Items tagged with data center
Kioxia is demonstrating some prototype storage solutions built around its 8th generation BiCS Flash memory featuring CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, which the company is billing as a breakthrough architecture for data center SSDs. Called the CD9P series, these PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage solutions promise to...
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NVIDIA continues to reap the benefits of skyrocketing demand for its data center solutions, and it also achieved record first quarter revenue from its gaming division. Combined with mostly steady performance from its other segments, the AI chip juggernaut reported $44.1 billion in revenue for its first quarter of...
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Having trouble checking your feed on the social media platform X this morning? You are not alone. X, formerly known as Twitter, is suffering a major outage that arose from an incident on Thursday and is affecting access to the site today, May 24, 2025. We tried to access the site this morning and were not able to. The root cause is a reportedly
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We're starting to sound like a broken record, but NVIDIA crushed yet another quarter with its Q4 revenue scaling to $39.3 billion, which is a 12% sequential gain and a massive 78% spike from the same quarter a year ago. Even more impressive, the record quarter capped off a monster year that saw NVIDIA post a greater...
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Investors are fickle bunch and if you need proof of this, just look at AMD's share price this morning. It's down by more than 10% in early hours trading, despite AMD posting a monster quarter (another one) with a record $7.7 billion in revenue, along with massive gains in the data center—up 69% year-over-year for the...
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When PC gaming saw a resurgence, NVIDIA made bank. Then when cryptocurrency mining on GPUs became a popular thing, NVIDIA made more bank. And now? NVIDIA is riding the next wave in tech, which is artificial intelligence, to its biggest earnings ever at $35.08 billion in revenue for yet another record quarter bolstered...
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You might not know it by looking at AMD's stock price this morning (more on that later), but the company is coming off its biggest-performing quarter, with third-quarter revenue tallying $6.8 billion. That's an 18% increase year-over-year and a 17% jump sequentially. This led to a monster gain in net income (profit)...
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Kioxia is launching another round of zippy solid state drives for the data center that leverage the PCI Express 5.0 bus, and namely the XD8 series. While you won't find these being offered for consumer desktops or laptops—the come in the Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF)—they offer impressive...
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With the arms race for machine learning and AI heating up, AMD continues to ramp up its efforts for data centers. While consumer GPUs remain an important but minimized sector, pro-level products are taking center stage at AMD. The Radeon Pro V710 is available now as a private preview for Microsoft Azure, joining the...
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NVIDIA has served up yet another record quarter, as revealed in its latest earnings release that reflects $30 million in revenue for the three-month period ended July 28, 2024. That's up 15% sequentially and 122% compared to a year ago. Not unexpectedly, it was more record performance in NVIDIA's Data Center division...
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In case you haven't been paying attention, artificial intelligence (AI) is a red hot field, which extends into the lucrative data center. Up to this point, NVIDIA has dominated the category with strategic investments in GPU architectures and infrastructure. It's not alone, however, and AMD is making a bold bid to beef...
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The AI chip boom is benefiting the bottom line of big tech firms, and further proof of that comes by way of AMD's latest earnings report. For the second quarter of 2024, AMD generated over $5.8 billion in revenue, which is a gain of 7% sequentially and 9% year-over-year, and increased its net income to $265 million...
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Storage solutions that tap into the PCI Express 5.0 bus are relatively few and far between (compared to PCIe 4.0 and 3.0 drives), but are starting to ramp up. The newest entry into the high-speed Gen 5 category comes from Micron with the introduction of its 9550 SSD series, and it takes aim squarely at data centers in...
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A new study suggests that putting data centers in space would have definite advantages compared to Earth-bound ones, with combating climate change being at the top of the list. The study is part of the ASCEND project aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of a space-based data center while demonstrating the EU green...
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Only the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a division of the Department of the Treasury, is allowed to print money in the United States. Coming in a close second, however, NVIDIA prints designs primarily for GPU hardware, which might as well be a license to print money in the burgeoning era of artificial intelligence...
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As the era of AI computing begins to unfold in earnest, AMD was able to achieve record sales in its data center business, which grew a whopping 80% year-over-year to $2.34 billion in the first quarter of 2024 (and a more modest 2% sequentially). The big uptick in data center dollars helped AMD weather declining sales...
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It wasn’t that long ago when NVIDIA found lightning in a bottle with the cryptocurrency boom, which saw demand for its GPUs skyrocket beyond gaming and into a red hot mining market. Then came the crypto crash and, along with it, concerns about how NVIDIA would bounce back amid sagging GPU sales. NVIDIA found its...
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All things considered, AMD ended its fiscal year on a high note with its fourth quarter (of 2023) revenue coming in at $6.2 billion, for a quarterly profit of $667 million. For the full year, AMD reported revenue of $22.7 billion, with net income tallying $854 million. The figures are largely the result of impressive...
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CES 2024 is an exciting time for a plethora of new product announcements, and expected to be chief among them this year are new graphics card options. While gamers are patiently awaiting the details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX Super GPUs, there is some commotion in the data center market as well.
NVIDIA has...
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NVIDIA and Hon Hai Technology Group, otherwise known as Foxconn, jointly announced plans develop a new class of data centers and systems designed to "accelerate the AI revolution." It's the latest strategic move by NVIDIA to capitalize on the burgeoning market for AI hardware and applications, where the firm has...
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The data center is the unsung hero of modern computing, in that so many tasks rely on them (cloud gaming, online shopping, and so forth) but they often take a back seat to local devices. Back seat or not, it's important to keep data centers fed with high-tech hardware, and that's what Kioxia is delivering with its...
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Solidigm SSD D5-P5336: $<0.08 - $0.10 per GB (Estimated) The new Solidigm SSD D5-P5336 targets read-heavy workloads and features the company's latest QLC NAND flash memory to achieve massive storage capacities up to 61.44TB. Massive Capacities Targeting Lower Price Points (per GB) Mulitple Form Factors...
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