systems Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
software IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
off-prem AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
On-prem IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'
legal Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house
SYSTEMS Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads
Off-PREM Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!
SYSTEMS Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
SYSTEMS Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
Systems Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes
On-Prem Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures And neither AI nor international conflict are helping
AI + ML Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis
Personal Tech Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15
Virtualization Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now
Systems Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls
Systems HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins
Systems Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
Software New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor Poking around in deep menus found a fault that flummoxed old hands
Systems AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? Total operational capacity just keeps rising
The Future of the Datacenter Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3 IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I
Systems HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now
Systems Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet
SC25 Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak
Virtualization Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware This apparently makes VCF more extensible and open to partners
AI + ML Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory We're months away from AI building AI
Systems Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now Can’t rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects
On-Prem Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge 'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server
Systems Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time
Cybersecurity Month Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year – and no one noticed Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required
Systems The first rule of liquid cooling is 'Don't wet the chip.' Microsoft disagrees Redmond suggests ‘Microfluidics’ – hair-thin channels etched on silicon to let coolants flow
Off-Prem Dashboard anxiety plagues IT pros' nights, weekends, vacations Admins can't stop checking their portals, survey finds
Applications Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts
Systems 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
Research 'MadeYouReset' HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023's Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations
Cyber-crime BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang - but the crooks remain at large
Systems 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
AI + ML Foxconn says EV sales are so slow it's converting a factory to build AI servers instead Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons
Systems 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
Systems 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
AI Infrastructure Month Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'
AI Infrastructure Month Google details plans for 1 MW IT racks exploiting electric vehicle supply chain Switching voltage allows search giant to swap out power delivery system
Systems 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
Systems Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!
On-Prem System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability
Systems 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
AI + ML China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more!
On-Prem Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China Accused face up to 20 years in prison
Systems 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
On-Prem Like a kid handing in homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its missing financial figures SMCI had to come up with long-delayed report – or lose its slot on NASDAQ again
On-Prem Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc
On-Prem Lenovo isn't fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1M of profit, but execs think losses are behind it
On-Prem 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
Disaster Recovery Week NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco Spacecraft weather solar storms, but ground processing laid low by water
AI + ML Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age
Systems Intel’s datacenter architecture boss and Xeon lead jumps to Qualcomm Sailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon?
Channel The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now 'For 30 years you thought you were business geniuses,' veteran analyst tells resellers and distributors
Systems Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts
AI + ML $800 'AI' robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services
Systems Supermicro hot-swaps auditor in hope of dodging Nasdaq delisting Server maker tries accounting reboot amid reports of customers bailing
Off-Prem Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026 Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers
OSes Microsoft 'resolves' and 'mitigates' Windows Server 2025 update whoopsie No sign of 'rollback' yet
OSes Microsoft still not said anything about unexpected Windows Server 2025 installs Affected business calls situation 'mindbogglingly dangerous' as sysadmins reminded to check backup and restore strategies
OSes Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error Screens sprayed with coffee after techies find Microsoft's latest OS in unexpected places
Systems China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors Intel and AMD left scrapping over about a third of the deal, and license fees
On-Prem The best use for those latest manycore chips? AI, say server vendors PC makers might not be able to sell the idea - big iron has a better chance
Systems 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
Systems You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle
Systems Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
AI + ML China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions
HPC India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU
Systems 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
On-Prem Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent'
Systems 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
Systems Dell's all-in bet on AI pays off in latest earnings The term was mentioned over 140 times during the earnings call
Software Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture Come to 2019. The in-place upgrades to the Subscription Edition will be lovely
Systems Dell starts new round of layoffs while it looks to 'unlock modern AI' HR apparently overwhelmed by attempt to sack 12.5K people in one day
Off-Prem AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades
Off-Prem 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-Prem Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry
Systems Lenovo loses its Infrastructure Solutions Group boss The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues
AI + ML HPE Q2 sales rise was brought to you by the letters A and I Shipments of servers used for artificial intelligence jump more than 100% to $900M, share price up double digits
Storage Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue
Systems 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?
Systems Arm servers are on Nutanix's long-range radar, not yet its to-do list CTO waiting for major OEMs to get on board, but when/if that happens it'll be game on ... perhaps for AI
Systems Google now 'third-largest' in datacenter processors Custom silicon mounting up, says report from semiconductor researcher TechInsights
Off-Prem Alibaba Yitian 710 rated fastest Arm server CPU in the cloud (for now) Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win
Systems 45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works
Systems China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines
Systems Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit
On-Prem More than a third of enterprise datacenters expect to deploy liquid cooling by 2026 Which one of you is already running 100-plus kilowatt racks?
Systems HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change
Energy Efficient Datacenters OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems
PaaS + IaaS Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson
On-Prem Boss broke servers with a careless bit of keyboarding, leaving techies to sort it out late on a Sunday
