Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own
Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC
Networks10 Feb 2026 |
Tobias is The Register's datacenter systems editor. His focus is primarily on the hardware and system software powering today's networks and compute resources. Tobias has previously worked as an editor covering SD-WAN and network security, and as a daily news reporter.
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree
TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of course
AI + ML09 Feb 2026 | 3
It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year
With revenue topping $400B for the first time, the Chocolate Factory is at no risk of putting itself in the poor house
Off-Prem05 Feb 2026 | 18
Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin
Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors
A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing
Systems04 Feb 2026 |
Amazon's European datacenter buildout blows a breaker as grid connection wait list hits 7 years
E-commerce giant has watts of bit barns to deploy but nowhere to plug them in
PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2026 | 20
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun
Burning Man woo woo values House of Grok at $250 billion
Offbeat03 Feb 2026 | 107
Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh
Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter
Systems02 Feb 2026 | 5
DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit
NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4
Storage02 Feb 2026 | 21
Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols
Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols
Agentic AI30 Jan 2026 | 16
Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure
All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops
AI + ML29 Jan 2026 | 25
Yes, you can build an AI agent – here's how, using LangFlow
Hands On AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 23
Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore
No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028
Systems27 Jan 2026 | 1
Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power
Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims
Systems26 Jan 2026 | 7
Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued
Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI
Agentic AI26 Jan 2026 | 8
Bill Gates-backed startup aims to revive Moore's Law with optical transistors
Neurophos is developing a massive optical systolic array clocked at 56GHz good for 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute
Systems24 Jan 2026 | 22
Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons
CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2
Systems23 Jan 2026 | 4
AI networking startup Upscale AI scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch
Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year
Networks22 Jan 2026 |
House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass
Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it
Public Sector21 Jan 2026 | 2
Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea
This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right?
AI + ML20 Jan 2026 | 27
Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD
AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.
HPC18 Jan 2026 | 19
Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants
It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction
Public Sector17 Jan 2026 | 36
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon
You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink
Systems15 Jan 2026 |
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal
SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation
Systems15 Jan 2026 | 4
SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble
Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers
Storage13 Jan 2026 | 3
Zuck forms Meta Compute to pave the planet with 'hundreds of gigawatts' of AI datacenters
No wonder he's going nuclear
Off-Prem12 Jan 2026 | 20
Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs
If penicillin was discovered on moldy bread, who's to say the next miracle drug won't be born from AI hallucinations
AI + ML12 Jan 2026 | 7
Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers
Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations
HPC09 Jan 2026 | 22
While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4
Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away
Storage08 Jan 2026 | 10
Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders
Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter
Systems08 Jan 2026 |
AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far
AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch
Systems07 Jan 2026 | 14
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs
NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner
Storage07 Jan 2026 | 15
AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched
New chips same as the old chips
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 11
Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark’s performance since launch
Just maybe not in the way you're thinking
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 1
Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES
Teasing the next generation earlier than usual
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 3
Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s
GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units
Systems31 Dec 2025 | 11
Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong
El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal
Systems31 Dec 2025 | 25
When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight
Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs
AI + ML30 Dec 2025 | 90
AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top?
Hands On Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths
Systems25 Dec 2025 | 11
SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year
Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list
AI + ML22 Dec 2025 | 21
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China
Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing
Systems22 Dec 2025 | 13
Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul
We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg
Storage20 Dec 2025 | 77
All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup
Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year
The Future of the Datacenter17 Dec 2025 | 12
Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own
Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancements
AI + ML16 Dec 2025 | 3
Oracle isn't done with Ampere yet as A4 instances arrive on OCI boasting 96 cores
Big Red said it had sold its stake in its long-time silicon partner last week
PaaS + IaaS15 Dec 2025 | 4
Delays? What delays? Oracle insists its $300B cloud contract with OpenAI is on track
And don't sweat the debt either, we've got plenty of capital at our disposal
The Future of the Datacenter15 Dec 2025 | 7
AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says
The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 73
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can
updated If you opt in to the paid service that is
Systems10 Dec 2025 | 2
Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition
California chipset giant says it’ll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel
The Future of the Datacenter10 Dec 2025 | 4
Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted
US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech
Systems09 Dec 2025 | 27
Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away
Interview Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature’s most amazing design - the brain
The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 | 27
Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold
From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now
The Future of the Datacenter07 Dec 2025 | 8
Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU
re:invent The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years
AWS Re:invent04 Dec 2025 | 7
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches
First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?
Storage03 Dec 2025 | 81
Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI
Re:Invent AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterprise
AWS Re:invent03 Dec 2025 | 13
Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators
Re:Invent Meanwhile, Trainium3 makes its debut promising million-chip training clusters
AWS Re:invent02 Dec 2025 | 4
Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers
You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost?
Systems01 Dec 2025 | 1
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole
hands on $12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging
Systems27 Nov 2025 | 10
Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon
HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 | 11
Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up
Embracing the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units would be easier said than done for The Social Network
AI + ML25 Nov 2025 | 6
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