Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
Equinix stopped commercial sales of its Metal service to focus on colocation, interconnection and hyperscale offerings.
New reference design addresses sustainability issues surrounding AI.
Legacy copper services are no longer meeting customer needs for speed, reliability and always on-connectivity, AT&T says.
Already struggling, Intel now faces even more challenges.
MRDIMM promises faster memory with no hardware or software changes.
New PowerEdge servers are aimed at accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
Is one massive chip more powerful than hundreds of smaller chips? Cerabras would argue yes.
What do these five urban regions in the US have in common? Readily available power.
The six-chip configuration is meant for space-constrained locations.
Micron is also launching a high-capacity SSD. Both vendors promise greater storage density and lower power consumption.
The reference designs are meant to ease and accelerate deployment of AI-oriented data centers.
Liquid cooling continues to gain legitimacy. HPE's architecture doesn't rely on fans, while Supermicro's rack solution is specifically designed for Nvidia‘s Blackwell platform.
New storage system features multiple Nvidia GPUs for high-speed throughput.
The two competitors have become allies in a bid to stave off Arm.
Jointly designed architecture is intended for GPU-loaded AI factories, which will generate tremendous amounts of heat.
HPE unveils one server, and Dell launches several compute and storage products.
New Epyc chip to offer scale-up performance or scale-out capacity for a wide range of data center workloads.
Xeon 6 delivers twice the performance of its predecessor, Intel claims.
Altera CEO Sandra Rivera shares ‘big, audacious, ambitious goal’ to dominate FPGA market.
An employee may have inadvertently tipped a major reboot of Intel’s x86 architecture.
SmartNICs are designed around CPU-to-CPU communication, making them less optimal for GPUs, the company argues.
Microsoft and BlackRock aim to launch a $30 billion fund for AI infrastructure with future plans for up to $100 billion in total investment potential.
The news isn’t all good on the foundry front, but it is a step in the right direction for Intel.
The antitrust investigation appears to have no public complainants or perceived victims.
The next generation of processors from Ampere will have up to 512 cores and is designed to fit into existing air-cooled data centers.
Intel’s photonics group demonstrated a new high-speed optical interconnect chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data at the show.
AMD says the $4.9 billion deal to acquire the server maker is 'our next major step' in AI.
Softness in Intel's server business allowed AMD to make progress, but the gap remains very large.
Concerns about the new direction VMware is taking are driving some enterprise customers to consider alternative platforms from vendors such as Scale Computing, Nutanix and Oxide Computer.
Among cloud infrastructure providers, Oracle is finally breaking out, although Amazon, Microsoft and Google still maintain strong leads. Meanwhile, on-premises data center capacity remains stable.
The damage is contained to high-end 13th- and 14th-generation desktop CPUs processors at gamers.
Shipments of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell architecture could be delayed for three months or more, according to published reports.
NeuReality claims its AI appliance can significantly cut costs and energy use in AI data centers.
British chip designer Graphcore has been acquired by Japan's SoftBank Group, which retains significant control over Arm Holdings, its earlier semiconductor investment.
The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 ships with Instinct MI300X accelerators, AMD's high-end GPU accelerators that are designed to compete with Nvidia Hopper processors.
As high-density data centers continue to add AI workloads, there’s growing interest in liquid cooling, thanks to its ability to transfer heat more efficiently than air cooling.
AWS says Graviton4 is its most powerful and energy efficient processor, suited for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2.
Updated infrastructure-as-code management capabilities and expanded SLAs are among the new features from Pure Storage.
‘I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this or not,' said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as he revealed 2026 plans for the company’s Rubin GPU platform.
With the new generation chips, Intel is putting an emphasis on energy efficiency.
Unveiled at Computex 2024. the new AI processing card from AMD will come with much more high-bandwidth memory than its predecessor.
Hyperscalers and chip makers, including AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel and Microsoft, are partnering to develop a high-speed chip interconnect to rival Nvidia’s NVLink technology.
Ampere Computing's annual update on upcoming products and milestones included an increase in core count for its Arm-based AmpereOne server chips as well as a new working group for jointly developing AI SOCs.
x86 processor shipments finally realigned with typical seasonal trends for client and server processors, according to Mercury Research.
The highly scalable, low-power 400G PCIe Gen 5.0 Ethernet adapters are designed for AI in the data center.
The company adds new storage controller support as well as AWS.
The HyperCool direct-to-chip system from ZutaCore is designed to cool up to 120kW of rack power without requiring a facilities modification.
Federal agencies including the IRS and Pentagon will have access to the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD system through MITRE, a nonprofit organization that operates federally funded R&D centers.
While it might be tempting to blame Nvidia for the shortage of HBM, it’s not alone in driving high-performance computing and demand for the memory HPC requires.
Plans call for building an institute to develop digital twins for semiconductor manufacturing and share resources among chip developers.
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