Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter
Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs
On-Prem27 Mar 2023 |
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Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition
Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while?
Virtualization22 Mar 2023 | 10
Is this the year 100GE NICs go mainstream? If you're into AI, it might be
Gotta go fast!
Networks10 Mar 2023 | 5
Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab
Slurps ‘Fungible’, a manufacturer of DPUs and fabrics that will join Redmond’s engineering gang
Off-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 2
VMware has clouded the SmartNIC market, not created it
Analysis Virtzilla has built itself an island. Important players aren't welcome to visit and might go elsewhere
Virtualization11 Sep 2022 | 5
What are Nvidia and AMD doing getting involved with SmartNICs and VMware?
VMware Explore A gentle primer on these chip giants' accelerators – and your essential guide to the conference so far
Networks31 Aug 2022 | 1
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VMware reckons 20% of server cores can come back to work thanks to vSphere 8 and SmartNICs
VMware Explore Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again
Virtualization30 Aug 2022 | 1
AMD smartNICs to meld ASICs, FPGAs, Arm cores
Hot Chips Why choose one when you can use them all?
Networks27 Aug 2022 | 7
SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026
Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure
Networks11 Aug 2022 | 5
Intel’s smartNICs probably aren’t for you (yet) says Intel
'Right now, the focus is on the super-high volume'
Networks25 Jul 2022 | 6
TikTok's chief security officer steps aside, thanks to Oracle move
Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs
CSO18 Jul 2022 |
Linux Foundation thinks it can get you interested in smartNICs
Step one: Make them easier to program
Networks21 Jun 2022 | 8
Alibaba Cloud challenges AWS with its own custom smartNIC
Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next?
Networks14 Jun 2022 |
Nvidia promises annual updates across CPU, GPU, DPU lines
Computex Arm one year, x86 the next, and always faster than a certain chip shop that still can't ship even one standalone GPU
Systems24 May 2022 | 1
SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next?
High pricing, lack of software make smartNICs a tough sell, despite offload potential
Networks20 May 2022 | 4
Those NitroTPMs Amazon teased now really are coming to AWS EC2
Yes, give those smartNICs something to do
PaaS + IaaS13 May 2022 | 1
Intel sticks with FPGAs and ASICs for next-gen IPUs
Intel Vision Chip giant sticking with multi-architecture ASIC/FPGA approach through 2024
Systems10 May 2022 | 1
VMware says server sprawl is back, and SmartNICs are the solution
More details emerge about 'Project Monterey' and its role driving infrastructure workloads into hybrid clouds
Virtualization27 Apr 2022 | 3
AMD to acquire SmartNIC and networking firm Pensando for $1.9 billion
Strengthens SDN smarts for hyperscalers, small clouds, and maybe 5G, gives Xilinx some work too
Networks04 Apr 2022 | 5
Arm sees support path to heterogeneous compute
Toward making software development 'frictionless' over multiple processors, accelerators
Software29 Mar 2022 |
Intel axes older FPGA cards, moves development into hands of customers
If you want your own custom SmartNIC, knock yourself out, says x86 giant
Networks16 Mar 2022 | 5
SDN contender Pluribus ports network OS to Nvidia SmartNICs
Here’s another reason to do hyperscale thing of offloading network functions to an accelerator
Networks16 Mar 2022 | 1
Marvell, Dell team on SmartNIC for 5G servers
HPE and Qualcomm did likewise last week, because vanilla x86 isn’t going to cut it on the edge
Networks22 Feb 2022 | 2
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