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Intel has been caught in the past trying to make its CPU appear faster or trying to make rival CPUs appear slower. That accusation is back again on Team Blue and AMD is not the one accusing.

Sayan Sen · Feb 20, 2024 · Hot! with 7 comments

Microsoft has issued a workaround for a bug that is triggering BSODs on startup fails on Windows Server 2022 virtual machines on VMware ESXi. It notes that EPYC systems with IOMMU, VBS are affected.

Sayan Sen · Nov 9, 2023 with 0 comments

The AMD EPYC 97X4 Series, formerly codenamed “Bergamo" offers up to 129 cores for data servers. Meta plans to use them in its servers that connect to its WhatsApp and Instagram apps and services.

John Callaham · Jun 13, 2023 with 1 comment

A new report claims that Google is making plans to design its own data server processors that could be put in place by 2025. This could be a big blow to Intel's Xeon and AMD's Epyc processors.

John Callaham · Feb 15, 2023 with 4 comments

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier is now the world's most powerful and efficient supercomputer. The machine is powered by AMD's EPYC CPUs and produces a power of 1.102 exaflops.

Karthik Mudaliar · May 30, 2022 with 9 comments

AMD has launched all-new "Milan-X" EPYC 7003X lineup today which come with the new 3D V-Cache. The new cache implementation allows AMD to cram in 804MB of cache on the flagship 64 core part.

Sayan Sen · Mar 21, 2022 with 9 comments

An AMD employee has proposed a new patch dubbed PAN or Process Adaptive autoNUMA that can significantly boost the performance of multi-core systems like EPYC servers and super-computers.

Sayan Sen · Jan 31, 2022 · Hot! with 0 comments

Intel is working with Green Revolution Cooling (GRC) on cutting-edge Immersion Liquid cooling technology for its next-gen Xeon processors inside servers, data centers, and supercomputers.

Sayan Sen · Jan 14, 2022 with 2 comments

An alleged picture of a leaked AMD EPYC CPU could be that of 128 Zen 4c Bergamo or a 96 Zen 4 Genoa. Both of these architectures are similar and designed for massive cloud and enterprise performance.

Sayan Sen · Jan 5, 2022 with 6 comments

Linux will soon be getting a performance-related patch that will improve the booting time of a large server or workstation system by a factor of 15 or more, by allowing multi-threaded booting.

Sayan Sen · Dec 11, 2021 · Hot! with 41 comments

AMD has said that its CPUs are taking a performance hit on Windows 11 systems and that it has teams working on the issues. Patches should be released later this month through Windows.

Paul Hill · Oct 6, 2021 · Hot! with 78 comments

The latest rumor related to AMD's next-gen Zen 4 CPU architecture says the company will be doubling down on the core count, literally, to 128 cores in its next-gen Zen 4 based EPYC server lineup.

Sayan Sen · Jun 14, 2021 · Hot! with 5 comments

Gigabyte has launched over 40 new server products that use AMD's newly announce EPYC 7003 Series processors. The firm said the CPU excels at high-performance computing a data analytics.

Paul Hill · Mar 15, 2021 with 0 comments

AMD's third-gen EPYC processors, codenamed Milan, will be launched next week on the 15th via a digital event. The event will be streamed on the AMD EPYC events page from 8 a.m. PT or 11 a.m. ET.

Sayan Sen · Mar 8, 2021 with 3 comments

AMD today announced its earnings for Q3 2020, reporting $2.8 billion in revenue, a 45% increase over Q2. Strong Ryzen and EPYC processor sales led to a 148% increase in net income this quarter.

Abhay V · Oct 27, 2020 with 8 comments

The AMD-powered C5a instances offer high performance while consuming 10% less cost compared to its competitors. They come in eight sizes and are generally available starting today.

Ather Fawaz · Jun 5, 2020 with 0 comments

AMD's next-gen Epyc and Instinct will be inside the El Capitan exascale supercomputer. Expected to be the fastest Supercomputer ever, it will be overlooking U.S. nuclear research operations.

Sayan Sen · Mar 4, 2020 · Hot! with 10 comments

AMD has launched two new EPYC processors; the AMD EPYC 7662 and the AMD EPYC 7532. They're available in Dell and Supermicro servers with HPE and Lenovo launching products in the coming months.

Paul Hill · Feb 19, 2020 with 0 comments

Samsung has announced a new SSD and memory designed for AMD's new EPYC 7002 processors. The new PM1733 SSD can store up to 30.72TB, while the new memory has capacities up to 256GB.

Paul Hill · Aug 9, 2019 with 3 comments

The software giant has announced a preview of its Lv2-series Azure virtual machines which support AMD's EPYC processors. Specifically, the one highlighted is the dual-socket EPYC 7551.

Florin Bodnarescu · Dec 5, 2017 · Hot! with 1 comment