Graphcore makes China push with Mk2 AI chip amid financial woes
It's not clear whether the upstart had to abide by new US chip restrictions
Systems30 Nov 2022 | 2
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Top Senators want controls on US contractors using Chinese chips
Work to with Uncle Sam? Then source your hardware outside of the Middle Kingdom
On-Prem29 Nov 2022 | 11
Intel: The economy is bad right now, but we still need more fabs
x86 giant says it will tweak spending for Ohio, Germany plants based on ‘market needs’
Systems29 Nov 2022 | 5
Race to build India’s first chip plant may be won in 2023
The US chip war on China could give India’s chip-making dreams a boost
Systems28 Nov 2022 |
Intel makes it harder for Gelsinger to earn beaucoup bucks as CEO
Shares have already been moving in the wrong direction for Gelsinger's stock awards
Systems23 Nov 2022 | 9
GPU shipments saw biggest nosedive since noughties recession
A sign of the computer industry’s sad state, but at least there’s supply!
Systems23 Nov 2022 | 13
Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon
Updated Pay for features like SGX through OEMs
Systems22 Nov 2022 | 49
Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit
Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?
Systems21 Nov 2022 | 16
Head of Intel Foundry Services resigns just as chip biz gets going
Exclusive Randhir Thakur led Intel’s big bet to take on Asian foundry giants TSMC and Samsung
Systems21 Nov 2022 | 2
TSMC confirms 3nm fab in Arizona to make neighbor Intel sweat a little more
Analysis Next-gen chip plant could appeal to customers for supply chain, national security reasons
Systems21 Nov 2022 | 5
Nvidia faces lawsuit for melting RTX 4090 cables as AMD has a laugh
Law firm wants class-action status, says issue poses 'serious electrical and fire hazard'
Systems18 Nov 2022 | 59
Nvidia's datacenter growth can't save it from gaming GPU woes
CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues
Systems17 Nov 2022 | 16
Micron double decimates production as sales stall
DRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20%
Systems17 Nov 2022 |
Qualcomm faces fresh competition in world of Arm-based Windows PCs
Comment Let the games begin...
Systems16 Nov 2022 | 10
Chips in space: Reprogrammable AMD AI SoC cleared for liftoff
Team Red believes chip will allow AI inferencing to proliferate in the cosmos
Systems15 Nov 2022 | 2
Cerebras's supercomputer has more cores than world's fastest iron – with a big catch
Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap
HPC15 Nov 2022 | 5
Nvidia bundles enterprise AI software with incoming H100 systems
GPU maker wants more of your money with next wave of servers
Systems14 Nov 2022 |
Intel’s axed Optane biz spurts out mixed bag of new SSDs
Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement
Storage11 Nov 2022 | 12
AMD grows Epyc datacenter share, loses to Intel generally
Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine
Systems10 Nov 2022 | 5
Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash
Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'
AI + ML09 Nov 2022 | 10
Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC
x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory
Systems09 Nov 2022 | 13
China conflicts prompt chip manufacturing battles in Europe
Germany blocks sale of fab to Chinese firm, Taiwan's investments challenged in Lithuania
Systems08 Nov 2022 | 6
This startup reckons its chiplet interconnect tech can best Intel, TSMC
If Eliyan’s designs work, this could lower reliance on Asia for chip manufacturing
Systems08 Nov 2022 | 6
Think Korean chipmakers will buy Arm? Think again
The UK chip designer is suing another firm that has an interest, so IPO it is?
Systems07 Nov 2022 | 6
Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen
Analysis To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose
Systems05 Nov 2022 | 30
AMD’s latest, greatest Radeon graphics card $600 cheaper than Nvidia’s top RTX 4090
Chiplet-based RNDA 3 GPU fans have been waiting for
Personal Tech03 Nov 2022 | 20
Some American techies can still work for Chinese chipmakers, turns out
But if you authorize or handle delivery of factory kit – or service it – you're out
On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 3
AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000
They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter
Systems02 Nov 2022 | 10
Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter
PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months
On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |
After spate of delays, Intel promises Sapphire Rapids Xeons for early 2023
x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips
Systems01 Nov 2022 | 4
Qualcomm: Arm threatens to end CPU licensing, charge device makers instead
Analysis Snapdragon giant warns of dramatic shift in business model
Systems01 Nov 2022 | 59
For its big comeback, Intel needs to spend money – and it's making less and less of it
Analysis The party's over and the pain begins
Systems29 Oct 2022 | 18
TSMC wants to unleash a flood of chiplet designs with 3DFabric Alliance
Good for AMD and Apple? Now let's make it easier for everyone, Taiwanese chipmaker says
Systems28 Oct 2022 |
Gelsinger takes ax to Intel after chip sales slump, profit nosedives
Staff, products on the chopping block to save billions annually
Systems28 Oct 2022 | 31
Vodafone's software-defined silicon bet signals a biz model shakeup
It's not through Intel, which remains quiet on plans to enable chip features via code
Networks27 Oct 2022 | 7
This credit card-sized PC board can use an Intel Core i7
Or an eight-core AMD Ryzen. Not made for personal use, but what's stopping you?
