Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire
The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition
Systems16 Oct 2024 | 38
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Uncle Sam reportedly considers capping AI chip shipments to Middle East
Meanwhile, ASML shares plunge as China export curbs hit forecast
Public Sector16 Oct 2024 | 5
Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul
Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 23
AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips
House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 16
Samsung's HBM3E has been a disaster, but there's a path back
Comment 274% profit increase belies missed deadlines, botched launches, and scrambling leadership
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 1
Britain opens floodgates to US datacenter investment
Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway?
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 20
AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright
So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels
Systems14 Oct 2024 | 23
AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut
Just not on the same chip, of course
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 18
AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025
Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 5
Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors
New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 12
US DoJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse
Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival
Legal09 Oct 2024 | 5
Cognizant discriminated against non-Indian workers in H-1B visa case, US jury finds
IT service giant denies claims, will appeal against verdict
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 8
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design
Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2
MediaTek enters the 4th Dimensity with 3nm octa-core 9400 smartphone brains
Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 3
TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators
Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4
Systems08 Oct 2024 |
Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance
Profit doesn't pop despite AI-inspired memory boom, leading to executive mea culpa
Systems08 Oct 2024 | 8
Inflection AI Enterprise offering ditches Nvidia GPUs for Intel's Gaudi 3
Struggling chipmaker scores another win
Systems07 Oct 2024 | 2
Samsung chairman debunks foundry, chip biz spinoff rumors
But not hard to believe of business units with over $2 billion in operating losses in 2023
Systems07 Oct 2024 |
Quantum computing dreamers face stock market reality check
D-Wave and Rigetti dip below $1 as AI steals the spotlight
Systems07 Oct 2024 | 12
You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs
Opinion They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle
Systems07 Oct 2024 | 43
Global semiconductor sales up 20.6% to record $53.1B as trade wars rage on
Chip boom continues as demand surges, but challenges remain
Systems07 Oct 2024 | 1
TSMC and Amkor link up to bring advanced packaging stateside
Arizona looks like the place to be for US semiconductor manufacturing
Systems04 Oct 2024 | 7
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids
California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5
Gadget designers get chunky option as USB 20 Gbps controller arrives
Set to bring mighty performance in a small BGA package
Systems02 Oct 2024 | 6
Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it
Comment Chipzilla's AIB market share a rounding error compared to Nvidia, AMD
Systems02 Oct 2024 | 69
TSMC preps facilities as Taiwan braces for powerful Super Typhoon Krathon
Plants in Tainan and Kaohsiung face heavy rainfall
Systems01 Oct 2024 | 3
UK Ministry of Defence gets into chipmaking game, buys gallium arsenide fab
State-owned semiconductor production: What is it planning to make there? It's classified
Systems30 Sep 2024 | 23
India scores its first fab, and it looks like it was at Japan's expense
PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be – all hype aside – an actual 'key milestone'
Systems30 Sep 2024 | 1
Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip
It won't smash any benchmarks, but it will go where most others can't
Systems29 Sep 2024 | 27
Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel
Comment Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology?
Systems27 Sep 2024 | 21
Oracle owns nearly a third of Arm chip house Ampere, could take control in 2027
Appears to be prioritizing GPUs, not manycore CPUs
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 5
Patch now: Critical Nvidia bug allows container escape, complete host takeover
33% of cloud environments using the toolkit impacted, we're told
Patches26 Sep 2024 | 18
Short sellers rejoice on report of Supermicro DoJ probe
Comment Alleged inquiry comes amid claims server maker cooked its books
Systems26 Sep 2024 |
Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK
Construction slated to begin next year at site of failed BritishVolt plant
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 17
Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors
Root cause identified, but it's taken the better part of a year
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 25
Memory-maker Micron predicts new wave of server consolidation
AI boosted revenue last year, demand for more RAM in devices to help in 2025
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 1
India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech
And hints at revised rules to come later this year
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 7
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters
With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes
Systems25 Sep 2024 | 26
US may exempt latest chip fabs from eco red-tape, but power is still a trip
Comment AC/DC: America's grid might need to brace itself
Systems25 Sep 2024 | 37
With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD
And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it
Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21
Warm embrace of CHIPS Act cash envelopes Polar Semiconductor
Minnow of among government funded whales to double production capacity
Systems24 Sep 2024 | 1
TSMC, Samsung reportedly eye UAE's silicon fields for fab expansion
There’s no shortage of sand, but chip plants are thirsty for something even more precious: Water
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 6
Intel: Trouble draws private investors like vultures to a wounded giant
Comment Potential $5B cash injection from Apollo as Qualcomm sniffs around
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 5
Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it's on track for better liquid cooling with 'railway sleeper' design
Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 3
Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery
Comment Gelsinger sold the world on his foundry vision. Walking away won't be easy
Systems22 Sep 2024 | 29
There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is
Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?
Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22
Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters
Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 7
NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks
SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE
Off-Prem19 Sep 2024 | 4
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2
AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals
Comment CEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything... as Intel struggles
Systems12 Sep 2024 | 12
Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up
AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs
Systems12 Sep 2024 | 8
Dell says biz transformation continues. Translation: More layoffs
This follows the tech giant's August plan to cut 12,500 jobs
Systems11 Sep 2024 | 4
Oracle boasts zettascale 'AI supercomputer,' just don’t ask about precision
Comment Cluster of 131,072 Blackwell GPUs up for grabs starting H1 2025
Systems11 Sep 2024 | 8
HPE wants investors to buy shares to help finance $14B Juniper Networks acquisition
27 million Series C Preferred Stock due out on Friday 13
Systems11 Sep 2024 | 8
Ex Samsung execs reportedly arrested for alleged IP theft in China chip caper
Duo accused of stealing $3.2B of 20nm tech and secrets
Legal10 Sep 2024 |
SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut
AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second
Systems10 Sep 2024 | 4
Mainframes aren't dead, they're just learning AI tricks
Kyndryl survey suggests there's life in big iron yet
Systems10 Sep 2024 | 13
We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too
Gartner thinks generative AI is right for only five percent of workloads
AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 65
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing
Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security
Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
In profitability push Mobileye dumps LiDAR, slashes workforce
But then again is LiDAR even on the radar in 2024?
Systems09 Sep 2024 | 13
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