AMD gobbles server share while Chipzilla spins its wheels
Mercury numbers show AMD's silicon chewing through the market
Mercury Research's latest bean-counting for the first quarter of 2025 shows AMD pulling off another blinder, clocking a record 39.4 per cent server revenue share. That figure is up a chunky 6.5 points compared to the same time last year and 3.1 points better than the previous quarter.
MSI’s AI server lineup gets serious upgrade
Built on NVIDIA’s MGX and DGX Station architectures
MSI has tipped up to Comptex 2025 flaunting its latest AI server arsenal built on Nvidia's MGX and DGX Station architectures.
AMD announces new EPYC 4005 Zen 5 server CPUs
Six to sixteen cores for entry-level enterprise
AMD has launched new EPYC 4005 series "Grado" processors aimed at the entry-level enterprise market, featuring six to sixteen Zen 5 cores and based on the same and widely deployed AM5 socket that was already used for AMD EPYC 4004 series CPUs.
Vole jams brakes on global server sprawl
Microsoft trims data centre ambitions
The Software King of the World, Microsoft, is quietly pulling back on data centre projects from Chicago to Jakarta as jitters grow over AI demand forecasts and the cost of building its cloudy empire.
Oracle fumbles denial as 6 million user records leak
SSO breach pretty obvious
Oracle is in full-blown damage control mode after hacker “rose87168” claimed to breach its Oracle Cloud login servers.
MSI releases new servers with Intel Xeon 6 inside
Designed for AI applications and cloud
MSI has unveiled a new range of high-performance server platforms powered by the latest Intel Xeon 6 family of processors, which it claims will provide unprecedented computing power and energy efficiency for modern data centres.
AMD achieves record server market share
Mercury Research data
According to the latest figures from Mercury Research, AMD has reached a record 35.5 per cent share of server revenue, alongside sizable gains in client processor market share.
Kottapalli flees Intel for Qualcomm
After 28 years working for Chipzilla
Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Intel veteran and lead engineer on numerous Xeon server processors, has exited the company to join Qualcomm.
Nvidia’s Project Denver was going to be x86
Legal constraints meant it went to Arm
Nvidia’s Project Denver was supposed to be based on x86 tech, but things took a turn thanks to legal wranglings involving Transmeta’s Tokamak technology. Instead, Nvidia had to pivot to Arm, and the rest is history.
Nvidia reports strong quarterly earnings
Wall Street not impressed with record profits
Proving that they don’t know their arse from their elbow, the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were not impressed by Nvidia’s brilliant quarterly earnings and optimistic projections.
