Baidu and AMD announced today that Baidu is officially rolling out its single socket AMD EPYC platform targeted at AI, big data and cloud. While we do not cover every cloud design win in the industry, this is a big deal. The prevalent architecture for cloud servers has been dual socket Intel Xeon (E5) for years. The fact that one...
Recently AMD briefed us on a number of updates in what it is calling the AMD Radeon Pro Adrenalin update. One of the most interesting for us came at the end of the discussion where AMD highlighted virtualization. Specifically, that the company is putting its KVM host driver on GitHub and open sourcing the effort.
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