US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven Systems18 Mar 2024 | 8
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 11
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that Networks15 Mar 2024 | 49
UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year Networks15 Mar 2024 | 51
Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Science14 Mar 2024 | 58
First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex Systems13 Mar 2024 | 6
Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day... Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8
Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom Systems12 Mar 2024 |
Google searches for boss to get grip on climate, energy costs of this AI hype cycle Hyperscalers increasingly looking over shoulders as workloads grow AI + ML12 Mar 2024 | 3
Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in Some simply chop cables in ducts, others pour in petrol and set 'the whole lot alight' Networks12 Mar 2024 | 158
Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8
IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips Workforce aging, systems still mission-critical ... plus Big Blue looking out for its bread and butter On-Prem08 Mar 2024 | 66
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions Systems07 Mar 2024 | 51
Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed It's geeks gone wild Bootnotes06 Mar 2024 | 16
Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country Updated Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries Systems06 Mar 2024 | 53
Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon To detect seismic waves, silly Science06 Mar 2024 | 24
AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments You get a 'sovereign' AI, and you get a 'sovereign' AI, everybody gets a 'sovereign' AI AI + ML05 Mar 2024 | 1
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is Don't hold your breath Systems05 Mar 2024 | 31
Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia AI's appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 1
Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam At least the US Army is thinking about the frogs in those 226 acres of wetland Systems04 Mar 2024 | 8
Ruggedized phone group takes the Bullitt, calls in PWC as administrative receiver Website 404ing, calls to switchboard go dead, 'sad reflection' of how tough it is to make money in smartphones Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 26
Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks Networks04 Mar 2024 |
Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses Worse than having no tech would be having the wrong tech Personal Tech01 Mar 2024 | 22
Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers Updated Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 23
Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13
Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry Systems29 Feb 2024 | 32
Chip fab supplier Applied Materials gets subpoenaed over China sales Updated Comes after US probe into biz's dealings with SMIC Systems28 Feb 2024 | 1
Atos confirms sale talks for datacenter and hosting biz have failed Czech billionaire buyer walks away from ailing Tech Foundations division On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 3
Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 28
Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet Systems27 Feb 2024 | 10
40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13
Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts? Systems26 Feb 2024 | 2
More AI for cell networks as Intel rolls out vRAN platform MWC Plus fresh edge compute system that may be able to run on existing infra Systems26 Feb 2024 |
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes The coasters are making a comeback ... but tech won't be commercially available for some time Storage23 Feb 2024 | 72
Nokia brainwave turns cell towers into cash cows with backup batteries Lower operator energy costs or sell power back to grid for $$$ Networks22 Feb 2024 | 28
EU wants to make undersea internet cables more resilient Threat to data means submarine infrastructures should get status of 'highest possible national significance' Networks22 Feb 2024 | 24
Arm targets AI performance with latest Neoverse Compute Subsystems More and more obvious what a key market ML is for the chip designer Systems21 Feb 2024 | 2
London's famous BT Tower will become a hotel after £275M sale Hello room service? Can you call your provider? The Wi-Fi is down. Hello? Bootnotes21 Feb 2024 | 67
Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM Storage20 Feb 2024 | 60
GlobalFoundries scores $1.5B in Uncle Sam's semiconductor subsidy bonanza Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B Systems20 Feb 2024 | 2
Europe's datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all Space scarcity and soaring build costs send rent through the roof On-Prem20 Feb 2024 | 4
Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach NetCo hoping to eat some of the pie by opening network plumbing to ISPs Networks19 Feb 2024 | 31
Japan's Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026 Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work Networks16 Feb 2024 | 2
IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch Who knows where they'll get the funds for $1B investment plan, though Systems16 Feb 2024 | 4
Out with the old, in with the new as 100 Starlink satellites take atmospheric exit SpaceX doing some spring cleaning to deal with aging models before they fail Networks15 Feb 2024 | 50
Broadcom moves to reassure VMware users as rivals smell an opportunity 'They want a closed shop,' claims service provider Virtualization15 Feb 2024 | 13
ASML sees semiconductor upturn ahead, but China export restrictions are a risk World's only EUV photolithography maker finished 2023 with order backlog worth €39B Systems14 Feb 2024 |
Cruise swerves to hire safety guru after series of misadventures on the streets Robocar company lost license to operate in California AI + ML13 Feb 2024 | 6
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023 Failure rates are consistent with aging – something we can all relate to Storage13 Feb 2024 | 11
HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO Could have been worse – IT giant was asking for five On-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 16
Uncle Sam officially opens funding gates for silicon R&D $5B investment part of $53B bet to reboot semiconductor industry Systems12 Feb 2024 | 1
AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023 Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years Systems09 Feb 2024 | 3
CableMod recalls angled GPU power adapters to prevent fiery surprises Keep your graphics cards safe, people Systems09 Feb 2024 | 11
AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation Personal Tech09 Feb 2024 | 21
5G network slicing finally shown to be more than pipe dream Telcos demonstrate configuration in action at research facility. Now to find customers that want to buy one Networks08 Feb 2024 | 13
You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse It's all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear Storage07 Feb 2024 | 121
TSMC to build second fab in Japan, backed by local investment Plus: SMIC said to be building new lines to make 5nm process chips designed by Huawei Systems07 Feb 2024 | 1
IBM pitches bite-sized $135k LinuxONE box for smaller biz types Fancy a mainframe that runs Linux? You'll need deep pockets Systems06 Feb 2024 | 27
Japan stumps up more cash for Kioxia and Western Digital to make memory chips Pair still looking to merge after SK hynix blocked deal Storage06 Feb 2024 |
US research body sues chip tech company Japan’s government plans to buy The stakes are high because the disputed items - photoresists – are essential for EUV lithography Legal06 Feb 2024 | 4