Tagged cpu
6 entries
2026-10-07
Brief · 7 October 2026NVIDIA posted a benchmark for its new Vera CPU, showing a peak memory bandwidth of 1.2 TB/s, which it says puts the chip on par with top‑tier AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon processors for HPC workloads.
2026-09-29
Brief · 29 September 2026NVIDIA posted early benchmark results for its new Vera server, revealing that Spatial Multithreading doubles the logical thread count to 352 on the dual‑socket Vera CPU Superchip and promises higher AI workload throughput.
2026-09-26
Brief · 26 September 2026Anthropic signed a seven‑year cloud agreement with Akamai, committing $11.6 billion to CPU‑focused infrastructure, marking the largest single AI‑lab spend on a third‑party provider in months.
2026-09-08
Brief · 8 September 2026Phoronix reported a mysterious new x86 processor that adds Intel‑style APX extensions and supports up to 32 AMX tiles, a claim that would outpace Intel's current matrix‑extension lineup. https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-CPU-With-APX-x86S
2026-08-21
Brief · 21 August 2026Intel unveiled the Granite Rapids‑WS Xeon 678X, a 48‑core, 96‑thread, 300 W CPU, and Phoronix reported measurable hyper‑threading gains in workstation benchmarks today.
2026-06-12
Brief · 12 June 2026NVIDIA rolled out a one‑click multi‑tenant security layer for its Quantum InfiniBand adapters, adding per‑tenant encryption and isolation without manual configuration.