Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/installing-out-of-the-box-ubuntu-lts-on-xsight-labs-e1-64-core-arm-800g-dpu/
We take the Xsight Labs E1 64-core Arm Neoverse N2 DPU with 800Gbps of networking and PCIe Gen5 and install vanilla Ubuntu on it
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-8005-is-out-with-up-to-84-zen-5-cores-in-a-225w-tdp/
AMD is out with the SKUs and new details on the AMD EPYC 8005 series, which is a massive shift in the line’s capabilities
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/the-case-for-compilers-a-look-at-spec-cpu-2026-on-llvm-22/
Looking at the role of compilers in SPEC CPU 2026 performance, we have tested the benchmark suite on LLVM 22. The newest compiler provides a meaningful improvement to benchmark scores for multiple architectures
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/spec-consortium-releases-spec-cpu-2026-benchmark-suite-the-next-decade-of-cpu-benchmarking/
After nearly a decade, SPEC has released a new version of its industry-defining CPU benchmark, SPEC CPU 2026. We take a look at what’s new, as well as the new benchmark’s performance on a modern AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA CPU trio
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/meta-buys-tens-of-millions-of-aws-graviton-arm-cores-in-a-cpu-land-grab/
Meta is buying “tens of millions” of AWS Graviton CPU cores in a big move to bolster its agentic AI compute portfolio
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/arm-agi-cpu-launched-establishing-arm-as-a-silicon-provider/
At its Arm Everywhere event today, Arm announced its new Arm AGI CPU designed to power agentic AI workflows in a major shift for the company
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Post Syndicated from Eric Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-6-soc-family-overview-this-is-granite-rapids-d/
The Intel Xeon 6 SoC family, codenamed Granite Rapids-D, adds more acceleration and faster networking to the popular series
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/nvidias-vera-cpu-in-detail-high-perf-chip-takes-aim-at-broader-ai-server-market/
While NVIDIA is best known as a GPU company for obvious reasons, the company has now spent almost half of its existence trying to branch into the CPU market as well. From early forays into processor designs with Denver – and ambitions of x86 processors unrealized – through multiple generations of Tegra SoCs, and now […]
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/amd-intros-single-socket-epyc-8005-sorano-cpus-for-telco-and-edge/
Ahead of MWC, AMD is introducing its EPYC 8005 “Sorano” series of processors. Aimed at the telco and edge markets, these efficiency-focused chips have up to 84 Zen 5 CPU cores
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Post Syndicated from John Lee original https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-ampere-ampereone-m-a192-32m-192-core-12-channel-ddr5-arm-cpu/
This is the Ampere AmpereOne M chip, a 192-core Arm-based CPU with 12-channels of DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 connectivity
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/intel-announces-xeon-600-series-granite-rapids-for-workstations/
Intel this afternoon is taking the wraps off of the Xeon 600 series, the company’s upcoming workstation platform. Based on Intel’s Granite Ridge CPUs, the release of the Xeon 600 series will see Intel’s latest server technology finally cascade down into workstation parts, replacing the current Xeon W-2500/W-3500 (Sapphire/Emerald Rapids) platforms that have been the […]
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/sifive-to-adopt-nvlink-fusion-for-future-data-center-risc-v-cpu-designs/
For a while now, NVIDIA has been working to turn its NVLink high speed interconnect technology into more than just a bus used by NVIDIA, aiming to fashion an entire ecosystem around it. Those efforts kicked into high gear last year with the announcement of NVLInk Fusion, a program to allow third parties to connect […]
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/amds-epyc-venice-instinct-mi455x-helios-hardware-on-display-for-first-time-at-ces-2026/
Alongside AMD’s numerous client-focused hardware announcements during their CES 2026 keynote, the company also devoted a bit of attention to their data center/server products. Though the company is essentially mid-cycle on its major data center products right now – and thus is not launching anything in the immediate timeframe – AMD still opted to use […]
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/this-is-the-xsight-labs-e1-dpu-a-64-core-arm-neoverse-n2-800g-dpu/
We take a look at the Xsight Labs E1 DPU 1U server that exposes the new 64x Arm Neoverse N2 core 800Gbps networking chip and more
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Post Syndicated from Cliff Robinson original https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-r1a3-t40-aav1-with-ampere-ampereone-m-at-sc25/
At SC25, we found the Gigabyte R1A3-T40-AAV1, sporting an Ampere AmpereOne M CPU with 12-channels of DDR5 memory and lots of PCIe Gen5
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Post Syndicated from Cliff Robinson original https://www.servethehome.com/microsoft-azure-cobalt-200-launched-with-132-arm-neoverse-v3-cores/
The Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 is out, using 132 Arm Neoverse V3 cores for a next-generation TSMC 3nm compute option in Azure
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Post Syndicated from Cliff Robinson original https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-shows-off-amd-epyc-venice-and-sp7-supercomputing-node-at-sc25/
HPE showed off its next-generation AMD EPYC “Venice” socket SP7 supercomputing platform at SC25 along with its Slingshot 400 interconnect
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Post Syndicated from Patrick Kennedy original https://www.servethehome.com/intel-cancels-its-mainstream-next-gen-xeon-server-processors/
A major next-generation Intel Xeon platform has been removed from the company’s roadmap. We have the details on the Diamond Rapids shift
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Post Syndicated from Cliff Robinson original https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-embedded-4005-series-launched/
The AMD EPYC Embedded 4005 series was launched with a 16 core 3D V-Cache part that has 7 year availability
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Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-clearwater-forest-with-288-cores-on-intel-18a-at-hot-chips-2025/
At Hot Chips 2025, Intel went into its next-gen 288 core processor constructed on Intel 18A process and using 3D packaging technology
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