Xeon

Intel’s datacenter architecture boss and Xeon lead jumps to Qualcomm

Sailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon?

Systems14 Jan 2025 | 1

A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs

Analysis Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here

Systems24 Oct 2024 | 25

You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs

Opinion They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle

Systems07 Oct 2024 | 43

With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD

And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it

Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21

Fired-up Pat Gelsinger shoots from the lip at Qualcomm and Nvidia

Computex Intel boss reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics

Systems04 Jun 2024 | 2

AMD's baby Epycs are nothing more than Ryzens in disguise

Not content with stealing share from Intel at the high-end, the House of Zen is going low

Systems21 May 2024 | 15

Facing stiff competition, Intel's Lisa Spelman reflects on Xeon hurdles, opportunities

Interview With Emerald Rapids, Chipzilla's Xeon roadmap is back on track – now it just needs to stay there

Systems18 Dec 2023 | 6

Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it

Oh and it's got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot

Systems14 Dec 2023 | 5

Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them

And they're all tailored for efficiency

Systems20 Sep 2023 | 12

Intel promises next year's Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels

Hot Chips Plus more insights on x86 titan's all E-core datacenter chips

Systems28 Aug 2023 | 16

AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server

Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla

PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15

Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments

Relax, says chip giant, it's an easy fix

Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3

Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons

Chipzilla's not saying much other than 'commercial software' not affected

Systems30 Jun 2023 | 16

QEMU 8.0 hatches more support for Arm and RISC-V

Sapphire Rapids joins the fun, and there's even something for s390x users

Virtualization24 Apr 2023 | 2

Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for?

Analysis Here's what $17,000 of silicon gets you

Systems12 Jan 2023 | 34

After long delays, Sapphire Rapids arrives, full of accelerators and superlatives

Look at our big claims, but don’t think about how AMD beat us in the DDR5, PCIe 5 race

Systems10 Jan 2023 | 26

Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon

Updated Pay for features like SGX through OEMs

Systems22 Nov 2022 | 50

Nope, still no Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors for you right now

Unless you're a US government boffin or can get a seat in Dev Cloud

Systems27 Sep 2022 | 1

This tiny Intel Xeon-toting PC board can take your Raspberry Pi any day

Did someone say ECC on an SBC?

Personal Tech16 Aug 2022 | 54

Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range

Two becomes one as ThinkPad P16 stands alone and HX replaces mobile Xeon

Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 16

Red Hat signals Intel's software-defined silicon will debut in Linux 5.18

Silicon giant still not saying what it will mean in the real world

Systems14 Feb 2022 | 45

India turns on a new supercomputer

Pram Pravega's 3.3 petaFLOPS should make it India's fourth entrant in the Top500 list

HPC07 Feb 2022 | 1

Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why

It might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs … or, you know, not

On-Prem19 Oct 2021 | 47

Google says it's gonna put Intel's 10nm Ice Lake Xeons into its public cloud soon, any day now, just you wait...

Chill out, OK?

PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2021 | 3

Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0

Personal Tech30 Jul 2021 | 20

Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group

Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs

Systems22 Jun 2021 | 6

Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean

Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud

SaaS24 Feb 2021 |

Latest Xeons land in new Huawei server despite looming US ban

Although Huawei’s details are rather thin on this one

Systems19 Jun 2020 | 4

In colossal surprise, Intel says new vPro processors are quite a bit better than the old ones

And just the thing for remote work, which was so not a thing when these were designed

Personal Tech13 May 2020 | 14

AWS unleashes custom Arm processor – the Graviton2 – in new EC2 M6g instance type

Xeon, shmeon: Netflix loves ‘em and AWS has more instance types using it coming soon

On-Prem12 May 2020 |

AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon

All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm?

Systems14 Apr 2020 | 13

Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020

Exclusive Traditional IT titans take backseat behind cloud giants

Systems20 Jan 2020 | 43

Intel: Let's talk about SGX, baby. Let's talk about 2U and me. Let's talk about all the good things, and the bad...

RSA Chipzilla rips sticker off its graphics accelerator, switches off GPU – now you're a security wizard, Harry!

