Intel, AMD, team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul
Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 8
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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 | 2
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 |
Britain opens floodgates to US datacenter investment
Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway?
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 18
AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright
So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels
Systems14 Oct 2024 | 23
How HPC is cooler, literally
Attend SC24 to find out about liquid cooling and so much more
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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 | 16
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
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UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard
Will it also plug into some common sense?
One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support
Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys
WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly
WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too
Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen?
Who, Me? The only thing worse than a Reply All storm is a Send All storm
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em
Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6
Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals
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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 | 16
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
Rapidus, rapidly running through funds, needs $700M for 2nm chip plant
Japanese government has also earmarked $6.4B for the project
Systems09 Sep 2024 |
Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims
GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup
Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11
Qualcomm reportedly eyeing Intel's PC design biz and more
Chipzilla hasn't collapsed yet but the vultures are circling
Systems06 Sep 2024 | 2
Dutch government takes ASML export measures off Uncle Sam's hands
Photolithography giant assures customers it is under no new restrictions
Systems06 Sep 2024 | 5
Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
Comment Foundry faces a reckoning
CxO06 Sep 2024 | 66
Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling
Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom
PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 5
US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia
Alloys make the list too, as allies try to ensure foes can't weaponise tech
Public Sector06 Sep 2024 | 4
Intel Arrow Lake to be made elsewhere as 20A process node canned
Meanwhile, Broadcom reportedly displeased with 18A wafers
Systems05 Sep 2024 | 12
Qualcomm guns for Intel, AMD with cheaper 8-core X chips
It’s set to slice up the AI PC competition at $700-$900
Systems04 Sep 2024 | 5
Cloud HPC the 'SilverLining' in global warming mitigation
Leveraging cloud-based supercomputing to accelerate climate solutions
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OpenAI allegedly wants TSMC 1.6nm for in-house AI chip debut
Another job for Broadcom, then
AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
DoJ reportedly advances Nvidia antitrust probe
Updated Uncle Sam apparently worried GPU giant may be punishing customers who shop around
AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 5
Intel's 120 TOPS Lunar Lake AI PC chips have landed
And all it took was some good old fashioned outsourcing to TSMC
AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 13
Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index
50% dive in market cap during 2024 forcing CEO Pat Gelsinger to revisit strategy
Channel03 Sep 2024 | 22
China outspending US, Taiwan, and South Korea combined on chipmaking kit
$25B semiconductor shopping spree leaves rivals in the dust
Systems03 Sep 2024 | 18
One of China's best GPU prospects admits it's failing, lays off workers
Needs new investors to get beyond current modest products
Systems03 Sep 2024 | 8
Dell's all-in bet on AI pays off in latest earnings
The term was mentioned over 140 times during the earnings call
Systems30 Aug 2024 | 8
Technology combinations for complex chip projects
Reducing manual effort and achieving better coverage with AI and formal techniques
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Gelsinger opens up about Intel troubles amid talk of possible split
From spinoffs to layoffs and a boardroom revolt, 2024 isn't going great for Chipzilla
Systems30 Aug 2024 | 27
Nvidia admits Blackwell defect, but Jensen Huang pledges Q4 shipments as promised
The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 3
AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon
Hot Chips Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 8
Hangover from messy Walmart tech divorce ongoing at Asda
UK grocer suffers IT issues with clothing orders, self-scanning, and store picker app
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 35
Supermicro delays 10-K filling due to accounting issues
Financial research org labels server-maker a ‘serial recidivist’, alleges quality product problems
Systems28 Aug 2024 | 5
Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS
Hot Chips Shove 32 of 'em in a box and you've got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 6
Intel's Software Guard Extensions broken? Don't panic
More of a storm in a teacup
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 9
Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall
DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 13
IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron
Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity
Systems27 Aug 2024 |
Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates
Hot Chips Faster than you can read? More like blink and you'll miss the hallucination
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 7
Intel enlists Morgan Stanley to defend against activist investors
Multiple lawsuits doesn't mean investors are coming for the board yet, but better safe than sorry, right?
Systems26 Aug 2024 | 11
A quick guide to tool-calling in large language models
Hands on A few lines of Python is all it takes to get a model to use a calculator or even automate your hypervisor
Systems26 Aug 2024 | 40
Benchmarks show even an old Nvidia RTX 3090 is enough to serve LLMs to thousands
For 100 concurrent users, the card delivered 12.88 tokens per second—just slightly faster than average human reading speed
Systems23 Aug 2024 | 12
Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD
Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed
Systems23 Aug 2024 | 37
LiquidStack says its new CDU can chill more than 1MW of AI compute
So what’s that good for? Like eight of Nvidia’s NVL-72s?
Systems22 Aug 2024 | 6
When building the future, the past is no longer a guide
Tomorrow’s engineering challenges are more than a core problem
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China's chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations
Think tank warns US and friends they can't assume Beijing won't catch up
Systems21 Aug 2024 | 27
AMD reverses course: Ryzen 3000 CPUs will get SinkClose patch after all
Still no love for 1000- or 2000-series
Systems20 Aug 2024 | 21
Delays? We're still shipping 'small quantities' of Nvidia's GB200 in Q4, Foxconn insists
Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 1
SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters
Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3
Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle
Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 2
Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry
Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Huawei's Ascend 910 launches this October to challenge Nvidia's H100
US sanctions may make things hard for Huawei, but the tech titan still has big GPU ambitions
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
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