Hardware

Hyperscalers’ decommissioned gear flies off the shelves as soon as it’s available, according to the vendor.

CEO Renee James says beginning next year, Ampere will sell chips with cores designed in house instead of using Arm designs.

CEO Sundar Pichai said TPU V4 clusters were a “historic milestone” for the company.

Server CPU supply may be fine, but it takes more than a CPU to build a data center.

Confidential computing in Armv9, called Arm CCA, builds on TrustZone secure enclave technology in mobile chips.

Minute inconsistencies introduced in manufacturing make every chip different from the rest and can be used for authentication.

Its strategy now is to emphasize customizability and optimization for high-performance processor cores – convenient if you may be acquired by Nvidia.

The Data Center Podcast: Charlie Boyle, general manager of the Nvidia DGX unit, on AI hardware and data centers.

The company says its Video Coding Unit (VCU) enabled it to handle the massive spike in YouTube usage during the pandemic.

“This is not going to go away anytime soon.” The global shortage of semiconductors is plaguing automakers, data center owners, and electronics manufacturers.