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‘Small But Mighty’ Intel Team Is Helping Partners Win With vPro
by Dylan Martin
Intel’s nascent vPro ecosystem enablement team is helping partners identify new ways to monetize the vPro platform while leading integration efforts with MSP vendors like Datto. ‘We recognized over the years that we need to lean in more and we need to understand how we help the channel sell,’ Intel’s Carla Rodriguez says.
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How Intel Is Working With Partners To Bring Some Normalcy To Life
by Dylan Martin
‘The idea of the solutions that we’re partnering with customers on is really trying to think about it from a protection and preventative measure [perspective],’ Intel’s Gina Merjanian says of the ways the company is working with partners to return some sense of normalcy to the world and reduce disruptions caused by the pandemic.
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Intel Deal To Sell NAND Memory Biz To SK Hynix Reportedly Imminent
by Dylan Martin
In its most recent quarter, Intel’s Nonvolatile Solutions Group, which includes the chipmaker’s SSD products and Intel Optane memory modules, grew 76 percent to $1.7 billion.
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Intel Unveils Next-Gen SmartNICs As Nvidia Plots DPU Takeover
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker’s new FPGA-based SmartNIC technologies for cloud data centers and 5G networks are part of a growing portfolio of connectivity products meant to help data center and network operators improve the performance and total cost of ownership for how data flows from one point to another.
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Intel Xeon Ice Lake CPUs To Get SGX With Expanded Security Features
by Dylan Martin
‘Now we‘re really bringing it to the [Xeon] Scalable processors for the first time, in a much bigger way,’ an Intel fellow tells CRN of the expanded security capabilities for the upcoming third-generation Xeon Scalable processors, which includes Total Memory Encryption and larger Intel SGX enclaves.
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AMD Nearing Deal To Acquire Xilinx For Over $30 Billion: WSJ
by Dylan Martin
If the chipmaker acquires Xilinx, it would give AMD an arsenal of products to compete with Intel’s reprogrammable chip solutions in the data center, among other markets. ‘We‘re uniquely positioned, unlike most companies in the data center space, the IT solution space, to cover the whole gamut of segments within IT,’ a Xilinx rep told CRN earlier this year.
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AMD Unveils Zen 3 Architecture, Ryzen 5000 CPUs With 19% IPC Uplift, Higher Boost
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker says its new Ryzen 5000 desktop processors are faster and more efficient than Intel’s latest Core products. ‘Zen 3 increases our lead in overall performance. It increases our lead in power efficiency, and also now, it delivers the best single threaded performance and gaming performance as well,’ AMD CEO Lisa Su says.
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Intel Discontinues Dozens Of First-Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs
by Dylan Martin
The new product discontinuance notice, issued ahead of Intel’s Ice Lake server launch, cites parts ranging from the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M to the Intel Xeon Bronze 3104, which constitutes most of the processors in the first-generation Intel Scalable product family, code-named Skylake.
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Intel Says Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs With PCIe 4.0 Coming Q1 2021
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker slips in a disclosure about its upcoming 11th-gen Intel Core processors a day ahead of AMD’s big Zen 3 reveal. ‘Intel announcing 11th-gen Core will significantly improve the competitive position when customers are evaluating Intel versus AMD in PCIe support,’ one partner says.
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Nvidia Wants To Bring New BlueField DPUs To ‘Every Server’
by Dylan Martin
The GPU juggernaut is introducing a new type of processor backed by VMware and Red Hat that offloads hypervisor functionality from the CPU to improve data center economics and introduce new security and management capabilities. ‘We believe that the DPU belongs in every server going forward, regardless of the application workload running there,’ Nvidia’s Manuvir Das says.
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Intel Spins Out Omni-Path Interconnect Business Into Stand-Alone Company
by Dylan Martin
‘It started becoming apparent to me that Intel was going to de-emphasize this product line. And I spent the bulk of my career working on it, and I could see that it still had very big potential,’ Phil Murphy, one of Omni-Path’s architects and CEO of Cornelis Networks, says of his plan to take on Nvidia’s Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect business.
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Nvidia NGC To Supercharge AI On VMware Cloud, vSphere And Tanzu
by Dylan Martin
‘We are joining forces now to say, ‘hey, use this same platform and run your workloads,’ which essentially means that we can bring AI to every enterprise on top of the platform that they are already using,’ VMware executive Krish Prasad says of the upcoming integration of Nvidia’s NGC hub for GPU-accelerated software.
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Arm Says New Neoverse V1, N2 Server CPUs Faster Than Intel, AMD
by Dylan Martin
‘We know the alternative architecture isn’t standing still, but we’re very confident that Neoverse N2 will continue to represent the ultimate in per socket performance and Neoverse V1 will offer the ultimate per thread performance into the future,’ Arm executive Chris Bergey says of the newly disclosed server CPU designs.
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AMD Reveals Ryzen, Athlon 3000C CPUs For Faster Chromebooks
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker’s new Ryzen and Athlon 3000 C-Series CPUs will allow OEMs like HP Inc. and Lenovo to make mid-level and premium Chromebooks for the consumer, education and enterprise markets. ‘As we’ve looked now [at] how we can continue that growth in the market, the clear answer is more performance, faster CPUs, making a bigger bet,’ AMD’s Robert Hallock says.
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