Security27 Feb 2019 | 4

Es are good, Es are good. Xeon Es are good, says Intel: Entry-level workstation CPUs touted

Single-socket job wakes up and smells the Coffee Lake

Systems13 Jul 2018 | 12

Intel chip flaw: Math unit may spill crypto secrets from apps to malware

Updated Nasties on Cores, Xeons may lift computations, mitigations in place or coming

Security13 Jun 2018 | 67

Good luck, have fun: Thanks Xeon SP, now SPEC benchmarks blurt out hundreds of results

Comment We're supposed to sift through this without a tool?

Systems19 Feb 2018 | 7

Ex-Chipzilla exec Arms biz to SoC it to Intel in the data centre

Ampere Computing serving against reigning champ using reheated X-Gene tech

Systems06 Feb 2018 | 5

Intel drags Xeon Phi Knights Hill chips out back... two shots heard

Updated Chipzilla goes back to the drawing board on many-core math accelerator line

HPC16 Nov 2017 | 32

Intel bolts bonus gubbins onto Skylake cores, bungs dozens into Purley Xeon chips

Deep dive Inside Chipzilla's new security measures

Systems12 Jul 2017 | 24

Qualcomm's server silicon has a cloud customer: Packet

Rival ARM-wrestling cloud Scaleway has added 64-core Caviums

On-Prem23 Jun 2017 | 1

EPYC leak! No, it's better than celeb noodz: AMD's forthcoming server CPU

Specs and performance deets in the wild

Systems16 Jun 2017 | 22

Posting in an EPYC thread: AMD renames Xeon-bashing Naples

Data centre CPU boasts more cores, IO, memory bandwidth than Intel's

Storage17 May 2017 | 4

Dell sneaks speeds-and-feeds-free peek at 14th-gen PowerEdge servers

Dell EMC World Ooooo! Hemmed edges!

Storage08 May 2017 | 3

Intel gives Xeon a makeover to bring us colour-coded clouds

Any Chipzilla kit for data centres are now members of the 'Xeon Scalable Family'

On-Prem04 May 2017 | 8

Big-in-Japan AI code 'Chainer' shows how Intel will gun for GPUs

Chainer makes TensorFlow look like treacle, but until this week it didn't speak Xeon

AI + ML07 Apr 2017 | 5

Core Blimey! Azure moving from physical to virtual cores

Updated Chases AWS prices with custom Broadwell E5-2673 v4 at 2.3GHZ

SaaS04 Apr 2017 | 7

Google trumpets cloudy Skylake silicon nobody else is running

Intel just doesn't sell this kit yet. Not in the cloud. Not on-premises. Not anywhere

SaaS27 Feb 2017 | 5

Supermicro boasts of secret super server Silicon Valley win

30,000+ into a single 'valley data centre - but whose is it?

Systems07 Feb 2017 | 9

Intel soundlessly emits Broadwell Xeon E5-4600 v4 quad-socket chips

She's built like an E5 but handles like an E7

On-Prem26 Jul 2016 |

Qualcomm's China JV licences ARMv8-A for server CPUs

First target is Middle Kingdom's Big Data province and its 2.5 million servers

Systems13 Jul 2016 |

You don't need no STEEENKING GPU, says Intel

Xeon E3-1500 v5 plans to 4k-up video and VDI, even more so with 3D Xpoint

Personal Tech01 Jun 2016 | 18

Here's what an Intel Broadwell Xeon with a built-in FPGA looks like

Pic Writing code is so 2013 – you wanna write some hardware instead

On-Prem14 Mar 2016 | 35

JURECA! Germany flips big red switch on 2.2 petaflop supercomputer

Machine open to all fields of data-crunching

HPC16 Nov 2015 | 4

Oracle, Intel team on server with a dimmer switch

Big Red looks to be in custom Xeons for the long haul

Systems04 Jun 2015 | 2

Chips of the world, Unite: Intel bakes Iris Pro gfx into new Xeon

Computex 2015 Plus: New meeting software lets you beam your ugly mug to world+dog

Systems02 Jun 2015 | 1

Intel's new chips are from 'Purley' – know what I mean? Know what I mean? Say no more

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

Systems27 May 2015 | 15