In what’s quickly becoming a very busy week for data center and high-performance computing news, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is hosting its annual developers conference over in Santa Clara. The annual gathering for the developers and ecosystem members of the industry’s preeminent expansion bus offers plenty of technical sessions for hardware devs, but […]
AMD this morning is hosting their first data center and server-focused event in quite some time. Dubbed the “AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere,” we’re expecting a sizable number of announcements from AMD around their server and AI product portfolio. Highlighting this should be fresh news on AMD’s forthcoming MI300 accelerator, the […]
Microsoft on Sunday announced plans to bring select PC Game Pass games to NVIDIA’s GeForce Now cloud streaming service later in 2023. The move will allow gamers to enjoy Microsoft’s curated collection of PC games on high-end hardware in the cloud without purchasing either the games or a high-end gaming device (PC, Xbox), all for […]
Western Digital is somewhat behind its rival Seagate in adopting heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which promises radical improvements to areal density and HDD capacities. Still, the company expects hard drives that use this recording method to enter mass production in the next 1.5 years. This technology will open doors for nearline drives offering 40 TB […]
TSMC on Friday formally opened its Advanced Backend Fab 6 facility, which it will be using to expand the company’s capacity for building high-end, multi-chiplet products. The facility is said to be the first all-in-one automated fab offering 3DFabric integration of front-end to back-end process and testing services. TSMC’s Advanced Backend Fab 6 can process about one million 300-mm […]