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 | 1
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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 | 15
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump
Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers
Systems22 May 2025 | 8
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 | 32
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
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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 | 92
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
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Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it
On Call For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
US Navy sailor charged in horrific child sextortion case
Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm
Ivanti makes dedicated fans of Chinese spies who just can't resist attacking its buggy kit
If it ain't broke?
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30
Feature The coffee shows no signs of cooling
BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent pay rise
Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack
Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns
Suspected creeps behind DanaBot malware that hit 300K+ computers revealed
And the associated fraud'n'spy botnet is about to be shut down
STORIES
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 | 5
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
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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
Nvidia GTC18 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
Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on
Nothing says 'sustainable AI' like the burps of Appalachian industry
Systems11 Mar 2025 | 9
ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China
Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field
Systems10 Mar 2025 | 30
eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI
OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23
Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt
Updated Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to
Systems05 Mar 2025 | 158
As Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU, Beijing throws its weight behind ISA
A major policy directive strongly suggesting use of the royalty-free architecture is apparently imminent
Systems05 Mar 2025 | 15
AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series
The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP
Systems28 Feb 2025 | 51
Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time
Executives pull on the baggy trousers to distribute the pink slips
Systems28 Feb 2025 | 22
Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory
Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing
Systems27 Feb 2025 | 2
Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption
May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent
Nvidia GTC27 Feb 2025 | 9
Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list
Updated OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware
OSes24 Feb 2025 | 129
Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD
But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster
Systems24 Feb 2025 | 3
Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system
Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims
On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 14
Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors
Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table
Systems20 Feb 2025 | 12
The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice
Interview EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge
AI + ML17 Feb 2025 | 17
UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay
'Satisfied' the risk to national security is 'a real and significant one' that should not be 'prolonged'
Systems17 Feb 2025 | 24
TechUK demands that Britain's chip strategy is crisped up
Trade body wants recommendations fast-tracked and fabs designated critical national infrastructure
Systems17 Feb 2025 | 9
Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz
Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee
Systems17 Feb 2025 | 16
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