Tag: cores

Missed out on the $500,000 Cheyenne supercomputer deal? Supermicro has an Intel server offer that you can’t refuse — eight Gaudi 2 AI accelerators, 76 cores, 1TB of RAM and 100GbE for just $90,000

Cheyenne, a US supercomputer once ranked 20th in the world and with 8,000 Intel Xeon CPUs and 300TB of RAM (plus a few maintenance issues, including water leaks), was recently auctioned off by US General Services Administration (GSA). After a tussle between 27 bidders, Cheyenne went for a respectable $480,085, plus the costs of dismantling […]

China’s CPU rival to Intel and AMD is rapidly catching up on a key metric — but don’t expect it to be competitive with Ryzens and Cores anytime soon

You might not be too familiar with Loongson, but it has been developing computer processors since 2000, and in China the company is widely viewed as the grandfather of domestic CPUs. The launch of Loongson 1 in 2002 was China’s first independently developed general-purpose CPU, using the MIPS III instruction set. in 2020 Loongson transitioned […]