Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 89
TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas It'll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO Systems18 Apr 2024 | 8
Micron scores $6.1B CHIPS Act cash for New York and Idaho fabs Memorymaker to park mega plant in Syracuse, says senator Systems18 Apr 2024 |
HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Systems18 Apr 2024 |
Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 1
ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Systems17 Apr 2024 | 10
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line Systems17 Apr 2024 | 5
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5
Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work Systems16 Apr 2024 | 3
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Systems15 Apr 2024 | 8
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 5
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit Export restrictions and sanctions working well, we see Systems11 Apr 2024 | 26
Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events Kettle We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to Systems11 Apr 2024 | 2
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial Systems11 Apr 2024 | 15
Hailo's latest AI chip shows up integrated NPUs and sips power like fine wine All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot Systems10 Apr 2024 | 6
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers Updated Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting
Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2.9 gives a taste of what's to come
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95 No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030 Robot overlords demand more energy Systems09 Apr 2024 | 20
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100 Intel Vision Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit Systems09 Apr 2024 |
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
TSMC scores $11.6B funding infusion for Arizona fabs, now plans for third plant Nevermind the fact that the first two plants are facing delays and costs are rising – build, build build! Systems08 Apr 2024 | 7
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO interview Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry Systems08 Apr 2024 | 42
Alibaba Cloud slashes prices outside China Domestic customers saw their fees cut last January Systems08 Apr 2024 |
AMD to open source Micro Engine Scheduler firmware for Radeon GPUs And it was all thanks to peer pressure Systems05 Apr 2024 | 12
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027 Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
Intel's foundry business bled $7B in 2023 with more to come CEO Gelsinger promises sunny days ahead as he confirms reorg Systems03 Apr 2024 | 18
Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs We're never going to give you up... Systems01 Apr 2024 | 3
TSMC boss says one-trillion transistor GPU is possible by early 2030s Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward Systems01 Apr 2024 | 15
Overclocking muddies waters for Nvidia's redesigned RTX 4090 and US sanctions Cut-down chips get a big boost Systems29 Mar 2024 | 4
Pressuring allies not to fulfill chip kit service contracts with China now official US policy Xi Jinping warns 'no force' can stop country's science and tech progress Systems28 Mar 2024 | 14
Intel's green dream is chips without any dips in Mother Nature's health Sustainability Summit pushes industry partners to reduce their environmental impact, including harmful chemicals Systems28 Mar 2024 | 7
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs Video Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Systems27 Mar 2024 | 7
TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology Systems27 Mar 2024 | 3
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon Systems27 Mar 2024 | 4
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support Systems27 Mar 2024 | 16
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs Public Sector27 Mar 2024 | 6
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws Systems26 Mar 2024 | 3
As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love... Systems25 Mar 2024 | 54
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works' Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future Comment LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Systems25 Mar 2024 | 7
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware Software25 Mar 2024 | 9
Gelsinger woos Musk as Intel seeks to drum up Foundry Services business It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days Systems25 Mar 2024 | 2
SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
One rack. 120kW of compute. Taking a closer look at Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 beast GTC 1.44 exaFLOPs of FP4, 13.5 TB of HBM3e, 2 miles of NVLink cables, in one liquid cooled unit Systems21 Mar 2024 | 22
Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 platform Boosted on-device generative AI's not just for the flagship smartphone kids Systems21 Mar 2024 | 4
US may sanction those rumored to be in covert Huawei chip network Crouching entity list candidate, hidden semiconductor ... or that's the idea, anyway Systems20 Mar 2024 | 3
Intel scores $8.5B in government cheddar to supercharge fab builds Department of Commerce says it's the largest such investment in US semiconductor manufacturing Systems20 Mar 2024 | 7
Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei’s CentOS spinout Systems20 Mar 2024 | 8
Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots? GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU Systems19 Mar 2024 | 14
Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays Updated You know where plants are much cheaper to construct? Asia Systems19 Mar 2024 | 7
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast Systems18 Mar 2024 | 17
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven Systems18 Mar 2024 | 9
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about Systems17 Mar 2024 | 83
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server On Call Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship Systems15 Mar 2024 | 123
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs Public Sector15 Mar 2024 | 41
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future Analysis What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex Systems13 Mar 2024 | 6
Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day... Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs Systems12 Mar 2024 | 24
Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom Systems12 Mar 2024 |
Singapore startup SiliconBox to open packaging fab in Northern Italy Shared cultural values sealed the deal and we're struggling to figure out what they are Systems12 Mar 2024 | 2
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? Systems07 Mar 2024 | 3
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions Systems07 Mar 2024 | 56
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Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country Updated Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries Systems06 Mar 2024 | 53
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is Don't hold your breath Systems05 Mar 2024 | 31
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam At least the US Army is thinking about the frogs in those 226 acres of wetland Systems04 Mar 2024 | 8
French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC €15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement Systems04 Mar 2024 | 7
Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers Updated Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 23
India approves its first full wafer fab – a 28nm affair from Tata and Powerchip Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details Systems01 Mar 2024 |
Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm Systems29 Feb 2024 | 18
Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry Systems29 Feb 2024 | 32
Chip fab supplier Applied Materials gets subpoenaed over China sales Updated Comes after US probe into biz's dealings with SMIC Systems28 Feb 2024 | 1
Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go Systems28 Feb 2024 | 10
City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71
Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet Systems27 Feb 2024 | 10
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With over 600 CHIPS fund applicants seeking over $70B, don't get your hopes up Commerce secretary warns priority will go to shovel-ready projects Systems26 Feb 2024 | 4
Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting Systems26 Feb 2024 | 1
Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts? Systems26 Feb 2024 | 2
More AI for cell networks as Intel rolls out vRAN platform MWC Plus fresh edge compute system that may be able to run on existing infra Systems26 Feb 2024 |
India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon extradited Systems26 Feb 2024 | 3
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks On Call Sometimes the best form of revenge is doing nothing – very politely Systems23 Feb 2024 | 256
Gelsinger splits Intel in two to advance foundry vision FDC Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry Systems22 Feb 2024 | 13
Nvidia revenue grows 265 percent with more to come as new GPUs and Ethernet near Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated' Systems22 Feb 2024 | 3
Arm targets AI performance with latest Neoverse Compute Subsystems More and more obvious what a key market ML is for the chip designer Systems21 Feb 2024 | 2