Tag: AMD

March 31, 2023

AMD CIO Hasmukh Ranjan sits at the cloud’s crossroads. As a chipmaker, AMD is a vital supplier for the public cloud’s compute engine, and among Ranjan’s key remits is to support the engineering of semiconductors that power the cloud. But […]

May 25, 2022

Google Cloud a collaboration with AMD that will see it release Confidential Computing for its latest EN2D and C2D Virtual Machines (VMs). The first product in Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing portfolio is Confidential VM(opens in new tab), a type of […]

May 16, 2022

A few disruptive players in the financial services scene came out to a gathering held last Thursday at Google’s offices in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. It was all part of an event organized by C2C Global, a […]

January 12, 2022

Amazon Web Services has introduced new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances designed for HPC workloads, powered by AMD’s third generation EPYC processors. The cloud vendor said the instances codenamed ‘Hpc6a’ offer up to 65 percent better price-performance than similar compute-optimized, […]

November 29, 2021

Tencent Cloud, a subsidiary of China’s most valuable public company, is about to start selling servers. The cloud vendor is looking to commercialize the StarLake hardware, developed internally in partnership with AMD and based on second generation EPYC processors. The […]

June 17, 2021

Google this morning announced the launch of Tau, a new family of virtual machines built on AMD’s third-gen EPYC processor. According to the company, the new x86-compatible system offers a 42% price-performance boost over standard VMs. Google notably first started […]

June 3, 2021

In its latest move to distinguish itself in a field that tightened up years ago, Oracle Cloud last week formally launched its first series of VM-based and bare-metal compute instances based on Arm processors — specifically, the 80-core Ampere Altra. […]

October 25, 2018

Intel’s third quarter results were better-than-expected as its data center group delivered record revenue that was up 26 percent from a year ago. The chip giant reported net income of $6.4 billion, or $1.38 a share, on revenue of $19.2 […]