Amazon goes EPYC
AMD on its cloud
AMD announced its second generation EPYC processor is powering Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a and are switched on in the AWS US East, AWS US West, AWS Europe and AWS Asia Pacific regions.
But cloud still making money
Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and divided them by their collective shoesize and reached the conclusion that global tech spending will drop eight percent in 2020.
Xilinx reports fiscal Q42020 and FY2020 results
$3.16 billion, data center 22 percent revenue growth
The fiscal year 2020 (April 2019 to April 2020) was a challenging year for anyone trading with China due to the US government pressures on Huawei. Despite all these challenges, Xilinx managed to make $3.16 billion revenue or three percent higher, year over year.
US judge uses JEDI mind hold
Suspends Amazon’s case against Microsoft
A US judge held a case by Amazon challenging the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion contract to Microsoft.
Alibaba wants to invest more in the cloud
Peak in demand following coronavirus
Alibaba said it will invest $28 billion in its cloud infrastructure over three years after a boom in demand for business software as the coronavirus outbreak peaked in China.