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Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits

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

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

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

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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

Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research

Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant

Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia

Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms

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

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

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

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other

Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges

Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!

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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

Shark fin emerging from blue water near the surface.

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

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

Here's a look at Delos Data's reference design. The front of the system features 36 OSFP cages each capable of 1.6 Tbps of bandwidth.

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

Qualinx QLX3xx chip held in tweezers above a circuit board

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

Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters

Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill

SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop

Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price

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

Here's a look at the index card sized compute nodes that make up Gigabyte's R1C7-KOA-AS1. Each packs 8-core Intel Lunar Lake mobile processor with 32 GB of memory and a pair of m.2 SSDs.

Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box

Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?

AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow

Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture

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

Macro Shot of a Silicon Wafer with Computer Chips during Manufacturing Process at Fab or Foundry. Semiconductor Wafer Texture.

US firms still dominate chip subsidies

China's support is greater relative to semiconductor industry revenue

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

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

Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading

Threads on a half shell, Intel power!

Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform

Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses

Alibaba gets Android 16 running on RISC-V

Beijing’s sovereign stack ambitions strengthen

A bright blue computer chip glowing on a circuit board with fine electronic traces.

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

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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

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!

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

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

Alibaba T-Head M890 chip and Panjiu AL128 Supernode Servers

Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops

Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes

SpaceX pitches itself as integrated interplanetary proto-monopolist in IPO filing

Aims for the stars while burning cash and blowing deadlines on Earth

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GPU behemoth Nvidia on track to be world's leading CPU supplier too, says CFO

GPUzilla forecasts $20 billion in CPU revenues this year

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

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

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

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

A glowing microchip with EU stars sits on a circuit board in a dark technological scene.

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

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

Possible Samsung strike puts even more pressure on memory pricing

As a senior policymaker ponders whether all South Koreans should enjoy an ‘AI dividend’

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips

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

Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

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’

Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm

They were doing it in Texas...

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AWS SVP Peter De Santis presents Graviton 3

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores

After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse

Loading operation for a Boeing 747-400 Freight - for selfsame model - but for Cargolux Airlines at Milan Malpensa Airport back in 2016

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers

Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear

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

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

Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US

Happy Earth Day!

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match

An $899 CPU? In this economy?

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

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

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.

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

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

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands

Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

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

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

Rapidus has broken ground its 2nm wafer plant in Hokkaido

When the IBM PC and shoulder pads were big, Japan led the chip industry. It's trying to get back there now

Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold

Andy Jassy during AWS reinvent 2020 keynote

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity

Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania

NVidia aims to gives games power to handhelds

Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges

China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say

Supermicro launches probe after staff charged with China export violations

Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers

Elon Musk and Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan shake hands outside what appears to be the chipmaker's Arizona fab

Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions

Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI

Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips

Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk