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There’s no getting away from the fact that AMD’s big revenue potential exists in the server space. While the glitz and the glamor is all about the Ryzen, the big money is with EPYC. Heading up AMD’s EPYC efforts, as well as their extended collaborations in the embedded and semi-custom segments, is Forrest Norrod, the SVP and GM of the Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group at AMD. We spent some time at Computex talking with Forrest about the upcoming premise of Rome, and how AMD now sees itself in the server and enterprise ecosystem.
Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2019: AMD Keynote Live Blog (10am TPE, 10pm ET, 02:00 UTC)
AMD is on a hell of a ride. With the public still wanting more information about Zen 2 and Navi from the CES announcements, Dr. Lisa Su will be...
23 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 5/26/2019
Intel Announces 8 Core i9-9900KS: Every Core at 5.0 GHz, All The Time
Last year, Intel showcased a CPU during its keynote a processor with all of its cores at 5 GHz. Today, that becomes a reality – Intel is set to...
136 by Ian Cutress on 5/26/2019
Chinese Zen-Based CPU on Sale: Sugon Workstation with 8-Core Hugon Dhyana Processor
Sugon, an OEM of servers and workstations in China, has started selling of machines equipped with the Hugon Dhyana processors. These are processors based on AMD’s 1st Generation Zen...
47 by Anton Shilov on 5/23/2019
Report: Arm Suspends Business with Huawei - Future Chip Development In Jeopardy
In the latest event in the quickly moving saga that is Huawei’s technology export blacklisting by the United States Government, the BBC has published a report this morning claiming...
114 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2019
AMD Reiterates 7nm Roadmap: Navi, Matisse, & Rome to Launch in Q3
AMD this week held its Annual Shareholder Meeting where it reiterated its current technology roadmap and once again confirmed that that its major products set to be released this...
54 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2019
Hot Chips 31 (2019) Programme Announced: Zen, Navi, POWER, Lakefield, Gen-Z, Turing, Lisa Su Keynote
There are two trade shows every year that I love. Computex in June is great, because the scale of the industry it covers, and Taipei is a wonderful location...
17 by Ian Cutress on 5/16/2019
Upgrading from an Intel Core i7-2600K: Testing Sandy Bridge in 2019
One of the most popular processors of the last decade has been the Intel Core i7-2600K. The design was revolutionary, as it offered a significant jump in single core...
202 by Ian Cutress on 5/10/2019
Intel Xeon Update: Ice Lake and Cooper Lake Sampling, Faster Future Updates
Emerging workloads will require considerably higher performance, and in order to solve upcoming challenges Intel has adjusted its product roadmaps quite significantly. One of the key things that Intel...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/9/2019
Intel Details Manufacturing through 2023: 7nm, 7+, 7++, with Next Gen Packaging
At Intel's Investor Day today, CEO Bob Swan and Murthy Renduchintala spoke to the ability of the company with respect to its manufacturing capabilities. Intel has historically been strong...
237 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 5/8/2019
The Larrabee Chapter Closes: Intel's Final Xeon Phi Processors Now in EOL
Intel this week initiated its product discontinuance plan for its remaining Xeon Phi 7200-series processors codenamed Knights Mill (KML), bringing an end to the family of processors that have...
22 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 5/7/2019
US Dept. of Energy Announces Frontier Supercomputer: Cray and AMD to Build 1.5 Exaflop Machine
The history of the computing industry is one of constant progress. Processors get faster, storage gets cheaper, and memory gets denser. We see the repercussions of this advancement through...
76 by Ryan Smith on 5/7/2019
Amazon AWS Offers Another AMD EPYC-Powered Instance: T3a
Amazon Web Services has further expanded its usage of AMD EPYC-based machines for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Last week the company started to offer its new EPYC-powered...
19 by Anton Shilov on 5/1/2019
AMD Q1 FY 2019 Earnings Report: Revenue Down But Margins Up
Today AMD announced their Q1 FY 2019 earnings. Revenues were down 23% year-over-year, coming in at $1.27 billion. Gross margin for the quarter was 41%, up 5% from a...
17 by Brett Howse on 4/30/2019
AMD: 7nm ‘Navi’ GPU & 'Rome' CPU to Launch in Q3
Offering a brief update on the state of future products as part of its post-earnings conference call this afternoon, AMD has confirmed that both their upcoming Rome (Zen 2...
38 by Ryan Smith & Anton Shilov on 4/30/2019
AMD 50th Anniversary: Ryzen 7 2700X and Radeon VII Gold Edition Products
Set to celebrate its 50th anniversary on May 1, AMD is rolling out two limited edition products to memorialize the date. The AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Gold Edition CPU...
24 by Anton Shilov on 4/29/2019
Intel: CPU Shortages Will Persist Throughout Q3 2019
Although Intel invested some additional $1.5 billion to boost its 14 nm fab output last year, it looks like its supply problems are not going to be solved until...
38 by Anton Shilov on 4/26/2019
Intel Reports Q1 FY 2019 Results: Revenue Flat, PCs Up, Servers Down
This afternoon, Intel announced their earnings for Q1 of their 2019 fiscal year. Revenue for the first quarter came in at $16.1 billion, which is flat compared to Q1...
18 by Brett Howse on 4/25/2019
Intel Starts Qualification of Ice Lake CPUs, Raises 10nm Volume Expectation for 2019
During its Q1 earnings call, Intel provided an update regarding its 10 nm process technology as well as the ramp up of its Ice Lake-U processor for notebooks, which...
70 by Anton Shilov on 4/25/2019
Intel 9th Gen Core Processors: All the Desktop and Mobile 45W CPUs Announced
How Intel has launched its range of ninth generation processors has been an odd and awkward one. Despite the launch of the 8-core 9900K last year, we still haven’t...
134 by Ian Cutress on 4/23/2019
AMD 50th Anniversary Ryzen CPUs Listed At Retailers (ShopBLT)
Every company loves a good anniversary. It's a time to explain the origin story, show how the company came to the fore, and discuss the next year's of business...
7 by Ian Cutress on 4/18/2019
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