U.S. Govt Blacklists Chinese Tech Firms Loongson and Inspur By Anton Shilov published 3 March 23 CPU developer Loongson and server maker Inspur added to the U.S. DoC's Entity List.
Huawei Hides Displayed Chips to Protect Suppliers at MWC By Anton Shilov published 2 March 23 Huawei hides chip suppliers while displaying new server motherboards at MWC 2023.
AMD Will Hold 20% of Server CPU Market in 2023, Analysts Say By Anton Shilov published 22 February 23 AMD and Arm expected to gain server share this year at Intel's expense.
Heata Offers UK Residents Free Hot Water in Exchange for Cooling Its Servers By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal published 15 February 23 Heata is offering UK residents (some) free hot water (for a year), heated by one of the company's servers (installed in your home).
Chinese Nuclear Lab Uses Intel, Nvidia Chips Despite Ban By Anton Shilov published 30 January 23 China's Academy of Engineering Physics used Xeon Gold and GeForce RTX for nuclear research.
Intel's Return to HEDT? Xeon W9-3495X Hits Geekbench By Anton Shilov published 26 January 23 Intel's 56-core CPU for HEDTs and extreme workstations tested for the first time, but there's a catch.
Amazon Saved Over 10PB of Vital Ukrainian Data Using Snowball Edge SSDs By Anton Shilov published 20 December 22 Amazon saved 10 petabytes of crucial Ukrainian government data using briefcase sized SSDs.
China's Access to Arm's Advanced Chip Designs Limited by U.S. Export Controls By Anton Shilov published 14 December 22 China's Alibaba cannot get Arm's Neoverse V core IP design due to export restrictions of the U.S. and the U.K.
Chinese 128-Core CPU World Record Expelled From Rankings: No Availability By Anton Shilov published 6 November 22 While Chinese CPUs can win SPEC integer benchmark results, they are not available for purchase.
ISP Worker Gets Beefy 262TB Netflix Caching Server for Free By Aaron Klotz published 28 October 22 Its a monster 10 year old server, even by today's standards
ASRock Ditches Intel Ethernet, Cuts Price of Threadripper Pro Motherboard by $356 By Anton Shilov published 14 October 22 ASRock quietly launches WRX80 Creator revision 2.0 motherboard with Marvell 10GbE controller at $899.
SK Hynix Shows Off 48GB and 96GB DDR5-6400 Memory Modules By Anton Shilov published 29 September 22 SK Hynix displays 48GB and 96GB DDR5-6400 RDIMMs for next-generation servers.
Morgan Stanley Fined $35 Million for Not Encrypting HDDs, Servers By Anton Shilov published 21 September 22 Morgan Stanley to pay $35 million for not protecting personal identifying information.
Marvell Unveils LiquidSecurity 2 HSM: Up to 1,000,000 AES Ops/s By Anton Shilov published 14 September 22 Marvell's new hardware security module can protect any server with (almost) unbreakable encryption.
U.S. GPU Export Restrictions Hit AMD, China's Tech Giants By Anton Shilov published 1 September 22 New high-performance GPU export rules to China affect AMD and China's multi-billion high-tech companies.
Intel Talks Sapphire Rapids Respin, Granite Rapids Power-On, AWS Deal By Anton Shilov published 29 July 22 Intel preps to turn on Xeon Scalable 'Granite Rapids' processor on Intel 3 fabrication node.
Gigabyte Details Dual-Socket Ampere Motherboard: Up to 256 Cores Per Box By Anton Shilov published 28 July 22 Gigabyte has introduced the industry's first 2-way Ampere Altra/Altra Max motherboard, GPU and DPU-powered Ampere servers.
Intel's 56-Core Sapphire Rapids Tested: Faster Than 64-Core EPYC By Anton Shilov published 28 July 22 Intel's Xeon Platinum 8480+ 'Sapphire Rapids' beats regular AMD's EPYC 7763, but fails to beat EPYC 7773X.
ASRock Launches Server Motherboard for AMD's Ryzen Threadripper CPU By Anton Shilov published 20 July 22 ASRock Rack wants to use AMD's Ryzen Threadripper CPUs for servers.
China-Made 128-Core Arm Chip Takes Overall Performance Lead in Integer Workloads By Anton Shilov published 14 July 22 Alibaba's 128-core T-Head Yitian 710 scores absolute record in SPEC CPU2017_int.