On-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 83
Chinese chipmaker workers told to sleep at their factories
'Closed loop' ordered to keep fabs and manufacturing plants running amid COVID-19 outbreaks
On-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 22
Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer
This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer
On-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 4
China seems to have figured out how to make 7nm chips despite US sanctions
Foiled again, Team America
On-Prem22 Jul 2022 | 71
US warns losing access to Taiwanese chips could break the economy
Stark warning of a 'deep and immediate recession' if China takes over
Systems21 Jul 2022 | 12
Boffins release tool to decrypt Intel microcode. Have at it, x86 giant says
Peek behind the curtain to see SGX implemented, Spectre mitigated, and more
Research20 Jul 2022 | 18
What recession? Chipmaking kit supplier ASML hits record orders
But supply issues are forcing the lithography system giant to defer revenue past 2022
Systems20 Jul 2022 |
British boffins make touchless computing tech on the cheap
No special hardware, internet connection, or cloud service needed, just a regular CPU and webcam
Personal Tech19 Jul 2022 | 30
You can liquid cool this Linux laptop to let the GPU soar
Or to make the fans shut up. Either way, you won’t be moving much with this setup
Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 36
Intel’s first discrete GPUs won't be a home run
Comment High-end Arc A750 will compete with *checks notes* a GeForce RTX 3060
Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 36
Intel tried selling software before. Will it succeed this time?
Analysis After offloading McAfee and Wind River, the x86 giant is building a commercial software business again
Software18 Jul 2022 | 22
Intel plans chip price hikes due to 'inflationary pressures'
Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October
Systems14 Jul 2022 | 12
Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace
Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch
PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |
Intel axes Nvidia-powered NUC X15 laptops for Arc GPU reseller push
Soon enough, you won't have to turn to a large PC vendor to buy an Arc laptop
Personal Tech13 Jul 2022 | 3
Here's one way past Moore's law: Chips that mix photonics and electronics
Boffins see promise in optoelectronic accelerators running faster with less energy than traditional components
Systems13 Jul 2022 | 14
Intel, Accenture put bow on open-source AI kits to push adoption
Think ML is hard to implement? That excuse is getting harder to make as you avoid the rush
Systems12 Jul 2022 | 1
To fight TSMC and Samsung, Intel hires execs from foundry rivals
x86 giant wants to manufacture more of the world’s chips, regardless of whether it designs them
Systems11 Jul 2022 | 4
Intel hits another speed bump with delayed Mobileye IPO
Analysis No biggie, it was only supposed to help fund a big manufacturing expansion
AI + ML11 Jul 2022 |
America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers
Why screw around writing Verilog when you can earn tons more with Python, Java or Go?
Systems08 Jul 2022 | 51
The return of GPUs on sale may be tech world's monkey's paw of 2022
Comment Improved supply is welcome – too bad it may be the harbinger of a cooling economy
Personal Tech07 Jul 2022 | 14
Has Intel gone too far with its Ohio fab 'delay' stunt?
Comment With construction unceremoniously underway, x86 giant may have overplayed its hand
Systems06 Jul 2022 | 17
Elon Musk’s brother buys Intel’s fireworks-replacing drone biz
Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses
Personal Tech05 Jul 2022 | 13
US expands efforts to hamstring China’s chipmaking mojo
Beijing can't get next-gen lithography gear, America now trying to block sales of older machines
Systems05 Jul 2022 | 19
One of the first RISC-V laptops may ship in September, has an NFT hook
A notebook with an RV SoC is cool enough. Did we really need the Web3 jargon?
Personal Tech01 Jul 2022 | 25
Meta: We need 5x more GPUs to combat TikTok, stat
Comment And 30% fewer new engineers this year
AI + ML30 Jun 2022 | 31
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