DoJ launches probes as AI antitrust storm clouds gather round Nvidia US regulator reportedly not happy about Run:ai buy... nor industry dominance Systems02 Aug 2024 | 3
Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs Analysis Share price in meltdown as Pat hopes buyers, investors, board can wait for 2026 turnaround Systems01 Aug 2024 | 35
Legal eagles target Intel for class action over cooked Raptor Lake CPUs If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with elevated voltage, you may be entitled to compensation Systems01 Aug 2024 | 10
UK court rules in Intel's favor in R2 Semi power patent case Legal woes are still ongoing in Italy, France, and Germany Systems01 Aug 2024 | 11
Arm's lackluster Q2 outlook overshadows strong Q1 revenue growth Execs blame gap in licensing revenues for lost momentum, while hawking AI Systems01 Aug 2024 |
Intel prepares to cut 'thousands' of workers Employees hate this one simple trick to fix failing business empires Systems31 Jul 2024 | 9
Upcoming US export rules on chipmaking tools won't apply to friendly countries 37 nations on good terms with Uncle Sam spared incoming restrictions, report claims Systems31 Jul 2024 | 6
Boeing's Q2 nosedive buoyed by appointment of new CEO It lost billions and missed expectations, but fresh blood at the top has pleased shareholders Systems31 Jul 2024 | 30
Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email SIGGRAPH A model finetuned on your social media profile? What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 31
TSMC confirms it'll dig into Dresden for chip giant's first fab on Euro soil Partnership with NXP, Infineon, and Bosch finally gets under way Systems30 Jul 2024 | 3
Rising costs biggest issue for datacenter operators as demand grows Not to mention the skills gap, AI skepticism, and the unrelenting quest for power Systems30 Jul 2024 | 3
Intel nabs Micron exec to oversee foundry business ambitions Memory veteran to help Gelsinger and co with longstanding internal/external contract manufacturing plans Systems26 Jul 2024 |
STMicroelectronics sees sharp decline in Q2 earnings amid weak auto sector demand NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments also hit by slowdown Systems25 Jul 2024 | 6
Datacenters guzzled more than a fifth of Ireland's electricity in 2023 Bit barns binge on Emerald Isle power Systems25 Jul 2024 | 17
You're not hallucinating: Generative AI is helping IBM's mainframes grow Big Blue brings in more cash and profit than predicted Systems25 Jul 2024 | 9
AMD claims Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores Comment But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs? Systems23 Jul 2024 | 1
Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market Comment But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls? Systems22 Jul 2024 | 4
DARPA slaps down credit card for 3D military chiplets – $840M ought to be enough? UT-Austin lab gets the job, and five years to do it Public Sector18 Jul 2024 | 3
TSMC boss predicts AI chip shortage through 2025, says Trump comments don't change his strategy Overseas expansion to continue, insists C.C. Wei Systems18 Jul 2024 | 2
Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar 'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?
Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so
Secure Boot useless on hundreds of PCs from major vendors after key leak Infosec in brief Plus: More stalkerware exposure; a $16M TracFone fine; Ransomware victims don't use MFA, and more
Firefox's Mozilla follows Google in losing trust in Entrust's TLS certificates Compliance failures and unsatisfactory responses mount from the long-time certificate authority
Post-CrowdStrike, Microsoft to discourage use of kernel drivers by security tools Updated Now there's an idea – parsing config data in user mode
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder For the want of an underscore
DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+ Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims
GlobalWafers scores $400M to help build US's first 300mm wafer plants in Texas and Missouri CHIPS ACT grant will help cover the Taiwanese semiconductor firm’s $4B budget Systems17 Jul 2024 | 3
Rising ASML sales overshadowed by fears of more drastic US restrictions Market immediately responds as shares in Dutch maker of crucial photolithography tech dip Systems17 Jul 2024 | 6
Huawei lays final bricks of billion-dollar Shanghai R&D complex Billed as a city in its own right, center built to advance megacorp's 5G, cloud, and AI tech Systems16 Jul 2024 | 4
Intel's China investments may have spurred fresh US restrictions Analysis Has America been taking it too easy on local companies so far? Systems16 Jul 2024 | 2
AMD predicts future AI PCs will run 30B parameter models at 100 tokens per second Analysis They're gonna need a heck of a lot of memory bandwidth – not to mention capacity – to do it Systems15 Jul 2024 | 25
AMD spills the beans on Zen 5's 16% IPC gains Fatter front end and execution engine meets a higher bandwidth backend and a true AVX-512 implementation Systems15 Jul 2024 | 13
Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD Systems13 Jul 2024 | 56
SoftBank buys struggling UK AI chipmaker Graphcore Potential for combo with Arm tantalizes Systems12 Jul 2024 | 6
AI demand pushes TSMC revenue for 2024 up 28% so far Taiwan's silicon supremo comfortably sails past analyst forecasts Systems10 Jul 2024 |
EU Competition Commissioner hints at Nvidia GPU probe, refers to 'huge bottleneck' CUDA, woulda, shoulda be first port of call for AI slingers, but does it respect its own dominance? Systems08 Jul 2024 | 2
