Graphics processing units have become much more prominent in recent years because of their ability to perform the complex calculations on large data sets that underpin modern artificial intelligence ...

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...

In today’s increasingly AI-assisted, software-defined IT world, it’s understandable how federal enterprise leaders might overlook some of the revolutionary developments reshaping the hardware ...

Data storage and data processing have always been separate functions, but what if they could be unified and achieve much better performance? That’s the promise of computational storage. Although media ...

The data processing unit, or DPU, is a new class of programmable processor that enables servers to more efficiently move data, freeing up valuable CPU cycles and allowing services to be statefully ...

Qualcomm said it is planning to launch a custom central processing unit for the data center that can connect to Nvidia's GPUs and software. A link to Nvidia's infrastructure is key for any player ...

Google Axion processors are the first custom Arm-based CPUs designed for the rapidly developing data centre market. Axion ...

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...

There is no single processor capable of executing everything efficiently, meaning that multiple processors are required. Maximum efficiency is gained by minimizing the movement of data. Architects ...