AMD Expands AI/HPC Product Lineup With Flagship GPU-only Instinct Mi300X with 192GB Memory
Alongside their EPYC server CPU updates, as part of today’s AMD Data Center event, the company is also offering an update on the status of their nearly-finished AMD Instinct MI300 accelerator family. The company’s next-generation HPC-class processors, which use both Zen 4 CPU cores and CDNA 3 GPU cores on a single package, have now become a multi-SKU family of XPUs.
Joining the previously announced 128GB MI300 APU, which is now being
AMD: EPYC "Genoa-X" CPUs With 1.1GB of L3 Cache Now Available
Alongside today’s EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” announcement , AMD’s other big CPU announcement of the morning is that their large cache capacity “Genoa-X” EPYC processors are shipping now. First revealed by AMD back in June of last year, Genoa-X is AMD’s now obligatory V-cache equipped EPYC server CPU, augmenting the L3 cache capacity of AMD’s core complex dies by stacking a 64MB L3 V-cache die on top of each CCD.
PCI Express 7.0 Spec Hits Draft 0.3, 512GBps Connectivity on Track For 2025 Release
In what’s quickly becoming a very busy week for data center and high-performance computing news, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is hosting its annual developers conference over in Santa Clara. The annual gathering for the developers and ecosystem members of the industry’s preeminent expansion bus offers plenty of technical sessions for hardware devs, but for outsiders the most important piece of news to come from the show tends to be the SIG’s annual update on the state of the ecosystem. And this year
AMD Intros EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” CPUs: 128 Zen 4c CPU Cores For Servers, Shipping Now
Kicking off a busy day of product announcements and updates for AMD’s data center business group, this morning AMD is finally announcing their long-awaited high density “Bergamo” server CPUs. Based on AMD’s density-optimized Zen 4c architecture, the new EPYC 97x4 chips offer up to 128 CPU cores, 32 more cores than AMD’s current-generation flagship EPYC 9004 “Genoa” chips. According to AMD, the new EPYC processors are shipping now
AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
AMD this morning is hosting their first data center and server-focused event in quite some time. Dubbed the "AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere," we're expecting a sizable number of announcements from AMD around their server and AI product portfolio.
Highlighting this should be fresh news on AMD's forthcoming MI300 accelerator, the company's first server APU, that combines Zen 4 CPU cores and CDNA 3 GPU cores on to a single chip. Aimed at the very high end of the
Top 10 Foundries See Revenue Drop Nearly 15% Year-over-Year
The top 10 contract makers of chips saw their Q1 2023 revenue decline by 14.6% year-over-year and 18.6% quarter-over-quarter, according to the most recent report by TrendForce . The market intelligence firm attributes falling sales of foundries to ongoing sluggish demand in the end-market demand and seasonality. TSMC and Samsung Foundry retained top positions, whereas GlobalFoundries is back to No. 3, surpassing UMC for the first time in a while.
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AMD Ryzen Pro 7000 and 7040 Series Processors : Zen 4 For Commercial Deployments
As is a constant whenever AMD launches their latest desktop and mobile processors, they typically deploy and release a professional and commercial line-up of these processors a few months later. For the desktop and mobile (server/workstation is Threadripper Pro), the latest Ryzen Pro 7000 for desktop and Ryzen Pro 7040 HS and 7040 U series for mobile builds upon the consumer range by adding several 'Pro' based features that add layers of additional security and remote manageability that sets them
Microsoft to Bring Game Pass Games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now
Microsoft on Sunday announced plans to bring select PC Game Pass games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud streaming service later in 2023. The move will allow gamers to enjoy Microsoft's curated collection of PC games on high-end hardware in the cloud without purchasing either the games or a high-end gaming device (PC, Xbox), all for a monthly fee.
"Game Pass members will soon be able to stream select PC games from the library through NVIDIA GeForce Now," wrote Joe Skrebels
Western Digital Estimates HAMR HDDs to Emerge in 1.5 Years
Western Digital is somewhat behind its rival Seagate in adopting heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which promises radical improvements to areal density and HDD capacities. Still, the company expects hard drives that use this recording method to enter mass production in the next 1.5 years. This technology will open doors for nearline drives offering 40 TB – 50 TB capacities in the coming years.
Seagate recently said it was months away from introducing its 32 TB nearline hard drives featuring its HAMR technology, with 36
TSMC Opens Advanced Backend Packaging Fab for AI and HPC Products
TSMC on Friday formally opened its Advanced Backend Fab 6 facility, which it will be using to expand the company's capacity for building high-end, multi-chiplet products. The facility is said to be the first all-in-one automated fab offering 3DFabric integration of front-end to back-end process and testing services.
TSMC's Advanced Backend Fab 6 can process about one million 300-mm wafers per year as well as more than 10 million hours of testing per year