HiSilicon V120 are four years behind

A Geekbench 6 result shows what could be the first look at the speed of the Taishan V120, made by Huawei's HiSilicon arm.

Leaves Chipzilla feeling a bit sick

AMD, the chip maker behind the mighty EPYC and Ryzen processors, has revealed its stunning results for the last quarter of 2023, showing that it is leaving its rival Intel far behind.

Same SP5 socket, and around 35 percent smaller core

AMD unveiled plenty of new products during its Data Center and AI Technology Premiere event in San Francisco, including some details about its 5nm EPYC Bergamo processors for cloud native applications. Shipping now, these EPYC CPUs pack 82b transistors, up to 128 Zen 4c cores, and promise both "the greatest vCPU density and the best energy efficiency.

Targeting data centre customers

Intel Sierra Forest, its first semiconductor for data centre customers focused on power efficiency, , would be delivered in the first half of next year.

Swiss cheese 

More than 31 security flaws have been found in AMD's Ryzen and EPYC chips.

Microsoft gets its foot in the door 

After AMD announced its 4th gen EPYC processors, Microsoft has unveiled its two HX-series and HBv4-series -- next-gen Azure VMs.

Exascale and super-floppy

The AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer is now the first officially recognized exascale supercomputer in the world, topping 1.102 ExaFlop/s during a sustained Linpack run.

Probably by the end of the month

AMD’s server boss Dan McNamara said the company should make its EPYC 7003-series processors with 3D V-Cache available in March.

EC2 Hpc6a Instances for HPC Workloads

AMD’s new EPYC chips are behind Amazon’s EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimised High-Performance Computing (HPC) product.

128 cores (256 threads) of processing power to play with

IBM Cloud has released Bare Metal Servers using the newly released third-generation AMD EPYC processors.