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 | 8
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven Systems18 Mar 2024 | 8
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 | 69
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 | 116
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs Public Sector15 Mar 2024 | 41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 | 10
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 | 21
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 | 51
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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
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TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so Who, Me? Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues
Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it Opinion The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching
ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation Infosec in brief Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns
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
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 | 255
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
GlobalFoundries scores $1.5B in Uncle Sam's semiconductor subsidy bonanza Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B Systems20 Feb 2024 | 2
IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch Who knows where they'll get the funds for $1B investment plan, though Systems16 Feb 2024 | 4
India won't become a semiconductor superpower anytime soon, says think tank $10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029 Systems16 Feb 2024 | 3
ASML sees semiconductor upturn ahead, but China export restrictions are a risk World's only EUV photolithography maker finished 2023 with order backlog worth €39B Systems14 Feb 2024 |
Uncle Sam officially opens funding gates for silicon R&D $5B investment part of $53B bet to reboot semiconductor industry Systems12 Feb 2024 | 1
Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared Comment $7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence Systems10 Feb 2024 | 59
Nvidia wants a piece of the custom silicon pie, reportedly forms unit to peddle IP Don't want a GPU? How about some intellectual property or design help? Systems09 Feb 2024 | 1
AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023 Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years Systems09 Feb 2024 | 3
CableMod recalls angled GPU power adapters to prevent fiery surprises Keep your graphics cards safe, people Systems09 Feb 2024 | 11
With $1B to burn on green tech, HSBC seeks Google’s help The clock's ticking on those 2030 net zero climate goals Systems08 Feb 2024 | 7
When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster Management either weren't told about risks or ignored them, report finds Systems08 Feb 2024 | 91
AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board What an Arm-ful of x86, Vega graphics, XDNA AI, and FPGA circuitry Systems07 Feb 2024 | 6
TSMC to build second fab in Japan, backed by local investment Plus: SMIC said to be building new lines to make 5nm process chips designed by Huawei Systems07 Feb 2024 | 1
IBM pitches bite-sized $135k LinuxONE box for smaller biz types Fancy a mainframe that runs Linux? You'll need deep pockets Systems06 Feb 2024 | 27
Faraday plots a 64-core Arm chip with Intel inside The melding of Neoverse cores and x86 giant's latest process tech was bound to happen eventually Systems05 Feb 2024 | 6
Where there's a will, there's a way to get US chips into China Buy 'em, rent 'em, smuggle 'em – export restrictions don't cover illegitimate means Systems05 Feb 2024 | 10
Untangling Meta's plan for its homegrown AI chips, set to actually roll out this year So that's where all the laid-off semiconductor engineers went! AI + ML02 Feb 2024 | 11
Intel delays Ohio fab build, blames semiconductor slowdown US govt isn't exactly in a hurry with the Chips Act money either Systems02 Feb 2024 | 4
Uncle Sam designates more Chinese tech slingers as military collaborators No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses Systems01 Feb 2024 | 14
The latest cold war is already being fought in the supply chain trenches AI and the chips that power it are at the center of the equation Systems30 Jan 2024 | 2
Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close Comment Angstrom age is right around the corner – for state-of-the-art chips, anyway Systems29 Jan 2024 | 19
TSMC finds its green chips are highly sought after... the edible ones Crunchy, tasty, coconut flavoured... and hopefully thicker than a few nanometers Systems27 Jan 2024 | 13
Intel warns of Q1 nosedive... and its shares follow suit Pat's gonna need to sell a lotta AI PCs if he wants to make a profit this quarter Systems26 Jan 2024 | 8
The EU-US Trade and Tech Council sounds fancy but, really, what's the point? Nothing like an informal talking shop dressed up as formal transatlantic cooperation Systems25 Jan 2024 | 4
SK hynix posts surprise profit after AI boosts memory prices This may be the best bad news we've had all year Systems25 Jan 2024 |
ASML orders boom but export restrictions could hamper growth Extremely key kitmaker does predict good times in 2025, though Systems24 Jan 2024 | 12
Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line? You could go all-in on Nvidia for the lower latency. Or tough it out with less exotic kit and tolerate slower training Systems24 Jan 2024 | 6
Taiwan connects its first home-grown quantum computer to the internet Five mighty qubits, delivered before deadline, but they won’t stop imports of alternatives Systems24 Jan 2024 | 5
Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant's ultrapure water Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding Systems22 Jan 2024 | 6
Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs All those neural network weights aren't much without ample decent silicon Systems20 Jan 2024 | 23
Businessman faces 20 years in prison over accusations of illicit chip exports to Russia Shipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company Systems19 Jan 2024 | 9
Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation On Call Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down Systems19 Jan 2024 | 132
Has the semiconductor down cycle reached its nadir? TSMC thinks so Chipmaker reports flat Q4 but expects to be on the up in 2024 Systems18 Jan 2024 |
Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity Middle Kingdom can make market moves too... as potential global price battles loom Systems17 Jan 2024 | 7
JPMorgan latest to pile into quantum upstart with $5B valuation Banking giant believes Quantinuum key to optimizing investment portfolios Systems16 Jan 2024 | 4
The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023 Systems16 Jan 2024 | 5
Europe benched in high tech 'Champions League' says ASML Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament Systems16 Jan 2024 | 13
Nvidia can't sell its best chips to China, but India is more than happy to take them Datacenter biz plans to deploy 32,000 Nvidia H100 and H200s next year Systems12 Jan 2024 | 1
Arm cooking up powerful Cortex-X CPU to beat iPhone performance, says industry watcher Plus: Analyst believes Samsung might give up on own cores and use Arm designs instead Systems11 Jan 2024 | 23
STMicroelectronics slims to be lean, mean, chipmaking machine Streamlines from 3 product groups to 2 as Automotive chief leaves the building Systems10 Jan 2024 | 5
Qualcomm CEO's pay jumps 395% in slow year for phone chips C-suite exec gets 223 staffers' worth of pay after cyclical headwinds dampen consumer demand for kit Systems09 Jan 2024 | 6
First functional graphene semiconductor could power future chips This one time at band gap... we managed to use wonder stuff as an electronic material for semiconducting Systems09 Jan 2024 | 12
Nvidia readies downgraded chips for China, but will anyone want to buy them? Once again, export restrictions are having the opposite to intended effects Systems08 Jan 2024 | 10
AMD brings its AI engines to the desktop with Ryzen 8000G APUs, RX 7600 XT graphics cards CES The House of Zen's aging Ryzen 5000 processors get some love too Systems08 Jan 2024 | 2
Mobileye shares crash after warning of automotive customers' chip glut Self-driving car biz says Q1 orders to drop 50% amid widening operating losses Systems05 Jan 2024 | 6
HPE's Hotard hits the hot seat at Intel's datacenter and AI biz Outsider brought in to rule crucial unit will play key part in AI strategy Systems04 Jan 2024 |
Semiconductor scene set for AI-led recovery in 2024, and China will be in front That's what happens when Uncle Sam tries to curb your chip sector Systems04 Jan 2024 | 1
Intel and VCs form Articul8 to push chip giant's AI kit and IP 'Independent' biz unsurprisingly uses in Xeon and Habana, and patent libraries Systems03 Jan 2024 |
MIPS snags top SiFive brains to amp up RISC-V business Drew Barbier and Brad Burgess join after restructure at former employer Systems03 Jan 2024 | 25
Japanese earthquake disrupts chip industry operations Industry lull good for tech, but human toll is grim reading Systems03 Jan 2024 | 3
US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early Dutch photolithography giant claims export control not hurting its bottom line Systems02 Jan 2024 | 33
China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA MTT S4000 GPU isn't super-fast, but the 'kilocard cluster' design supporting it looks interesting Systems20 Dec 2023 | 23
Facing stiff competition, Intel's Lisa Spelman reflects on Xeon hurdles, opportunities Interview With Emerald Rapids, Chipzilla's Xeon roadmap is back on track – now it just needs to stay there Systems18 Dec 2023 | 6
Lenovo leaps into AI limelight with Intel's Emerald Rapids Incoming datacenter chips will power new ThinkAgile, ThinkSystem boxes Systems15 Dec 2023 | 1
Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros Systems14 Dec 2023 | 44
Intel wants to run AI on CPUs and says its 5th-gen Xeons are ones to do it Oh and it's got more cores, a bigger cache, and a simpler chiplet architecture to boot Systems14 Dec 2023 | 5
Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans Systems13 Dec 2023 | 2
US willing to compromise with Nvidia over AI chip sales to China Jensen would rather not play Whac-a-Mole with Huang over every new GPU Systems13 Dec 2023 | 12
When it comes to AMD's latest AI chips, it's follow the money and the memory Kettle Don't expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest Systems12 Dec 2023 | 7
New York set to host $10B semiconductor research facility with IBM and Micron Elsewhere, BAE Systems bags first CHIPS Act funding Systems11 Dec 2023 | 1