Intel Kills Mainstream Diamond Rapids Platform: What It Means For Xeon And AMD
Intel has quietly killed its mainstream next-generation Xeon platform. Diamond Rapids is still coming for the high end with sixteen memory channels, but the cheaper […]
Data center
Why Intel Still Trails AMD on Power Efficiency
AMD spent the last decade turning power efficiency into a weapon. Zen took them from the value bin to the point where they could bully […]
Intel After Gelsinger: Packaging, PowerVia, and the Real Work Lip-Bu Tan Must Finish
Pat Gelsinger gave Intel what it needed. A modern blueprint that puts chiplets, packaging, and device physics at the center of performance. He also tried […]
AMD Zen 6 And AVX-512: What PC And Server Buyers Should Really Expect
Every time AMD says anything concrete about future Zen cores, the same questions pop up. What does it mean for desktop, what does it mean […]
US blocks Nvidia’s B30A AI chip sales to China as export controls tighten again
The US government is moving to block Nvidia’s latest China focused AI chip, the B30A. On paper B30A is a cut down data center accelerator. […]
Qualcomm AI200 and AI250: rack-scale NPUs that want to undercut Nvidia on inference TCO
Qualcomm has spent a decade dominating smartphone and laptop SoCs. With AI200 and AI250, it wants a piece of the data center too. These new […]
Qualcomm jumps into rack-scale AI with AI200/AI250 to undercut Nvidia and AMD on inference
Qualcomm has announced two rack-scale AI products—AI200 and AI250—marking its first serious swing at data center inference hardware. The pitch is familiar but pointed: win […]
Intel’s ‘Crescent Island’ is an inference-first data-center GPU
Intel has unveiled Crescent Island, an inference-only data-center GPU built on its new Xe3P architecture and paired with up to 160 GB of LPDDR5X. The pitch […]
Micron’s HBM4 clears 2.8 TB/s with samples shipping — HBM4E custom base die points to bespoke AI accelerators
Micron says its next-gen HBM4 already exceeds 2.8 TB/s per stack with >11 Gb/s pin speeds, and that it’s begun shipping customer samples. The company […]