US-China chip wars 'mainly ideological' says ex-ASML boss And it'll be decades before things settle down again Systems08 Jul 2024 | 2
Fear of commodity chip flood sparks EU probe into China's silicon ambitions They're cranking 'em out like there's no tomorrow Systems08 Jul 2024 | 22
Nvidia forecast to bounce back in China to make $12B selling GPUs Company's sales in the region have dropped under US plan to curb country's AI hopes Systems05 Jul 2024 |
Good news: Samsung predicts prodigious profit pop Bad news: It's probably because you have to pay more for RAM Systems05 Jul 2024 |
Datacenter demand driven by AI... but constrained by power shortages Not content with drinking up all our water, now we'll compete with DCs for power AI + ML04 Jul 2024 | 6
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia' Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance AI + ML01 Jul 2024 | 19
Beijing says state owns China's rare earth metals Better management of critical materials or retaliation for sanctions? Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 31
Asda kisses Walmart goodbye with half a billion dollar tech breakup bill Project including SAP upgrade beset by cost increases and delays Systems01 Jul 2024 | 31
Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 4
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6
Lenovo brings virtualization, cloud stack to Chinese chip designer Loongson's CPU arch NAS slingers, healthcare software makers, government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Virtualization27 Jun 2024 | 4
Huawei struggling to ramp GPU production as US sanctions bite President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between 'international powers' are 'intertwined' Systems26 Jun 2024 | 5
Etched looks to challenge Nvidia with an ASIC purpose-built for transformer models Startup says Sohu chip will be 20x faster than Nvidia's H100 in Llama 70B … assuming it's actually built AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 6
Want to save the planet from AI? Chuck in an FPGA and ditch the matrix Watts down, doc: Boffins find machine learning models can function with more modest power requirements AI + ML26 Jun 2024 | 35
Intel investor sues over Foundry flop, seeks to reforge corporate governance Lawsuit demands big changes and a little transparency in reporting Systems25 Jun 2024 | 7
Ooredoo to splash Nvidia GPUs across the Middle East Qatari telco reckons deal will give it an 18–24 month lead in region AI + ML25 Jun 2024 |
Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble Variant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack Systems24 Jun 2024 |
DARPA searched for fields quantum computers really could revolutionize, with mixed results It's not all hype, but more work is needed before solutions are feasible or affordable Systems24 Jun 2024 | 34
Samsung teases investment to get into the GPU game Analysis A head-on assault on Nvidia seems unlikely – but dumping AMD from Exynos has merit AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 7
Bake an LLM with custom prompts into your app? Sure! Here's how to get started Hands on In Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story AI + ML22 Jun 2024 | 6
Meta warns bit flips, other hardware faults cause AI errors It's no hallucination: '4 in 1,000 inferences inaccurate' due to this alone, depending on the setup AI + ML21 Jun 2024 | 39
Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now HPC20 Jun 2024 | 11
Semiconductor industry navigating choppy waters with sunnier climes ahead Despite dip in equipment revenue, analysts predict robust rebound Systems20 Jun 2024 |
GPU-accelerated VMs on Proxmox, XCP-ng? Here's what you need to know Hands on Go ahead, toss that old gaming card in your box and boost your AI applications — you know you want to AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 14
Supermicro plans to flood market with liquid-cooled datacenter tech Three new Silicon Valley campuses in pipeline to meet demand Systems19 Jun 2024 | 1
Hong Kong authorities halt alleged smuggler shifting 596 'high-end' CPUs to China Images suggest they could be recent Intel Xeons – perhaps even the sort of kit subject to sanctions Systems19 Jun 2024 | 15
Japan's industrial SciTech Institute plans two quantum computers and an Nvidia injection 10,000 qubits reportedly on the cards for one of them, with help from IBM Systems19 Jun 2024 |
Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |
TSMC chip plant construction halted by discovery of archaeological ruins Ancient ruined architecture? What's Intel's Itanium doing in Taiwan? Systems18 Jun 2024 | 5
HPE, Nvidia team up to offer 'turnkey' private cloud racks for keeping AI loads local HPE Discover Everyone wants to be best buddies with Jensen Huang's GPU juggernaut AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 1
CHERI Alliance formed to promote memory security tech ... but where's Arm? Updated Academic-industry project takes next step as key promoter chip designer licks its wounds Research18 Jun 2024 | 3
Arm security defense shattered by speculative execution 95% of the time 'TikTag' security folks find anti-exploit mechanism rather fragile Research18 Jun 2024 | 27
AMD says datacenter still king for profit margins amid AI buzz CFO talks GPU development, strategy and market dynamics at Nasdaq Investor Conference Systems17 Jun 2024 |
Supplier collaboration brings renewable competitive advantage at Verne Data centre pioneer deploys innovative CPUs to drive HPC that doesn’t burn a hole through sustainability targets Advertorial
