Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest Another Brit tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange Systems09 Jun 2025 |
Trump official warns they're putting the squeeze on CHIPS Act winners Commerce secretary wants bigger bang for taxpayers' buck Systems05 Jun 2025 | 16
If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight Systems04 Jun 2025 | 28
GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex Silicon photonics and gallium nitride a major focus Systems04 Jun 2025 | 11
Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank Asia In Brief PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; APAC datacenter shortage predicted Systems02 Jun 2025 | 2
Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance Systems30 May 2025 | 4
The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy Analysis Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture Systems30 May 2025 | 2
Empowering digital transformation with a strategic partnership How Telstra and Equinix support hyperconnected digital infrastructure Partner content
Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war Cadence Systems, Synopsys, and Siemens among those subject to export licenses targeting Middle Kingdom Systems30 May 2025 | 31
Nvidia is cozying up to China with Shanghai R&D lab plans, Senators cry Banks and Warren accuse chip maker of habitual 'disregard for US national security and support for autocratic regimes' Systems29 May 2025 | 15
Trump trade policy to cost Nvidia $10.5B in lost H20 GPU revenues But don't worry, sales are still up 69 percent Systems29 May 2025 | 1
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick Systems28 May 2025 | 11
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle 400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew Systems27 May 2025 | 20
NTT Global Data Centers supercharges global datacenter growth with $10B investment and AI-first innovation Datacenter company is on a mission to meet growing AI workload demand Partner content
AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier On-Prem27 May 2025 | 18
China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon Systems27 May 2025 | 22
Even a humble keyboard is now political in Taiwan Computex Chinese manufacturers are advertising how they dodge tariffs, and tech leaders know they’re in a new world Personal Tech25 May 2025 | 26
Nvidia ain't done with x86 as it taps Intel Xeons to babysit GPUs Computex AI-optimized CPUs promise 4.6GHz clocks, at least for one in eight cores Systems23 May 2025 | 4
Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes Worries about uncertainty, even as AI pushes revenue and profit higher On-Prem23 May 2025 | 29
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Systems22 May 2025 | 12
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse
X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads
Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical infrastructure Destructive malware has been a hallmark of Putin's multi-modal war
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0 Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away
Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind
Techie traced cables from basement to maternity ward and onto a roof, before a car crash revealed the problem On Call Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places?
AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips Computex RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700 AI Infrastructure Month21 May 2025 | 36
Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver Systems20 May 2025 | 9
Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI Computex Wants to be the 'HR department for agents' AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia sets up shop in Taiwan with AI supers and a factory full of ambition Computex Researchers and TSMC to benefit from expanded infrastructure AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 4
Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI Computex CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing products AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs Computex One of the two just needs to be made by Nv AI + ML19 May 2025 |
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25
Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with less AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 20
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss Interview Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 5
Intel needs external foundry customers to make 14A process node pay off Ailing chip giant targets 2027 break-even as costly EUV tools raise stakes Systems14 May 2025 | 8
Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chips Partner content
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports Ding dong, diffusion is dead AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 11
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again Updated ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit Research13 May 2025 | 5
AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its best AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 13
US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days world war fee IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a win Personal Tech12 May 2025 | 50
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what? Who, Me? It was acceptable in the '80s Software12 May 2025 | 93
Arm says it isn’t worried by tariffs, but won't give guidance for FY'26 World War Fee No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line Systems08 May 2025 | 3
Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks World War Fee Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins Networks08 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy? Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too Systems08 May 2025 | 20
Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped OSes07 May 2025 | 74
Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4
Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’ AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1
Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches? And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4
Samsung customers buying now to avoid future tariffs – and may slow purchases once they arrive Datacenter build slowdown hurt storage sales but Korean giant sees bit barn rebound Systems01 May 2025 | 2
Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love +Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it? AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10
Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans Yet more strife for server-maker sees its share price slump by 15 percent Systems30 Apr 2025 | 3
808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 'We thought it was a really obvious way to build a processor and everybody would be doing it' Systems29 Apr 2025 | 70
EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0 Damning report says it set a moving target that was way too ambitious Systems28 Apr 2025 | 10
Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores Systems24 Apr 2025 | 5
Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised World War Fee Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! It's the art of the squeal Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 183
Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management' Hyperscaler says there's no decrease in demand, it's just looking for good deals Systems22 Apr 2025 | 4
Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 33
TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes Systems17 Apr 2025 |
First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible? HPC16 Apr 2025 | 7
ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters Systems16 Apr 2025 | 3
Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago Systems16 Apr 2025 | 53
Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029 Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 11
Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago Systems14 Apr 2025 | 13
Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal! Systems14 Apr 2025 | 2
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 13
OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that? Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting Systems10 Apr 2025 | 80
Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside Public Sector10 Apr 2025 | 33
Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025 Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE Systems09 Apr 2025 | 13
Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty World War Fee Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed? Systems09 Apr 2025 | 9
IBM's z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs) Systems08 Apr 2025 | 10
Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way Opinion We're on a roadmap to nowhere. Come on inside Columnists07 Apr 2025 | 31
US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land But analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains Systems04 Apr 2025 | 8
China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too Probably still behind western rivals, but improved GPU and higher core count can’t hurt Systems04 Apr 2025 | 27
Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs Systems03 Apr 2025 | 15
System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 38
Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Systems02 Apr 2025 | 10
Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat Updated CEO hails 'transformative year' as IPO puts 'puter maker on the big board Systems02 Apr 2025 | 39
Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz Alphawave Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop Systems02 Apr 2025 | 4
Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer AI accelerators to see the light, literally Networks01 Apr 2025 | 2
Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8
Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake Comment Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 22
Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending Systems01 Apr 2025 | 91
Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 3
CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades That stands for I Probably Overestimated? AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3
Dems dub Trump cuts to chip export controls a 'gift' to Xi and Putin Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job Systems27 Mar 2025 | 21
Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat Systems27 Mar 2025 | 3
US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies HPC26 Mar 2025 | 5
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty Systems20 Mar 2025 | 12
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 6
Interview: Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP and GM of Data Center Business, Micron A discussion on scaling the datacenter with the company’s AI memory and storage portfolio Sponsored Interview
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware Updated Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work Systems19 Mar 2025 | 31
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Systems19 Mar 2025 | 2
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 8
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 49
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway Datacenter Networking Nexus18 Mar 2025 | 2
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 107
Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan Restoring x86 giant to its former glory, a job no one will envy Systems12 Mar 2025 | 18
Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game Comment When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain? Systems12 Mar 2025 | 6
Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050 AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all Systems12 Mar 2025 | 16
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent' Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65