Data Center

A new year, a new GPU from Bolt

A start-up in Silicon-Valley has an idea for a new type of super high-performance GPU, targeted at the data-center. The group at Bolt has completed their first round of funding and is looking for savvy VC who share their view about the data explosion and the need for data accelerators. Bolt’s HPC GPU. (Source: Bolt)   Bolt Graphics is building … Read more

The Genesis of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

In the first decade, the technology gods separated the data and the code and invented the mainframe. It was expensive to install, complicated to operate and did not have much software. Then the technology gods created an IT department to feed and care for the mainframe. Corporate management thought it was too expensive, but the IT department solved more problems … Read more

Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results

Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, yet enjoyed a … Read more

AMD Q2 2020 results

AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments and up 349% year-to-year. “We delivered strong second-quarter results, led by record notebook and server processor sales as Ryzen and … Read more

AMD Q1 2020 results

AMD turned 50 in May 2019   AMD’s first quarter was down from Q4, but up year to year in sales and profits. Revenue was $1.79 billion, up 40% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Revenue was down 16% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments. “We executed well in the first quarter, navigating the … Read more

Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results

Nvidia rides the AI wave   Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.7 billion, up 8% from last quarter, and up 40% from last year. The quarter was the first increase in year-over-year sales since Q3’18.   “Adoption of Nvidia accelerated computing drove excellent results, … Read more

The evolution of cloud infrastructure

I had a conversation with Jacob Smith, the CMO of Packet. Packet is a company that manages the raw infrastructure in data centers and has various products that automate data center tasks. They are being acquired by Equinix, of dot com infamy, who has quietly returned to a very large presence in US data infrastructure. The fun part of it … Read more