NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia
Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt
Systems22 Aug 2025 | 6
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DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon
Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon
AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 4
Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist
Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan
Systems20 Aug 2025 | 9
GlobalFoundries inks domestic chipmaking deal with Cirrus Logic
No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins
Systems20 Aug 2025 | 1
Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering
Feature Good start, but you have to keep it up, say key players
Personal Tech20 Aug 2025 | 31
Open the pod bay door, GPT-4o
Researchers use LLM in 'AI Space Cortex' to automate robotic extraterrestrial exploration
AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 8
AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons
Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types
Off-Prem20 Aug 2025 | 1
Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon
Rami Sinno led Trainium and Inferentia development at Amazon
Systems19 Aug 2025 | 3
To heck with export controls! Nvidia reportedly plotting cut-down B300 for Chinese market
It's that or a replacement for its aging H200 NVL PCIe cards
Systems19 Aug 2025 | 12
How to level up your multi-site IT
Cloud outage? No problem. Use VergeOS instead
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Softbank bets $2 billion on Intel having a future
Takes two percent stake as rumours swirl Uncle Sam could do something similar
Systems19 Aug 2025 | 10
India's PM laments missing out on global chipmaking dominance – in 1964!
Prime Minister promises first local silicon will appear this year, decades after Fairchild Semi's Robert Noyce made polite inquiries
Systems18 Aug 2025 | 2
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost
Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand
Systems15 Aug 2025 | 1
CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months
Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?
Cloud Infrastructure Month13 Aug 2025 | 5
Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics
Designs scheduled for launch in 2026, developer kit for programmers out today
Systems12 Aug 2025 | 2
Trump does a 180 on Intel chief following White House meeting
Chip giant praises 'president's strong leadership,' promises to 'restore this great American company'
Systems12 Aug 2025 | 34
Nvidia gives its tiniest workstation GPUs a Blackwell boost
70W TDP means the new RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 won't blow power budgets
Systems11 Aug 2025 | 4
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down
Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors
Systems11 Aug 2025 | 34
Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales
Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU
Public Sector11 Aug 2025 | 21
Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s
A new connector may be on the cards, too
Systems08 Aug 2025 | 9
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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday
Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
AI crawlers and fetchers are blowing up websites, with Meta and OpenAI the worst offenders
Updated One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute
IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4
Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better
Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links
Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest
Systems07 Aug 2025 | 62
Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors
World War Fee Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs
Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 53
Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge
Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India
Systems06 Aug 2025 | 19
Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim
Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment
Systems06 Aug 2025 | 25
Meta putting wood in bit barns in bid to get greener
Timber!
Systems06 Aug 2025 | 14
Nvidia security boss pledges 'no backdoors'
As US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping chips to China
Systems06 Aug 2025 | 4
Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China
Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports
Systems05 Aug 2025 | 27
TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft
UPDATED Tokyo Electron reveals a former employee is involved, and that no info reached third parties
Systems05 Aug 2025 |
Capacity planning a rising concern for datacenter operators as AI grows
New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages
Cloud Infrastructure Month03 Aug 2025 | 3
Beijing summons Nvidia over alleged backdoors in China-bound AI chips
H20 silicon under the microscope after slipping through US export bans
Systems31 Jul 2025 | 12
Arm plots move up the stack with push into end-to-end silicon
Brit chip biz sees demand surge for turnkey compute subsystems, chiplets, and complete SoC designs
Systems31 Jul 2025 | 7
Qualcomm working on datacenter CPU and in ‘advanced discussions’ with hyperscaler
But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it’s found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs
Systems31 Jul 2025 | 3
Stacking up Huawei’s rack-scale boogeyman against Nvidia’s best
Analysis Chinese IT giant's CloudMatrix 384 promises GB200-beating perf, if you ignore power and the price tag
Systems29 Jul 2025 | 2
Taxman picks up $140M tab after Cadence fined for China export violations
Changes enacted in Trump's budget cover cost of penalty
Systems29 Jul 2025 | 1
Elon outs $16.5B Samsung chip deal Tesla asked to keep secret
Musk: 'I will walk the line personally to accelerate the pace of progress'
Systems28 Jul 2025 | 46
Intel cutting cutting-edge node funds would mean no more Moore's Law
At least at Chipzookie... TSMC and Global Foundaries may yet continue to try to defy physics
Systems28 Jul 2025 | 28
Intel to throw networking biz over the side of its rapidly shrinking ship
Chipzilla hopes it can pull an Altera with its NEX division, and is now looking for buyers
Systems25 Jul 2025 | 18
Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs
CEO Lip-Bu Tan says strategy shift will focus on customer needs, efficiency, and cutting costs
Systems25 Jul 2025 | 30
A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says
Psst, wanna buy some innovation?
Systems24 Jul 2025 | 23
Overcoming app delivery and security challenges in AI deployments
F5 AI Gateway enables protection and optimization to deliver ideal user experiences
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US tariff terrors prompt Nokia profit drop, TI inventory binge
Uncertainty continues to knock tech industry confidence
Networks23 Jul 2025 | 2
How AI chip upstart FuriosaAI won over LG with its power-sipping design
Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than.... five-year-old Nvidia silicon
AI + ML22 Jul 2025 | 3
Nvidia extends CUDA support to RISC-V just in time for next wave of Chinese CPUs
Updated The prime beneficiary of the AI boom has global ambitions
Systems21 Jul 2025 | 2
Vintage computing boffin releases expansive Intel 286 test suite
A desire for cycle accuracy results in 32 million recorded CPU states derived entirely from original hardware
Systems21 Jul 2025 | 31
China proves that open models are more effective than all the GPUs in the world
Comment OpenAI delayed its promised open-weights model since GPT-2, leaving the Middle Kingdom clearly in the lead
Systems19 Jul 2025 | 43
Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else
Systems18 Jul 2025 | 8
Power to the people: How Snapdragon’s smartphone DNA is disrupting the PC market
Qualcomm Technologies is back with a non-x86-based processor series that offers power and performance
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Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
Research17 Jul 2025 | 96
ASML shares tumble as US tariff turmoil rattles investors
World War Fee AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant
Systems16 Jul 2025 | 5
AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China
Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish
Systems16 Jul 2025 | 4
CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite
World War Fee Uncertainty to blame as businesses wait to see what US Prez Trump does next
On-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 7
Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters
First, Zuck takes Manhattan. Then he might actually deliver a product that matters
Off-Prem15 Jul 2025 | 31
Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval
Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU
Public Sector15 Jul 2025 | 8
Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over
A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants
Systems11 Jul 2025 | 11
Slow down on building power plants for all those new AI datacenters, report warns
Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says
Systems10 Jul 2025 | 13
AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly
Security09 Jul 2025 | 27
Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip
Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon
Systems09 Jul 2025 | 14
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS
A big bet that RISC-V can make a dent in the AI market
Systems09 Jul 2025 | 6
IBM boasts new Power11 chips are stingy on power usage
More efficient cores plus an optional energy saver mode in Big Blue's latest CPUs
Systems08 Jul 2025 | 8
Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia
Analysis Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2
Systems08 Jul 2025 | 3
Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate
On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 26
Gone in 40 days: US drops ban on export of chip design tools to China
World War Fee Vendors have reason to celebrate as geopolitics recalibrate
Systems03 Jul 2025 | 27
Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale
R&D teams are 'separable' says biz, which is open to offers for parts or the whole
Systems01 Jul 2025 | 3
EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running
176 expressions of interest to erect 'gigafactories' across 16 member states, with 3 million GPUs needed
On-Prem01 Jul 2025 | 9
DRAM spot prices doubled last week
Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame
Systems01 Jul 2025 | 9
Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet
Server shipments surge 70% in 2025, still shy of datacenter dominance goal
Systems30 Jun 2025 | 1
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers
Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems
Systems30 Jun 2025 | 8
The network is indeed trying to become the computer
Analysis Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems
Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 7
Intel totals automotive group
Lip-Bu Tan calls in the crusher
Systems25 Jun 2025 | 15
Huawei's latest notebook shows China is still generations behind in chipmaking
Kirin X90 SoC made on two-year-old 7nm N+2 process
Systems23 Jun 2025 | 48
Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power
It would be the first major US nuclear plant built in over 15 years
Systems23 Jun 2025 | 24
Wolfspeed to file for Chapter 11 in deal cutting 70% of debt
Power chip biz to hand over equity to lenders, wipe out most shareholders, and keep running during restructuring
Systems23 Jun 2025 | 10
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world
Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 10
China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar
Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance
Public Sector20 Jun 2025 | 36
Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth
Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs
Systems19 Jun 2025 | 5
Interactive IEA tracker shows where AI is guzzling the most energy
Observatory maps datacenter hubs and power demand worldwide
Systems19 Jun 2025 | 4
Nvidia bets on Gates-backed nuclear startup to keep its AI ambitions from melting down
$650M funding round aims to bring TerraPower's Natrium power plant in Wyoming online by 2030
Science18 Jun 2025 | 14
Military-tech upstart Anduril pushes further into NATO with German arms maker deal
Move fast and blow things up
Systems18 Jun 2025 | 13
Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated
Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 9
Pulsant and Nine23 offer sovereign service for UK govt, regulated sectors
Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data
Systems18 Jun 2025 | 8
Intel reportedly chips away at fab workforce – but hey, maybe there's a tax break coming
Layoffs loom at Foundry biz despite CHIPS Act relief on the horizon
Systems17 Jun 2025 | 9
Rack scale is on the rise, but it's not for everyone... yet
Analysis Still buying B200s and MI300Xs? Don't feel bad, Nvidia and AMD's NVL72 and Helios rack systems aren't really for the enterprise anyway
Systems17 Jun 2025 |
TSMC strengthens Japan ties with joint R&D lab in Tokyo
University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy
Systems12 Jun 2025 | 1
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6
AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144
House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 |
AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell
And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 9
Amazon has changed its nuclear deal in Pennsylvania to bypass grumpy regulators
New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback
Systems12 Jun 2025 | 11
UK bets big (and small) on nuclear as datacenter demand expected to climb
£14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors
Systems11 Jun 2025 | 53
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 3
Huawei founder says USA overestimates its semiconductor prowess
Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up
Systems10 Jun 2025 | 16
Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand
After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 |
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy
Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 | 50
Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest
Another tech biz to be Yanked from London Stock Exchange
Systems09 Jun 2025 | 4
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 | 29
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
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