Clearview AI reaches 'creative' settlement with privacy suit plaintiffs: A conditional IOU Biz too broke, class too big to settle now; agrees to pay in limited circumstances like an IPO, liquidation Personal Tech14 Jun 2024 | 14
Startup Diraq taps GlobalFoundries to forge silicon-based quantum chips Vows to have a 'commercially relevant' system within five years Systems13 Jun 2024 | 3
Preventing another chip shortage on G7 summit agenda Group will also look into protecting subsea communications infrastructure Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 1
ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 |
SK hynix shimmies towards AI silicon by driving merger of South Korean Nvidia challengers Sapeon and Rebellions think they can do better together Systems13 Jun 2024 |
AMD's DC chief happy to work with Intel and others to chip away at Nvidia's AI empire 'If everybody's got their own little ecosystem, it's very inefficient' Systems12 Jun 2024 | 3
Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud WWDC Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry Off-Prem11 Jun 2024 | 12
VMware and Dell back together with fresh OEM agreement Lenovo and HPE have also signed deal to carry on hyperconverging Systems11 Jun 2024 | 6
Nvidia execs cash out shares as GPU giant skyrockets Management may think valuation is peaking on back of AI fever Systems10 Jun 2024 | 7
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Some investors bet against Nvidia, expecting AI bubble to burst Short bread's plenty appetizing as dough hungry traders and analysts voice scepticism on endless growth Systems07 Jun 2024 | 22
Lenovo loses its Infrastructure Solutions Group boss The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues Systems07 Jun 2024 | 1
China's new sanctions loophole: Use export-controlled chips inside the US Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America Systems06 Jun 2024 | 5
New chips built for the age of AI Latest generation CPUs prioritized for large range of specific use cases and workloads Sponsored Post
Intel gets $11B from Apollo for joint venture at Irish chip fab Frees up some of the cash Chipzilla's already sunk into Fab 34 Systems05 Jun 2024 | 1
ASML and Imec unveil pricy High NA EUV playground for chipmakers Because who doesn't love a $373M toy? Systems05 Jun 2024 | 3
All the datacenter roadmap updates Intel, AMD, Nvidia teased at Computex Computex We sifted through hours of presentations so you don't have to Systems05 Jun 2024 |
TSMC mulled moving chip fabs from Taiwan over China threat CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible Systems04 Jun 2024 | 9
Fired-up Pat Gelsinger shoots from the lip at Qualcomm and Nvidia Computex Intel boss reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics Systems04 Jun 2024 | 2
Raspberry Pi unveils Hailo-powered AI Kit to make the model 5 smarter 13 TOPS for $70 has PiBoss Eben Upton predicting an ML explosion Systems04 Jun 2024 | 34
Intel challenges AMD's Epycs with a 144 e-core Xeon Computex 128 p-core Xeons to follow in Q3 while the x86 giant will release its 288 e-core monster early next year On-Prem04 Jun 2024 | 12
Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market Systems03 Jun 2024 | 9
We're the Ryzen force in CPUs for AI PCs: AMD Computex Arm, schmarm: New 50TOPS NPUs that talk Block FP16 really make AI sing, says CEO Lisa Su Systems03 Jun 2024 |
AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia's H200 Computex House of Zen hopes to catch its AI rival by moving to a yearly release cadence Systems03 Jun 2024 | 1
Dell predicts 20 percent jump in memory and SSD prices later this year Has already hiked prices to cope and is prepared to do it again while you wait for boxes with Nvidia inside On-Prem31 May 2024 | 3
Samsung workers treated for exposure to radiation in South Korea Workplace safety org identifies 26 hazards in the chipmaking process Systems30 May 2024 | 10
AI chip sales predicted to jump by a third this year – then cool off Gartner gives us a ray of hope amid ongoing hype and pressure to buy more hardware AI + ML29 May 2024 | 1
Activist investor pressures Texas Instruments to stop spending cash on fabs Thinking about tripling capacity by 2030? Start thinking about our returns... Systems29 May 2024 | 27
Why RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard vs open source Feature It's the difference between export limits on specific chips – and a problematic blanket ban Systems29 May 2024 | 66
Infineon promises 12kW PSUs for next generation of power-hungry AI servers How else are you going to feed all those 1,000-plus watt GPUs? Systems28 May 2024 | 11
Nvidia said to be prepping AI PC chip with Arm and Blackwell cores Rivalry in Windows on Arm space would intensify once GPU giant enters the fray Systems28 May 2024 | 1
Samsung disputes report Nvidia isn't happy with its HBM quality Asia In Brief PLUS: Indian TV channel adopts 24x7 AI anchors; Google building first Africa-Australia sub cable; Singtel's strategy reset; and more Systems27 May 2024 |
Nvidia faces local competition for its 'China special' GPUs Which rival would be so bold as to snatch its business Huawei? Systems24 May 2024 | 9
AMD's CFO Jean Hu talks CPUs, GPUs and the road ahead Surging demand, the AI plan, and spinning FPGAs into gold Systems24 May 2024 | 1
Thanks for the memory, South Korea tells nation's chip makers – now build processors President warns of 'all-out national warfare' around silicon as he announces $19B development package Systems24 May 2024 | 4
Arm servers are on Nutanix's long-range radar, not yet its to-do list Next CTO waiting for major OEMs to get on board, but when/if that happens it'll be game on ... perhaps for AI Systems23 May 2024 | 2