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Arm Arms Microsoft Azure VMs Preview Featuring Ampere Altra Processors

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Arm is showcasing Arm Neoverse ecosystem momentum through Microsoft’s preview of VMs on its Azure cloud platform powered by Arm-based Ampere Altra server CPUs. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the preview of VMs on Microsoft Azure using Arm-based Ampere Altra processors boosts Arm’s sales and marketing momentum as well as the influence of the Arm Neoverse ecosystem after the dissolution of the $40 billion NVIDIA acquisition and before parent company Softbank’s plan to take the company public.

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AMD’s $1.9B Acquisition of Pensando Aims to Help AMD Take Even More Workloads off CPUs for Increased Performance for Customers

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Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss explores AMD’s latest planned acquisition – the $1.9 billion purchase of Pensando Systems – and analyzes how the addition of the programmable packet processor and software specialist will also likely bolster AMD’s recent acquisition of FPGA chip maker Xilinx.

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NVIDIA GTC 2022 Keynote Unveilings: New Hopper GPU Architecture Replacing Ampere, New H100 Hopper-Based GPUs Debut and Grace CPU Superchips Make a Big Splash

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The News: This week at the Spring GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2022, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared announcements about the company’s latest Hopper GPU accelerated computing architecture and its new NVIDIA H100 GPUs for AI. Check out all the Press Releases from NVIDIA’s Spring GTC 2022 in NVIDIA’s newsroom. NVIDIA GTC 2022 Keynote Unveilings: New Hopper GPU Architecture Replacing Ampere, …