Nvidia’s Project Denver was going to be x86
Published in Network


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
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Thursday, 21 November 2024 08:46

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.

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire
Published in Network
Tuesday, 19 November 2024 10:51

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire


And not in a good way

Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data centre processors have significant overheating problems when installed in high-capacity server racks.

AMD replaces Chipzilla as the elite server supplier
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Loses in EPYC battle

Intel has lost its crown as the elite data centre CPU market leader.

Russia smuggles high-tech servers through Indian loopholes
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Sanctions, what sanctions?

The very nice Tsar of all the Russia’s Tsar Vladimir [this land is my land] Putin has worked out a way to evade US technology sanctions by ordering an Indian takeaway.

Motherboard allows 24TB RAM and 384 AMD EPYC Turin cores
Published in PC Hardware


A petabyte storage

ASRock Rack's TURIN2D48G-2L+ has just been released and it appears to go to 11 on the specs as iff no one told the designers to cut back on anything.

Expensive AMD server chip going cheap in eBay
Published in PC Hardware


70.38 per cent off the official price

TechRadar has found shedloads of AMD’s EPYC “Bergamo” 9754 server-grade processor from the EPYC 9004 series going dirt cheap on eBay.

MSI releases Nvidia MGX-based AI servers
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Friday, 18 October 2024 11:22

MSI releases Nvidia MGX-based AI servers


Aimed at AI data centres

MSI has lifted the kimono on its Nvidia MGX-based AI servers which are being pitched to handle scalable, energy-efficient AI workloads in modern data centres.

Google will have its own server chips by 2025
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Thursday, 16 February 2023 10:06

Google will have its own server chips by 2025


Cloud providers move away from Intel and AMD

Google wants to install its own custom designed server processors by 2025 following its rival Amazon.

SK hynix claims to be building fastest server memory modules
Published in PC Hardware


8Gbps or roughly 8000MT/s

SK hynix claims to be building the world's fastest server DDR5 memory modules which will be capable of 8Gbps or roughly 8000MT/s.