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Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:08:14 +0000

All presidents of these United States have the bully pulpit from which to lecture the American people and, for the past century, the rest of the world about how the global economy and culture should work. …

Why TSMC Did A $100 Billion Deal With Trump On US Chip Manufacturing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:51:32 +0000

As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …

It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:22:05 +0000

In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 floating point processing format. …

Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:43:21 +0000

Hot on the heels of our overview of the state of the Arm server CPU landscape yesterday, chip maker Qualcomm, which dabbled in Arm server chips a few years back, announced that it was acquiring startup Nuvia for its Arm chips and design team. …

Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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What Qualcomm’s Exit From Arm Server Chips Means

Thu, 10 May 2018 17:31:12 +0000

Broadcom may not have wanted to be in the Arm server chip business any more, but its machinations since it was acquired by Avago Technology two years ago have certainly sent ripples through that nascent market. …

What Qualcomm’s Exit From Arm Server Chips Means was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Battle For Datacenter Compute: Qualcomm Centriq Versus Intel Xeon

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:25:07 +0000

Putting more and more cores on a single CPU and then having two CPUs in a standard workhorse server is something that yields the best price/performance for certain kinds of compute-hungry workloads, and these days, particularly those who want top bin Xeon parts and the cost of the processor is no object because it saves on the total number of server nodes that has to be deployed. …

Battle For Datacenter Compute: Qualcomm Centriq Versus Intel Xeon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Deep Dive Into Qualcomm’s Centriq Arm Server Ecosystem

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:00:36 +0000

Qualcomm launched its Centriq server system-on-chip (SoC) a few weeks ago. …

Deep Dive Into Qualcomm’s Centriq Arm Server Ecosystem was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

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Qualcomm’s Amberwing Arm Server Chip Finally Takes Flight

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:32:45 +0000

It is going to be a busy week for chip maker Qualcomm as it formally jumps from smartphones to servers with its new “Amberwing” Centriq 2400 Arm server processor during the same week that it has received an unsolicited $130 billion takeover offer from sometimes rival chipmaker Broadcom. …

Qualcomm’s Amberwing Arm Server Chip Finally Takes Flight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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How The Largest Tech Deal In History Might Affect Systems

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:25:36 +0000

Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has an appetite for tech, and securing funding for Dell to take itself private and then go out and buy EMC and VMware is now going to take a backseat in terms of deal size – and in potential ripple effects in the datacenter – now that chip giant Broadcom is making an unsolicited bid, backed by Silver Lake, to take over often-times chip rival Qualcomm. …

How The Largest Tech Deal In History Might Affect Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Qualcomm Builds Momentum For Centriq ARM Server Chip

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:17:57 +0000

The talk about ARM-based servers pushing their way into the datacenter has been going for almost a decade now, during which time we have seen companies like Samsung drop their interest before they really got going on it and others like AMD getting an ARM-based chip out but then turning their attention to other initiatives. …

Qualcomm Builds Momentum For Centriq ARM Server Chip was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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