Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck fairly close to Taipei, which plays a vital role in the global chip supply chain.
More happened at the Nvidia GTC conference than the Blackwell announcement, including the launch of two new high-speed network platforms.
Stream Data Centers bought 55 homes in a 34-acre subdivision and plans to break ground on a 2 million square-foot data center campus in late 2024.
The DGX SuperPOD features eight or more DGX GB200 systems and can scale to tens of thousands of Nvidia Superchips.
The next-gen Blackwell architecture will offer a 4x performance boost over the current Hopper lineup, Nvidia claims.
New servers and storage services are targeted at high performance workloads, which means AI.
Once optional, GPUs are becoming mandatory in servers. Companies are prioritizing investment in highly configured server clusters for AI, research firm Omdia reports.
Supermicro and Lenovo are expanding their AI hardware offerings, Intel is previewing chips designed for 5G and AI workloads, and Dell is embracing telecom.
Almost a decade after it bought the FPGA maker, Intel spins it off as a standalone company with the old brand name.
Researchers disclosed multiple potential vulnerabilities that may impact some AMD processors, including Zen-based product lines across multiple generations.
Cloud service provider Lambda is working to build a GPU cloud for AI workloads.
Slow distribution of federal funds contributes to a delay in the construction of Intel's Ohio manufacturing facility.
‘Volt Typhoon,’ the China state-sponsored hacking group, targeted outdated switches with poor security as part of a wave of attacks against critical infrastructure.
New fabric aims to simplify the management of interconnection services so enterprise customers can more easily monitor and manage utilization and add or change network services as needed.
The National Science Foundation is leading a project to ensure the US continues to lead in AI research.
The deal is aimed at businesses that want to rapidly deploy generative AI applications but don’t have the infrastructure or in-house skills to do it alone.
IT executives are worried about public cloud security and cyberattacks, but in some instances, they’re not doing enough to prevent them.
Policies around remote work could add to the tension as Broadcom begins to integrate VMware.
Startup In Bold Print wants to make it as simple to calculate carbon emissions as it is to file your taxes.
The companies are promising cloud-based AI services at a more affordable cost than the alternatives.
A rush to build AI capacity using expensive coprocessors is jacking up the prices of servers, says research firm Omdia.
The companies are extending their AI partnership, and one key initiative is a supercomputer that will be integrated with AWS services and used by Nvidia’s own R&D teams.
Layoffs and executive departures are expected after an acquisition, but there's also concern about VMware customer retention.
Low vacancies and the cost of AI have driven up colocation fees by 15%, DatacenterHawk reports.
The nature of their design makes CPUs run hotter than ever, and one AMD executive says heat density is unlikely to decrease with future chips.
Next generation Xeon and Gaudi are among the announcements.
An early adopter of immersion cooling, LiquidStack now plans to offer a second form of hardware immersion.
New ThinkSystem enterprise storage arrays are designed for high-performance use.
Semiconductor companies plan to raise prices on processors and peripheral chip products in the coming months, and the price hikes will reportedly stretch into next year.
Based on a new ASIC, DPU, smartNIC, and SDK, Nvidia ups the speed and efficiency of its switching platform.
7 new Dell systems and services cover multi-cloud offerings and more.
Chip giant teams with startup GRC to take immersion cooling mainstream.
The ThinkEdge SE450 incorporates Nvidia GPUs for enterprise and industrial AI at the edge.
Buying Bright Computing gives Nvidia in-house clustering software for high-performance computing and includes support for VMware.
Sunlight claims its software streamlines virtual environments, cutting the need for server hardware by two thirds and promising similar power savings.
AT&T's partnerships with IBM and Microsoft will enable the company to focus on network capabilities, such as 5G, edge computing, and software-defined networks.
With the Cyxtera Extensible Data Center (CXD) platform, customers can quickly extend their data center into a colocation center as needed, letting them provision compute in minutes or hours.
Accelize's new app store, AccelStore, offers custom programmed applications for FPGA accelerators for use on premises and in the cloud.
Marvell Semiconductor's Alaska C 88X7120 transceivers are the first to support the 802.3 standard, which will quadruple network throughput.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said "silicon-based" fixes for Spectre and Meltdown would arrive by the end of 2018.
New features in Imanis Data 3.0 include backup of very large data sets, faster data recovery and support for multiple platforms.
Partners and customers are losing faith in Lenovo’s server business, if they ever had it.
Google triples the number of major cloud deals year over year, gains large enterprise customers from regulated sectors.
Cavium, a company steeped in MIPS-based embedded processors, is bringing its considerable experience and IP to the ARM processor with its ThunderX server ecosystem. ThunderX is the whole shootin’ match, an ARMv8-A 64-bit SoC plus motherboards, ....
Just one month ago, Microsoft acquired Deis, an open source software developer focused on making Kubernetes easier to use. One month later, the acquisition pays off in the form of the first product from the group, called Draft.
Microsoft has turned the Build developers conference into a world tour, with stops in Asia, Australia, Europe and India.
Microsoft’s new Windows Template Studio in Visual Studio lets you build a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app without having to write any code.
Microsoft’s top lawyer said government’s stockpiling of malware is the reason why the WannaCry ransomware attack happened.
Build 16188 of Windows has two major new features of note—both centered around the Microsoft Edge browser.
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