The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs
The Next Platform, Thursday, January 30th, 2025
It is often said that companies - particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets - do not buy products, they buy roadmaps.
No one wants to go to the trouble of optimizing software for something that turns out to be a one-off product, forcing them to port code and tune it for another device.
It happens.
And thus, having future product roadmaps is as important for chip makers trying to get people to buy their compute engines as a demonstrated ability to have had a roadmap in the past and to have steered the products to market on it without going off the road.
This being the beginning of the year, and datacenter compute engines being near and dear to our hearts, we took some time and put together a master set of roadmaps for CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators that stretches from 2023 through 2027 inclusive. Today, we are going to look at the mainstream CPUs that are in the market today and that are coming down the pike. We will look at GPUs and custom AI accelerators separately.