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NVIDIA is Acquiring Israeli Chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9B
Securing Datacenter Leadership Israeli chipmaker Mellanox was the center of a bidding war over the past few weeks. The company is of course, a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions. So it is not surprising that the notable suitors for the bidding war rumoured to include…
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AMD Unveils Zen 2 EPYC 7nm CPU with 25% Performance Gain
AMD Introduces “Rome” Following up Intel’s announcement of new Xeon server processors recently, AMD is firing a return salvo of their own to lay claim to more real estate in the enterprise CPU market. This time, their announcement does not include a rehash or glued-together previously released parts like Intel’s.…
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AMD Introduces the Radeon Pro V340 Graphics Card
New Graphics Card for Datacentres AMD is announcing a new Radeon video card called the Radeon Pro V340. This one is not for gaming however, but is a high-performance dual-GPU Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution. It is purpose built to power demanding datacentre visualization workloads such as CAD, rendering, and…
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AMD Revealed “EPYC” 32 Core 64 Thread CPUs for Datacenters
Datacenter CPUs? Yawn! I know they’re not the typical hardware any consumer gets too excited about. However, keep in mind that most new high-end hardware starts off in the industrial and professional markets before filtering down to and kind of consumer market. With that in mind, the next-gen AMD CPUs…
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Microsoft Built a Datacenter at the Bottom of The Pacific Ocean
Building a datacenter can be a costly and time-consuming endeavor, but the latest project from Microsoft may have solved quite a few problems all at once. Typically it can take two years to build a datacenter on land, and even then you’ll find that they need to be built quite…
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AMD Finally Launches Datacenter Opteron ARM Chips
Nearly 4 years after AMD first revealed their ARM plans, their first ARM-based Opteron chips are finally ready. Shipping today, the octa-core Opteron A1100 server SoC and platform is already able for purchase from several partners and is available in 3 SKUs. Despite such a late launch, the A1100 may yet…
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BP Begins Using New 2.2 Petaflops Cluster For Oil Exploration
BP have just opened up their brand new datacenter in Houston, which now houses the world’s largest supercomputer for commercial research and it is capable of punching out data at more than 2.2 petaflops. The currently unnamed system is part of a five year investment program at BP that will…
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