Astera Labs Scorpio 320-Lane PCIe Switch Update
… A CPU platform only has so many PCIe lanes. GPUs, NICs, NVMe SSDs, DPUs, and other accelerators all want connectivity. …
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PCI-SIG PCIe 8.0 Specification Draft 0.5 Released
… PCIe 8.0 is not a near-term platform feature, but the 2028 target tells silicon, connector, retimer vendors, and platform teams where future versions of the interconnect standard are headed. …
Minisforum’s Upcoming MS-03 SFF PC Brings More of a Good Thing
… Though not Thunderbolt-certified, the two USB-C ports are wired to the Thunderbolt 4 controllers on Panther Lake and provide full 40Gbps USB4 connectivity. …
Dell Showcases Upcoming EPYC Venice PowerEdge Systems, Adds New 5.8PB PowerStore Elite
… Besides the switch to E3 drives, Dell’s updates see the platform make a two generation jump in terms of I/O, moving from PCIe Gen3 connectivity to PCIe Gen5 connectivity for the SSDs and other peripherals. …
Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 Data Center Announcements CPUs, AI Accelerators, and More
… Qualcomm needs to have solid connectivity as well, so that will be important in future generations of custom silicon. Now the company is getting into hyperscaler connectivity. …
New Workstation Kingpins Intel Xeon W-3400 Xeon W-2400 and W790 Launch
… We have many readers that do not need an enormous amount of compute, but instead need more memory capacity and bandwith plus PCIe connectivity than the lower-end platforms offer. …
HPE Discover 2026 Keynote Coverage
… This is a 1.6Tbps in 1U full duplex 400G connectivity, and AIOps management. …
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving the Industry forward with Linux 7.0 and More
… Database and Application Server Updates Ubuntu 26.04 LTS brings major updates to database servers and application runtimes: PostgreSQL 18 – New I/O subsystem with up to 3x performance improvements for storage reads, improved index utilization, virtual generated columns, uuidv7 function for better i… …
Installing Out-of-the-Box Ubuntu LTS on Xsight Labs E1 64-Core Arm 800G DPU
… At STH, we re-tooled our benchmark platforms around 26.04, so having hardware that can run on Ubuntu 26.04 is a key need we have. …