CPUs and Processors

Who’s developing quantum computers?

What Qualcomm’s rumored exit from data centers means

Anonymous sources say Qualcomm is looking to shut down or sell its Centriq line of ARM-based data center processors, causing people to speculate about the company's plans.

GPUs: Designed for gaming now crucial to HPC and AI

How did a chip meant for gaming become so vital in enterprise computing? Some people thought outside the box.

Intel FPGAs step toward mainstream in Dell, Fujitsu enterprise servers

Acceleration cards target financial, data analysis workloads

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

The new chips, code-named Everest, will be made with a 7nm manufacturing process, sport as many as 50 billion transistors and target AI, communications and complex data analysis workloads in the data center

New Spectre derivative bug haunts Intel processors

Researchers have discovered how to use the Spectre design flaw to break into the SGX secure environment of an Intel CPU to steal information. A fix is coming March 16.

IBM to ship its Power9 system this month, claiming AI leadership in the data center

The Power System AC922 servers offer Power9 processors with up to 22 cores, running Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux

AMD rumored to double server core count on Epyc chip

The next generation of AMD’s Epyc server processors is expected to pack 64 cores on one chip.

Intel introduces an AI-oriented processor

The Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) is expected to help companies develop new classes of AI applications. It is expected to be on sale before the end of the year.

Nvidia gets broad support for cutting-edge Volta GPUs in the data center

IBM, Dell EMC, HPE, and Supermicro are among system providers that will tap the Tesla V100, as software makers also voice support