There has always been a tension in the datacenter between ever-advancing technology and the practical economic gravity of the company balance sheet. All things being equal, some IT decision makers would be happy for servers to be used until they fail in the field, extending their useful life well beyond …
The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. But one of the ideas that a lot of people are getting behind in a big way is that …
Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. In many ways, Europe behaves more like a nation than not, and this is …
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. Regulators around the world worried about the effect the deal would have on the IT industry and Broadcom had to make some promises – such as to the European Union, which demanded concessions from the semiconductor giant …
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. Norrod ran the custom server business at Dell for many years after working on X86 processors at Cyrix and being …
A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. But the question is will any of that water be potable – by which we mean profitable. Thus far, depending on how cynical you …
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. This week, it is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is trying to play both sides of the GPU market, …
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