In the wake of Intel’s declining revenue reported last week, AMD offered a glimmer of hope for the semiconductor industry, with a higher-than-expected earnings report for the fourth quarter. But even AMD sounded a cautionary note in an otherwise positive earnings report. While revenue from AMD’s data center business jumped 42%, to $1.7 billion in […]
For the fourth consecutive quarter, Intel’s revenue spiraled down as sagging PC sales, mounting competitive pressures and tightening IT budgets continue to weigh on the company’s financial performance. Intel’s fourth-quarter revenue plummeted 32%, to $14.04 billion. The company reported a $664 million net loss, compared with a profit of $4.62 billion in the year-ago quarter. […]
By What is data center infrastructure efficiency? Data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) is a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center. DCiE was developed by members of The Green Grid, an industry group focused on data center energy efficiency. How to calculate DCiE DCiE, which is expressed as a percentage, is […]
This story was updated on Jan. 18, 2023. Following up on last fall’s AMD-based series of PowerEdge servers, Dell has debuted a slew of Intel-based PowerEdge systems targeting data centers, public cloud and edge environments customized to run data-intensive applications, including AI inferencing. The latest systems, like last year’s, feature the company’s Smart Flow design, […]
Competitors Nvidia and Intel have partnered to deliver a server that will house both Nvidia’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable processors. The new generation of systems are specifically designed for “energy-efficient AI,” according to Nvidia officials. The combination of Intel’s CPUs, working in tandem with Nvidia’s Tensor Core GPUs, delivers higher […]