CPUs and Processors

Intel’s AI spinoff is about platform neutrality

The goal is platform neutrality, although Intel still expects to sell its HPC solutions.

Nvidia eyes Q2 production of delayed AI chip for China

November's planned launch of H20, the most powerful of three Nvidia GPUs designed to comply with new US export rules, is now pushed to a limited release in Q2.

Intel launches AI chips for servers and clients

New 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and Core Ultra mobile processor family are aimed at bringing AI to all compute devices.

AMD launches Instinct AI accelerator to compete with Nvidia

AMD enters the AI acceleration game with broad industry support. First shipping product is the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD Instinct MI300X.

IBM unveils Heron quantum processor and new modular quantum computer

IBM also shared its 10-year quantum computing roadmap, which prioritizes improvements in gate operations and error-correction capabilities.

Who’s developing quantum computers?

What Qualcomm’s rumored exit from data centers means

Anonymous sources say Qualcomm is looking to shut down or sell its Centriq line of ARM-based data center processors, causing people to speculate about the company's plans.

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

The new chips, code-named Everest, will be made with a 7nm manufacturing process, sport as many as 50 billion transistors and target AI, communications and complex data analysis workloads in the data center

New Spectre derivative bug haunts Intel processors

Researchers have discovered how to use the Spectre design flaw to break into the SGX secure environment of an Intel CPU to steal information. A fix is coming March 16.

IBM to ship its Power9 system this month, claiming AI leadership in the data center

The Power System AC922 servers offer Power9 processors with up to 22 cores, running Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux