Tag: Accelerator Chips
For the week ending Aug. 23, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AMD, ePlus, Grafana Labs, Amazon and Novva Data Centers. The Week Ending Aug. 23 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is chipmaker AMD for a strategic acquisition that will provide a boost…
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Intel’s partner-centric Sales and Marketing Group plans to cut jobs and ‘simplify programs’ as part of a directive to slash costs by more than 35 percent by the end of the year, CRN has learned. The chipmaker says it remains ‘deeply committed to the channel.’ Intel’s partner-centric Sales and Marketing Group (SMG) plans to cut…
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“Combining our high-performance Instinct AI accelerator, EPYC CPU, and networking product portfolios with ZT Systems’ industry-leading data center systems expertise will enable AMD to deliver end-to-end data center AI infrastructure at scale with our ecosystem of OEM and ODM partners,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su. Chipmaker superstar AMD is acquiring server supplier and cloud computing…
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‘There is a certain amount of cloud repatriation that is happening, and that’s happening purely from a cost perspective,’ Cognizant’s Naveen Sharma tells CRN in an interview. Naveen Sharma compares the classic public cloud vendor business model to buying wine. The seller loves for a customer to try a glass, and then maybe drink another,…
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When tech companies look for ways to optimize operations, respond to changing market conditions, re-adjust priorities, or even shut down their operation, the impact on employee livelihood can be big. CRN looks at 10 of the most significant tech layoffs that have made their mark so far in 2024. IT Sector Layoffs Still Happening In…
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For the 39th year, solution providers scored vendors across 27 technology categories based on their performance in product innovation, support, partnership, and managed and cloud services. Here’s a roundup of the companies with the highest overall scores. Making The Grade For the 39th year, CRN offered solution providers in North America the opportunity to grade…
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At a fireside chat at SIGGRAPH 2024 in Denver last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about how AI will impact jobs, why Nvidia’s success happened against major odds, and why he believes GPUs and generative AI will reduce energy consumption on the Internet. Jensen Huang has led Nvidia to become one of the world’s…
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While HGX server platforms with Nvidia’s B100 and B200 are ‘effectively being canceled outside of some initial lower volumes,’ the chip designer is making its upcoming flagship GB200 Superchip a priority while introducing a new GPU to help satisfy demand, a research firm says. Nvidia is reportedly delaying the release of its next-generation Blackwell GPUs…
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The semiconductor giant’s stock sank nearly 30 percent on Friday, the day after announcing a 15 percent workforce cut and other cost-saving measures, including the suspension of dividends. Shares of semiconductor giant Intel Friday plummeted nearly 30 percent a day after the company unveiled major moves to cut costs, including a massive layoff of roughly…
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AWS capabilities around “operational performance and security … and a deeper partner ecosystem” remain differentiators in the cloud race, Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy said. Amazon Web Services partners, and Amazon itself, are seeing increased work around preparing customer data for artificial intelligence – which will also drive growth in the vendor’s cloud business, though AI…
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