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 Local hero Rapidus is on track to begin production of 2nm semis next year, as TSMC expands its Japanese foothold
Systems 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
Systems 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
Systems 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
Systems 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
Systems 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
Systems How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable
Systems IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute
Systems AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds Researchers say localized warming can extend well past site edges, raising concerns about community impact
Systems Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it Cores it's got what agents crave
Systems Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI’s memory use, but don’t assume that means less demand for DRAM
Systems US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026
Systems ZTE showcases end-to-end intelligent computing at CloudFest 2026 in Germany, empowering the digital future AI boom fuels ZTE’s cloud pitch: more power, less cost, smoother upgrades
Systems South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion Funding round comes ahead of planned IPO
Systems Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset Here’s how to cope with the memory pricing squeeze
Systems Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers
Systems Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China’s top AI models Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare
Systems AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles
Systems Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time
Systems SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site 10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup
Systems Explainer: AI-ready servers GPUs and data management is important in an AI push, but don't ignore your legacy kit
Systems Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up
Systems Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more!
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 Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites ‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approval
Systems Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete
Systems Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter
Systems It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands
Systems Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs
Systems Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop
Systems ZTE and Orange Morocco launch Livebox 7, world's first prplOS 4.0 ONT for smart home Livebox 7 brings Morocco’s first prplOS 4.0 ONT, enabling all-scenario smart home experiences
Systems Ayar Labs taps Wiwynn to cram 1,024 GPUs into a photonic rack system Reference design to stitch more than a thousand accelerators into a single enormous server.
Systems ZTE and Whale Cloud jointly showcase digital transformation solutions at MWC Barcelona 2026 ZTE and Whale Cloud showcase AI-ready NaaS and open-standard platforms to help operators accelerate digital transformation and service innovation
Systems AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days Study warns peak cooling demand could strain US water systems by 2030
Systems Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again
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 Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more
Systems Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits
Systems Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia
Systems Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad
Systems China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead
Systems Broadcom says AI companies can’t make their own silicon any time soon Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business
Systems Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all
Systems One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM
Systems Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference
Systems Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters Saves real estate by putting the power on the water
Systems Extreme Co-design, Building the AI Factory: ZTE Unveils Full-Stack AI Infrastructure From vertical scaling to digital twins, ZTE redefines AI infrastructure with end-to-end compute-network and software-hardware co-design
Systems PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought 'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception'
Systems Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid
Systems Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027 Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes
Systems 50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year
Systems Fujitsu taps Broadcom's 3D chip tech for 144-core Monaka CPU Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platform
Systems Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenter
Systems AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this year
Systems HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster
Systems It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon
Systems AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fall
Systems Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost
Systems Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box? As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrand
Systems Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas
Systems Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal Plants expected to begin operations as early as 2028 pending approval by state government
Systems GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years
Systems AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can
Systems Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year
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
Systems AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure
Systems US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory
Systems Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned
Systems OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators
Systems Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story
Systems Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue
Systems Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole
Systems Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now
Systems Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag
Systems Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters
