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Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic

April 10, 2020 0

Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across […]

Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet

April 9, 2020 0

The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and […]

Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge

April 8, 2020 0

VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the […]

Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing

April 7, 2020 0

Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the […]

IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020

April 6, 2020 1

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” It is not clear if either Winston Churchill, who among other things, […]

CXL And Gen-Z Iron Out A Coherent Interconnect Strategy

April 3, 2020 2

To one way of looking at it, a reprise of the Bus Wars from days gone by in the late 1980s and early 1990s would […]

Tachyum Starts From Scratch To Etch A Universal Processor

April 2, 2020 5

For the past five years or so, there has been a lot of talk about accelerated computing being the new normal and about the era […]

Disrupt The Datacenter With Orchestration

April 1, 2020 0

Since 1965, the computer industry has relied on Moore’s Law to accelerate innovation, pushing more transistors into integrated circuits to improve computation performance. Making transistors […]

IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection

March 31, 2020 0

The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or […]

Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge

March 31, 2020 0

In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. The Internet of Things (IoT) and the billions of connected devices and […]

Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips

March 30, 2020 2

Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when […]

A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic

March 30, 2020 0

Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. […]

Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level

March 27, 2020 2

While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. But perhaps the […]