterprise bulletins throughout a wide selection of industries that assist server and high-performance computing environments. One such announcement is from BittWare, which is asserting its new IA-840F add-in card constructed upon Intel’s newest FPGA product line. The IA-840F add-in ….  Read More

Earlier this 12 months, we wrote a information phase about AMD and Google’s announcement about bringing confidential digital machines to the cloud utilizing options enabled by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. On the time, AMD and Google marketed the announcement as the primary commercially obtainable cloud confidential VMs, powered by AMD’s Safe Encryption Virtualization function. ….  Read More

Following the formal launch of Intel’s first discrete GPU in over a technology, the DG1, this morning Intel is launching the server counterpart to that chip, the very plainly named “Intel Server GPU”. Beforehand known as SG1, the Intel Server GPU relies on the identical Xe-LP structure design because the DG1, however aimed on the ….  Read More

As a part of Intel’s subsequent technology Xe graphics technique, one of many key parts goes to be the choices for the enterprise market. For business enterprises that want hardcore compute sources, the Intel’s Xe-HP merchandise are anticipated to be competitors towards Ampere and CDNA. The HP design, as we’ve already seen in teaser photographs, ….  Read More

Bringing a brand new vary of {hardware} to market is just not a simple process, even for Intel. The corporate has an set up base of its ‘Gen’ graphics in a whole lot of thousands and thousands of gadgets world wide, nevertheless the vary of use is restricted, and it doesn’t deal with each market. ….  Read More

Microchip is coming into the marketplace for PCIe retimer chips with a pair of recent retimers supporting PCIe 5.0’s 32GT/s hyperlink velocity. The brand new XpressConnect RTM-C 8xG5 and 16xG5 chips prolong the attain of PCIe alerts whereas including lower than 10ns of latency. As PCIe speeds have elevated, the sensible vary of PCIe alerts ….  Read More

At Flash Reminiscence Summit this week (on-line for the primary time), Western Digital is displaying off three new SSD merchandise and have outlined the corporate’s areas of strategic focus in a keynote presentation. First up, Western Digital is commercializing NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) expertise with the brand new Ultrastar DC ZN540 datacenter SSD. We coated ….  Read More

Two years in the past we reported on IBM’s FlashCore Module, their customized U.2 NVMe SSD to be used of their FlashSystem enterprise storage home equipment. Earlier this 12 months IBM launched the FlashCore Module 2 and this week they detailed it in a keynote presentation at Flash Reminiscence Summit. Like its predecessor, the FCM ….  Read More