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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 Announces Radeon MI60 – World’s 1st 7nm GPU
AMD Bets Big on 7nm The new 7nm EPYC “Rome” CPU is not the only announcement AMD has in store at their Next Horizon Event. They have also unveiled the world’s 1st 7nm GPU. This is the AMD Radeon Instinct MI60, a high-performance Vega-architecture based graphics accelerator for the HPC…
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TSMC Announces Wafer-on-Wafer 3D Stacking Technology
Wafer-on-Wafer Packaging Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest chip contract manufacturer in the world is announcing their new 3D stacking technology called Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW). This technology builds upon TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) and Integrated Fan-Out (InFO) 3D manufacturing. You might have not heard of these words before, but…
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NVIDIA Grows to Take 3rd Spot as Largest IC Design Company
NVIDIA is having their strongest years in history with a largely unchallenged domination in the graphics card segment and expansion into other ventures. Now the big green company has overtaken MediaTek as the world’s 3rd largest IC design company. This report comes from the firm Topology Research Institute claiming that…
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Intel Announces 24-core Xeon E7-8894 v4 for $8898
Intel has been busy creating a monster in their labs, now announcing their highest performing multi-core CPU for multi-socket mission-critical servers: the Xeon E7-8894 v4. Featuring a 200MHz speed bump from its predecessor, the new processor is based on the Broadwell-EX and has 24 cores with Hyper-threading, 60MB of L3…
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US Plans to Build Pair of Exascale Supercomputers
A panel of US government scientists at the recent annual SuperComputing Conference have outlined an exascale strategy developed while under President Barack Obama’s administration involving the creation of two supercomputer systems. The project pair is expected to cost around $200 to $300 million each starting in 2019 with a projected…
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Intel 32 Core Xeon E5-2699 V5 Skylake-EP Flagship Leaked
After seeing the first leaks pop up a while ago, more information is slowly being released about Intel’s upcoming high-performance computing lineup. Skylake-EP will replace Broadwell-EP with top of the line chips for the enterprise and HPC markets. This time around, we are being treated to our first glimpse of…
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AMD Boltzmann Initiative Brings C++ & CUDA Compiler/Compatibility
While AMD has long-held decent marketshare in the consumer space, the high performance compute segment has long alluded the graphics firm. With the announcement of the so-called Boltzmann Initiative today though, AMD is planning to turn a leaf on their troubles and plow ahead with a better than ever graphics compute toolkit.…
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AMD Unveils The FirePro S10000 12GB Edition GPU Accelerator
AMD announced the new FirePro S10000 12GB Edition graphics card, designed for big data high-performance computing workloads for single precision and double precision performance. The new accelerator is the first in the industry to come with 12GB of onboard memory. “Our compute application customers asked for a solution that offers…
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NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors seen in Cray XC30 Supercomputers
Cray Inc. today announced the Company has expanded its support for accelerators and coprocessors. Cray is now selling the XC30 series of supercomputers with NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerators and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision has reached its goal today, which is focusing on delivering innovative systems…
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