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AMD’s Instinct MI200 GPU Uses Multi-Chip Design for Exascale Supercomputer

Home News (Image credit: AMD) A recent Linux patch posted by AMD reveals that the company’s Instinct MI200 next-generation compute GPU, codenamed ‘Aldebaran,’ will use a multi-chip module (MCM) design. That means the GPU will come with two dies in a single chip package instead of the single die we’re accustomed to with standard GPUs…. Read more

Micron Ships First 1-Alpha DRAM: Extreme Density Without EUV

Home News (Image credit: Micron) Micron said on Tuesday that it had started volume production of DRAM chips using its latest 1α (1-alpha) process technology. Initially the company will use the new node for LPDDR4X and 8Gb DDR4 memory ICs, but the company will eventually use the new fabrication tech to produce all of its… Read more

Bacteria get a fresh gig as art restorers in Italy

Michelangelo’s marbles in the Medici Chapel were looking dingy, so a team of art restorers decided to smear some bacteria on the situation. The specialized microbes cleaned up centuries of grime, leaving the marble statues with a fresh new look, The New York Times reports. The team selected specialized strains of bacteria to target different… Read more

AMD and Nvidia to Power Four ExaFLOPS Supercomputer

Home News (Image credit: NERSC) The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) this week announced its new supercomputer that will combine deep learning and simulation computing capabilities. The Perlmutter system will use AMD’s top-of-the-range 64-core EPYC 7763 processors as well as Nvidia’s A100 compute GPUs to push out up to 180… Read more

Rumor: AMD’s EPYC Milan-X CPU to Have 3D Die Stacking

Home News AMD X3D Chip Packaging (Image credit: AMD) We now know a lot more about AMD’s forthcoming 3D die stacking technology, thanks to new tweets from reliable hardware leakers ExecutableFix and Patrick Schur. These tweets claim that we can first expect to see this tech at play in the EPYC Milan-X series of data… Read more

CPU Market Q1 2021: AMD’s Fastest Growth in Servers Against Intel in 15 Years

Home News Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Image 2 of 2 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Mercury Research CPU market share results are in for the first quarter of 2021, which finds AMD scoring its highest single-quarter market share increase in the server market since 2006, leading to record revenue as it… Read more

HPE to Build Supercomputer with 100K AMD Zen 3 Cores

Home News (Image credit: NSCC) Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week said it had landed an order to build a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore. The new system is powered by AMD’s Epyc ‘Milan’ processors as well as Nvidia’s A100 compute GPUs; it is eight times more powerful than its predecessor. NSCC’s supercomputer uses… Read more

AMD Smashes Records Again, Data Center Revenue up 286%, Consumer Up 46%

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) AMD crushed expectations with its first quarter 2021 financial results today with a record quarterly revenue of $3.45B, an increase of 93% year over year (YoY). AMD grew in every segment of its businesses despite constant product shortages for its consumer CPUs and GPUs at retail, a byproduct of… Read more

Arm Details Neoverse V1 and N2 Platforms, New Mesh Design

Home News (Image credit: Arm) Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the first power-on of an Arm processor. Today, the company announced the deep-dive details of its Neoverse V1 and N2 platforms that will power the future of its data center processor designs and span up to a whopping 192 cores and 350W TDP. Naturally,… Read more

AMD’s EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here’s a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s EPYC Milan processors launched last month with 120 new world records to their credit in various applications, like HPC, Cloud, and enterprise workloads. But variants of these chips will eventually come to the market as Threadripper models for high end desktop PCs, and AMD’s server records don’t tell us… Read more

Nvidia’s Arm-Powered Grace CPU Debuts, Claims 10X More Performance Than x86 Servers

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia introduced its Arm-based Grace CPU architecture that the company will use to power two new AI supercomputers. Nvidia says its new chips deliver 10X more performance than today’s fastest servers in AI and HPC workloads. The new Grace CPU architecture comes powered by unspecified “next-generation” Arm Neoverse CPU cores… Read more

Intel Ice Lake Xeon Platinum 8380 Review: 10nm Debuts for the Data Center

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s long-delayed 10nm+ third-gen Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors mark an important step forward for the company as it attempts to fend off intense competition from AMD’s 7nm EPYC Milan processors that top out at 64 cores, a key advantage over Intel’s existing 14nm Cascade Lake Refresh that tops out… Read more

Next-Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper Might Be Coming Soon

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’d next-generation Ryzen Threadripper might be coming soon, according to the latest patch notes for the popular HWiNFO diagnostic suite. Realix, the developer behind HWiNFO, said earlier today that the upcoming version of the software will improve its work with AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro as well as “next-generation Ryzen Threadripper”… Read more

HPE Briefly Lists 40-Core Ice Lake CPUs: Intel’s Next-Gen HEDT Chips Incoming?

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Hewlett Packard Enterprise briefly listed Intel’s 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Ice Lake-SP’ processors and inevitably revealed their specifications. As spotted by @9550pro, it turns out higher-end extreme core count (XCC) versions of these products will carry up to 40 cores, significantly more than expected a few months ago. For servers, such… Read more

AMD Unveils EPYC ‘Milan’ 7003 CPUs, Zen 3 Comes to 64-Core Server Chips

Home News (Image credit: AMD ) AMD unveiled its EPYC 7003 ‘Milan’ processors today, claiming that the chips, which bring the company’s powerful Zen 3 architecture to the server market for the first time, take the lead as the world’s fastest server processor with its flagship 64-core 128-thread EPYC 7763. Like the rest of the… Read more