At AMD’s recent “Advancing AI” event in San Jose, we had the opportunity to speak with Mahesh Balasubramanian, AMD’s Director of Data Center GPU Marketing. We previously interviewed him in 2023 when AMD was rolling out the AMD Instinct MI300X AI Accelerator, so it was good to reconnect and learn more about AMD’s advancements upcoming […]
A Conversation with AMD’s Director of Data Center GPU Marketing, Mahesh Balasubramanian
July 2, 2025 by
AMD Announces New GPUs, Development Platform, Rack Scale Architecture
June 13, 2025 by
AMD issued a raft of news at their Advancing AI 2025 event this week, an update on the company’s response to NVIDIA’s 90-plus percent market share dominance in the GPU and AI markets. And the company offered a sneak peak ….
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 Aimed at AI
September 24, 2024 by
Amid swirling reports of a multi-billion capital infusion offer from an investment firm along with a reported acquisition attempt, Intel proceeded today with launches of the Xeon 6 CPU and the Gaudi 3 AI GPU, both chips aimed at exploding demand for AI compute — and at competitors Nvidia and AMD. Intel said the Xeon 6 (“Granite Rapids”) with Performance-cores (P-cores) delivers twice the performance of its predecessor and features increased core count, double the memory bandwidth ….
Supermicro Adds Intel-Based X14 Servers for AI, HPC, Cloud and Edge
September 24, 2024 by
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2024 — Supermicro today announced GPU, multi-node and rackmount systems to the X14 portfolio, which are based on the Intel Xeon 6900 Series Processors with P-Cores (formerly code named Granite Rapids-AP). The new servers are designed to address the needs of modern data centers, enterprises, and service providers. Joining the efficiency-optimized […]
HPE ‘Kestrel’ Supercomputer Operational at NREL
August 21, 2024 by
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced it has completed the buildout of its Kestrel supercomputer, slated to reach 44 petaflops of computing power focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency research. Built by Hewlett ….
Trillions for Chips: A Roiled Semiconductor Industry Strains to Meet AI Demand
February 9, 2024 by
We’re seeing the chip industry’s version of the scientific aphorism: “nature hates a vacuum.” The vacuum is the short supply of – and vast demand for – AI chips, and it’s roiling the semiconductor industry. Chip foundry companies TSMC, Intel and Samsung are straining to expand GPU fab capacity….
HPC News Bytes 20230918: New AMD CPUs and Intel FPGAs, Arm’s IPO and Strategic Pivot, AI for Science
September 18, 2023 by
A happy mid-September morning to you. Here’s a hop (4:54) through recent HPC news, including: AMD launches EPYC 8004 CPUs for energy- and space-constrained workloads; Intel announces FPGAs going into its Innovation 2023 event; Arm’s successful IPO and strategic pivot; a report on AI for science….
Astera Labs Launches Cloud-Scale Interop Lab for CXL Solutions at Scale
January 31, 2023 by
SANTA CLARA, CA – January 31, 2022 – Astera Labs, maker of connectivity solutions, today announced the expansion of its Cloud-Scale Interop Lab designed to provide robust interoperability testing between its Leo Memory Connectivity Platform and an ecosystem of CXL-based CPUs, memory modules, and operating systems. “Compute Express Link (CXL) is proving to be a […]
Intel Architecture Day: Details Revealed on Sapphire Rapids and ‘Powered on’ Ponte Vecchio
August 19, 2021 by
Harried data center and HPC server market dominator Intel today unveiled what the company said is its biggest shifts in Intel architectures in a generation. The Architecture Day event included looks at the two chips that will power the delayed Aurora exascale supercomputer, to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory; those chips are: Sapphire Rapids, […]
Arm Releases Details on 2 Neoverse Platforms and Mesh Interconnect for HPC, ML
April 27, 2021 by
Arm Holdings this morning released information on two new compute platforms and an interconnect for HPC, machine learning and other workloads introduced last September: The Arm Neoverse V1 platform is a new computing tier for Arm and the first Arm-designed core to support Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), delivering 50 percent more performance for HPC and […]
