Intel’s strategic argument about enterprise AI is that the value of a model depends on the system that surrounds it. In an article by executives Bill Pearson and Anil Nanduri, the company positions open software as the connective tissue linking CPUs, GPUs, data, and business applications. The message is straightforward: accelerator… Read More
Akhilesh Kumar & Krishnakanth Sistla, Intel
Diamond Rapids is Intel’s next-generation Xeon processor, designed around the proposition that hyperscale performance increasingly depends on moving, processing, and protecting data as efficiently as executing instructions. The architecture replaces the conventional… Read More
As I mentioned in my previous blog “NVIDIA Claims TSMC 20nm will not Scale?” Jen-Hsun Huang is a very entertaining guy. I always listen to the NVIDIA conference calls because you never know what he will say next. Clearly he is a smart guy so you have to ask yourself why all the rhetoric?
In the Forbes article NVIDIA: Intel should let us… Read More
Time to ring the Bell. With the iPhone 4S, Apple has just surpassed the 70% gross margin metric that usually equates to a compute platform becoming an industry standard. IBM’s mainframe achieved it in the 1960s with the 360 series and still is able to crank it out with their Z-series. The combined Intel and Microsoft tandem (Wintel)… Read More
Every Semiconductor Analyst has given Intel the once over a hundred times about their slowing PC unit volume. They are looking in the wrong place because the true secret of the Q2 earnings – in my humble opinion – is that Intel’s factories are full and parts are on allocation. What???
Check it out, high-end, 8 and 10 core XEON processors… Read More
