Fujitsu has been in the workstation business for 30 years. The Fujitsu workstation group has a rich and long-standing history. It has developed powerful, reliable leading-edge systems for over 30 years. Fujitsu and Siemens began in 1923. In 1990, Siemens and Nixdorf formed Siemens Nixdorf Computers AG. Siemens Nixdorf started its workstation business in 1991. Those workstations were based on … Read more
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
FLOPS, TOPS, and pops compute accelerators
AMD announced its new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator AIB. The company claims it is the world’s fastest HPC GPU and the first to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64). AMD assessed performance in their labs using their new MI100 32GB HBM2 AIB and ran it with a 1,502 MHz peak boost engine clock. That resulted in 11.54 TFLOPS peak double precision (FP64). … Read more
Similar chip as used in notebooks
(Source: Apple) The heart of Apple’s three new PC, Air, Mac Pro, and Mini is Apple’s new SoC, the M1, announced on the 10th of November 2020. Apple has built SoCs for its smartphones and MP3 players for almost two decades, so this is not a new adventure for the company. The M1 differs from the iPhone’s A13 Bionic … Read more
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Building a dGPU that will physically fit inside a thin and light notebook, including its frame-buffer memory, while keeping the power drain down is no simple feat
AMD was rightfully proud of its RDNA-based RX5000 series AIBs. They won awards, benchmarks, and quite a few customers. But that was April 2018, and the product line only spanned from low-end to midrange. Enter RDNA2, big Navi, RX6n00. Take a seat in the front row son, you ain’t seen nothing yet. AMD says the RDNA2 has a 30% higher … Read more
AMD announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination, says AMD, will create the industry’s leading high-performance computing company. AMD believes it will significantly expand AMD’s product portfolio and customer set across diverse growth markets where Xilinx is an established leader. AMD says the transaction will immediately … Read more
