AMD breaks records
Leaves Chipzilla feeling a bit sick
AMD, the chip maker behind the mighty EPYC and Ryzen processors, has revealed its stunning results for the last quarter of 2023, showing that it is leaving its rival Intel far behind.
AMD shows EPYC Bergamo with 128 Zen 4c cores
Same SP5 socket, and around 35 percent smaller core
AMD unveiled plenty of new products during its Data Center and AI Technology Premiere event in San Francisco, including some details about its 5nm EPYC Bergamo processors for cloud native applications. Shipping now, these EPYC CPUs pack 82b transistors, up to 128 Zen 4c cores, and promise both "the greatest vCPU density and the best energy efficiency.
Intel promises Sierra Forest in the first half of next year
Targeting data centre customers
Intel Sierra Forest, its first semiconductor for data centre customers focused on power efficiency, , would be delivered in the first half of next year.
AMD creates 31 patches to fix Ryzen and EPYC
Swiss cheese
More than 31 security flaws have been found in AMD's Ryzen and EPYC chips.
Azure gets two next-gen VMs with AMD 4th gen EPYC processors
Microsoft gets its foot in the door
After AMD announced its 4th gen EPYC processors, Microsoft has unveiled its two HX-series and HBv4-series -- next-gen Azure VMs.
AMD is now in the fastest supercomputer in the world
Exascale and super-floppy
The AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer is now the first officially recognized exascale supercomputer in the world, topping 1.102 ExaFlop/s during a sustained Linpack run.
AMD’s EPYC 7003-series available soon
Probably by the end of the month
AMD’s server boss Dan McNamara said the company should make its EPYC 7003-series processors with 3D V-Cache available in March.
AMD part of Amazon’s High-Performance Computing
EC2 Hpc6a Instances for HPC Workloads
AMD’s new EPYC chips are behind Amazon’s EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimised High-Performance Computing (HPC) product.
IBM Cloud releases third-generation AMD EPYC servers
128 cores (256 threads) of processing power to play with
IBM Cloud has released Bare Metal Servers using the newly released third-generation AMD EPYC processors.
AMD Milan-X EPYC is a beast with 3D V-Cache
804MB of total cache per socket
AMD has unveiled its 3rd gen AMD EPYC Milan-X CPU, a beast with 3D V-Cache, up to 64 Zen 3 cores, and an 804MB of total cache per socket, promising up to 50 percent average uplift across targeted workloads.