Cracks in the Firmament
Arm CPUs are Eating the World – Twitter is moving to AWS and using Arm-based CPUs, a major milestone in the advance of Arm into the data center and really bad news for Intel.
Category Archives: The Cloud
Duct Tape and Data Centers
Duct Tape and 5G – Could Huawei use old, unencumbered technology to build its own data centers? It is possible, but highly impractical.
Do Nvidia’s competitors want it to fail with Arm?
Do Nvidia’s competitors want it to buy Arm? Chip companies are worried that Nvidia will be successful with Arm, but they are much more worried that Nvidia fails putting an immense burden on an industry that depends on Arm.
Edge gaming components
Edge gaming components – it takes a village to build an edge gaming ecosystem – the platform owners need access to gaming titles, an audience, the ability to support massive networking infrastructure and a host of software tools.
Hardware for the Edge
Edge Computing could be a sizable market for some companies. However, it does not need fancy new technologies or hardware so much as it needs solutions tailored to specific use cases and industries.
Eye of the Beholder: Nvidia to acquire Cumulus
Chip companies cannot build software products, but they can build software enablers, and through those differentiate their chips.
Fox in the Hen House – Intel and the Telcom Standards
The Core Network is a deeply esoteric side of the 5G standard, but there are big changes coming there. Intel’s moves in the field could pressure Qualcomm’s role in the standards process.
Gaming – Networking becomes a competitive advantage
We attended the Game Developers (GDC) conference this week. The Google Stadia announcement, in particular, really resonated with us, and we detail the importance of that below. For anyone who […]
Amazon enters the ARM Server fray
Last week Amazon announced that they have built their own server-grade CPU. We have not touched on this product here for some very specific reasons, but this is big news, […]
Trouble for Intel in the Data Center?
Last week we published a piece arguing the not-so-outrageous case for Intel to get acquired by private equity as a forcing function for the drastic cultural change it needs to […]
