systems Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns
systems Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services
systems AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack
systems Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button Ticklish situation solved with a lie about emergency maintenance
systems Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
systems Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree
systems d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers
systems Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory
systems Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is
systems ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 2033
systems Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget
storage Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
systems Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia
systems Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November
systems Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car
systems Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
systems MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job
systems OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin
systems SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn
systems IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere
systems YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry
systems What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators
systems Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon
systems Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power
systems AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide
systems IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside
systems AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago
systems Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues It seems like Nvidia’s not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon
systems Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack
systems Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
systems Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
systems Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes'
systems London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25
systems AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
storage Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records
systems HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady
systems Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate
systems AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first
SYSTEMS A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
SYSTEMS UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
SYSTEMS Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices
systems Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple
sytems Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay
systems Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
Systems AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
SYSTEMS Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
Security Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
SYSTEMS Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
SYSTEMS Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
systems High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’
Systems Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
SYSTEMS TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan Beware of fab makers bearing press releases
systems Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
SYSTEMS Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device
systems Samsung’s profits jump 19x in a year and you don’t need AI to figure out why Share price down sharply, apparently amid fears the bubble is getting bigger
systems IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family UPDATED: Big Blue happy for users to BYO rack and slot Z machines alongside other tech
systems Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
SYSTEMS Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
SYSTEMS Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads
SYSTEMS Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced
SYSTEMS IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom
systems Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits
systems Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market
AI and ML OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker
public sector British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems £120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more
systems Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
systems Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant
SYSTEMS Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms
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systems Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
SYSTEMS Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
SYSTEMS AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
SYSTEMS There's no such thing as an agentic CPU AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other
SOFTWARE Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!
SYSTEMS Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market
Systems Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
systems SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair
SYSTEMS Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
SYSTEMS Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them
PAAS AND IAAS Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill
systems SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price
systems Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex
SYSTEMS Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
SYSTEMS AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
systems Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track
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Systems US firms still dominate chip subsidies China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue
Systems Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now
systems If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst
Systems Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right
Systems UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill
Systems Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
Systems ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine
Systems Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm
Systems When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now
Systems Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea
Systems ZTE showcases end-to-end intelligent computing at CloudFest 2026 in Germany, empowering the digital future
Systems Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'
Systems Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP
