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Nvidia Makes HPC Play With Bright Computing Acquisition
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The timing was right. In order for Bright Computing to grow, it needed somebody bigger to back them. And we both saw the opportunity to come together because people are always asking why Nvidia doesn’t have its own HPC management software,’ says Charlie Boyle, Nvidia’s vice president and general manager for DGX systems.
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Intel Names Michelle Johnston Holthaus As PC Unit’s New Leader
by Dylan Martin
Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel’s top sales and marketing executive, is taking over as head of the Client Computing Group, the chipmaker’s biggest moneymaker. The move means that Intel’s two biggest business units – CCG and the Datacenter and AI Group, which is led by Sandra Rivera – will be led by women.
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Intel Names Micron Exec To Succeed George Davis As New CFO
by Dylan Martin
David Zinsner is taking over Intel’s CFO role from George S. Davis, who plans to retire in May. Zinsner was most recently executive vice president and CFO of Micron Technology, a Boise, Idaho-based company that manufactures memory and storage products.
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CES 2022: Qualcomm Partners With Microsoft On AR Glasses
by Wade Tyler Millward
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon made the announcement during one of the few in-person press conferences held during CES 2022 in Las Vegas.
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CES 2022: Lenovo’s New ThinkPad Debut Expected In May
by Wade Tyler Millward
The ThinkPad Z13 and Z16 are pre-loaded with Windows 11, powered by Next-Gen AMD Ryzen PRO Processors for mobile and feature the Microsoft Pluton security processor.
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AMD Reveals ‘3-D’ Ryzen 7, Teases 5nm Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs
by Dylan Martin
In addition to the new Ryzen 7 5800X3D due out this spring, AMD is promising a whole new generation of Ryzen desktop processors in the second half of this year and said that the CPUs will be capable of hitting 5GHz on all cores.
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AMD’s New Ryzen 6000 Laptop CPUs Reach 5GHz, 24-Hour Battery Life
by Dylan Martin
Revealed at CES 2022, the chipmaker says the new Ryzen 6000 mobile CPUs come with big performance and efficiency gains thanks to the new Zen 3+ architecture, which is complemented by the graphical horsepower of AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture.
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CES 2022: HP Details New Dragonfly, EliteBook, Envy Devices
by Wade Tyler Millward
The HP devices will come out in March, April and the spring.
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CES 2022: HP Reveals Laptops With New AMD CPUs
by Wade Tyler Millward
HP’s EliteBook 805 G9 Series of PCs will have Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system and AMD’s Ryzen PRO 6000 Series processors
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Analysts: FTC Makes Nvidia-Arm Deal Unlikely, Arm’s Future Uncertain
by Dylan Martin
Analysts say the new FTC lawsuit makes the Nvidia-Arm deal very unlikely and would leave Arm with few good options for its future. ‘Unfortunately, in this situation, in order to grow, [Arm needs] a lot of money because they need to be investing in parallel categories beyond mobility,’ one analyst says.
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FTC Sues To Block Nvidia’s $40 Billion Acquisition Of Arm
by Dylan Martin
The Federal Trade Commission alleges that the deal would ‘harm competition’ in three global markets where Nvidia competes using Arm-based products: high-level advanced driver assistance systems for passenger cars, data processing units, and Arm-based CPUs for cloud service providers.
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Intel Hires Top AMD Data Center GPU Exec Ogi Brkic For HPC Role
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant confirms to CRN that it has hired Ogi Brkic as vice president and general manager of the Super Compute product line within the chipmaker’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group. The hire was made ahead of Intel’s plan to challenge AMD and Nvidia with its Ponte Vecchio GPU next year.
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Nvidia CEO: Omniverse Is One Of Our ‘Largest Graphics Opportunities’ Yet
by Dylan Martin
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, believes virtual 3-D worlds will be commonplace in the next phase of the internet and, as a result, drive major demand for the chipmaker’s new Omniverse software and its GPUs. ‘Hopefully one of these days — we’ll try to realize it as fast as we can — every transaction that goes into the internet touches a GPU,’ he said during Nvidia’s earnings call for the third quarter of its 2022 fiscal year.
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AMD Continues To Steal Top 500 Supercomputer Share From Intel
by Dylan Martin
AMD now powers 73 of the top 500 supercomputers, according to the new fall 2021 list released Monday by the eponymous Top500 organization. That’s more than triple the 21 clusters it powered a year ago, underlining the chipmaker’s ascension in the high-performance computing space.
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