{"id":182918,"date":"2016-10-14T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=182918"},"modified":"2016-10-14T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:53:54","slug":"google-ibm-in-new-open-interface-to-take-on-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/182918-google-ibm-in-new-open-interface-to-take-on-intel.html","title":{"rendered":"Google, IBM in new open interface to take on Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, IBM, and seven other technology companies have joined forces to take\u00a0on Intel with an open specification that increases data centre performance ten-fold, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-technology-consortium-idUSKCN12E0C5\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The new standard is called Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (OpenCAPI), and aims to provide a\u00a0high-bandwidth, low-latency interface design specification.<\/p>\n<p>OpenCAPI is expected to speed up workloads in big data, machine learning, and analytics in\u00a0corporate and cloud data centres.<\/p>\n<p>AMD, Dell EMC, HP, Mellanox Technologies, Micron Technology, Nvidia, and Xilinx are also members of the OpenCAPI consortium,<\/p>\n<p>Intel has decided\u00a0to sit out of the new consortium, and has previously stayed away from open standards technology groups such as CCIX and Gen-Z.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium said it plans to make its\u00a0specification available before the end of the year, with servers and products based on the new standard coming in\u00a0the second half of 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175132-ibms-watson-diagnoses-rare-leukemia-better-than-doctors.html\">IBM\u2019s Watson diagnoses rare leukemia better than doctors<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine technology companies have teamed up in the OpenCAPI consortium to create an open interface design specification to take on Intel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,39306,39308,167,37815,24576,39310,7109,3838,39314,39312],"class_list":["post-182918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-advanced-micro-devices-amd","tag-dell-emc","tag-google","tag-hewlett-packard-enterprise","tag-ibm-international-business-machines","tag-mellanox","tag-micron-technology","tag-nvidia","tag-open-coherent-accelerator-processor-interface-opencapi","tag-xilinx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182956,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182918\/revisions\/182956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}