SYSTEMS A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
SYSTEMS UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
SYSTEMS Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices
systems Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple
sytems Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay
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
Systems AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
SYSTEMS Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
Security Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
SYSTEMS Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
SYSTEMS Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
systems High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’
Systems Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
SYSTEMS TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan Beware of fab makers bearing press releases
systems Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
SYSTEMS Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device
systems Samsung’s profits jump 19x in a year and you don’t need AI to figure out why Share price down sharply, apparently amid fears the bubble is getting bigger
systems IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family UPDATED: Big Blue happy for users to BYO rack and slot Z machines alongside other tech
systems Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
SYSTEMS Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
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
SYSTEMS Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced
SYSTEMS IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom
systems Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits
systems Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market
AI and ML OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker
public sector British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems £120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more
systems Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
systems Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant
SYSTEMS Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms
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systems Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
SYSTEMS Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
SYSTEMS AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
SYSTEMS There's no such thing as an agentic CPU AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other
SOFTWARE Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!
SYSTEMS Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market
Systems Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture
systems SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair
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 Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them
PAAS AND IAAS Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill
systems SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price
systems Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex
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 AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
systems Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track
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Systems US firms still dominate chip subsidies China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue
Systems Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now
systems If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst Chipzilla’s first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores
Systems Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading Threads on a half shell, Intel power!
Systems Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses
Systems Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC
Systems EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project DIY or die. Just don't let the CIA buy it
Systems Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses PLUS: Huawei says it’s replaced Moore’s Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!
Systems Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot
Systems UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down
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
Systems SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist in IPO filing Aims for the stars while burning cash and blowing deadlines on Earth
Systems GPU behemoth Nvidia on track to be world's leading CPU supplier too, says CFO GPUzilla forecasts $20 billion in CPU revenues this year
Systems AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is
Systems Intel's CEO reveals early hiring challenges as bankruptcy concerns deterred top talent Recovering chipmaker looks beyond 14A to 10A and 7A process nodes in foundry comeback bid
Systems Datacenter builds could be shielded from judicial review in UK planning reforms British government wants to ensure no hold-ups for critical energy and infrastructure projects
systems Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs Chip startup NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get Sandia National Lab's stamp of approval
Systems Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies
Systems On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter
Systems Possible Samsung strike puts even more pressure on memory pricing As a senior policymaker ponders whether all South Koreans should enjoy an ‘AI dividend’
Systems Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?
Systems Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’ Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips
systems Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters
Systems Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’ Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler
Systems Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’
Systems ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity
Systems Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm They were doing it in Texas...
Systems Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse
Systems AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear
Systems Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon
Systems SK Hynix’s aspirations for ’Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028
Systems AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match An $899 CPU? In this economy?
Systems World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple
Systems Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes
Systems A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware.
Systems Orbital datacenter startup CEO admits launch economics don't fly, presses ahead regardless Needs SpaceX et al to drop prices and give competitors a ride into space to make it work
Systems AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away
Systems Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises
Systems Oracle taps Bloom for 2.8 GW of fuel cells to keep datacenter binge going With grid hookups slow and turbines scarce, on-site power is starting to look less optional
Systems Britain gives Rolls-Royce the nod to sketch out its mini reactor future Contract kicks off design work, but SMRs unlikely to generate power before the mid-2030s
Systems When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now
Systems Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea
Systems ZTE showcases end-to-end intelligent computing at CloudFest 2026 in Germany, empowering the digital future
Systems Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'
Systems Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP
