Tobias Mann

Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains

Direct Connect If Lip Bu Tan can't sell you his LLM accelerator, he's more than willing to build yours

On-Prem30 Apr 2025 | 1

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months

AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 11

Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B

Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago

Systems14 Apr 2025 | 13

AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary

Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots

AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18

Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Updated Best after-dinner mint ever

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 56

TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+

What did we learn today, hm?

On-Prem08 Apr 2025 | 28

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so

AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 3

Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes

Analysis Redmond’s not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail

AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 9

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

World War Fee Shock and ore, 北京-style

On-Prem04 Apr 2025 | 127

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission

GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show

AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 31

Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus

Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027

Systems02 Apr 2025 | 10

Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer

AI accelerators to see the light, literally

Networks01 Apr 2025 | 2

Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block

Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder

CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8

Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

Comment Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table

AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 22

Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'

Vision AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...

On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 18

Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO

Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake

AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 3

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried

Comment More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators

AI + ML29 Mar 2025 | 61

TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says ex-Intel boss Gelsinger

Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board

On-Prem28 Mar 2025 | 21

Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting

Comment Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters?

Off-Prem26 Mar 2025 | 45

Schneider Electric pumps $700M into US ops as AI datacenter demand surges

Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit

AI + ML26 Mar 2025 | 1

A closer look at Dynamo, Nvidia's 'operating system' for AI inference

GTC GPU goliath claims tech can boost throughput by 2x for Hopper, up to 30x for Blackwell

Nvidia GTC23 Mar 2025 | 7

Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks

GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute

Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 8

Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs

GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server

Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5

We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it

GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage

Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8

DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ

Hands on How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC

AI + ML16 Mar 2025 | 24

Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan

Restoring x86 giant to its former glory, a job no one will envy

Systems12 Mar 2025 | 18

Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game

Comment When it's all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what's behind the curtain?

Systems12 Mar 2025 | 6

Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators

Plus, startup's inference service makes debut on Hugging Face

On-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4

IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs

Big Blue's legal eagles soar on both sides of the pond

On-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 1

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI

HPC07 Mar 2025 | 37

Intel wins something: Judge tosses out shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses

If you find Chipzilla's financial figures hard to parse, don't worry, it stumped these folks, too

On-Prem06 Mar 2025 | 1

Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus

Desktop family gets chip boost as MacBook Air bags an M4 upgrade, more memory, price cut

Personal Tech05 Mar 2025 | 17

Hey, remember iPads? Those fondleslabs? Apple still does

Air to ship with M3 while base model gets the A16

Personal Tech04 Mar 2025 | 12

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

Three more fabs on the way which will come online just in time for — checks calendar — Donald to leave office

On-Prem04 Mar 2025 | 25

Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says

Comment Shareholders urged to press CTRL-Z on loyal Gelsinger's 'retirement'

On-Prem03 Mar 2025 | 14

Intel slows its roll on $28B Ohio fab expansion, pushing production to 2030s

x86 giant still expects to ramp 18A process tech this year

On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 8

Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China

Accused face up to 20 years in prison

On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 17

AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series

The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP

Systems28 Feb 2025 | 51

Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption

May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent

Nvidia GTC27 Feb 2025 | 9

Like a kid handing in homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its missing financial figures

SMCI had to come up with long-delayed report – or lose its slot on NASDAQ again

On-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 3

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence

AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 72

Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

Comment Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on

AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 10

Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc

On-Prem24 Feb 2025 | 28

Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster

Systems24 Feb 2025 | 3

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Interview Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 4

ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics

It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news

Networks21 Feb 2025 | 6

Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

Comment Reported layoffs suggest R&D functions may be hobbled, fab subsidies also at risk

On-Prem19 Feb 2025 | 79

The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

Interview EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge

AI + ML17 Feb 2025 | 17

This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

Hands on El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box

AI + ML16 Feb 2025 | 47

Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn 'capital of the world' Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024

Dominion Energy already eyeing another 26 GW worth of datacenter demand

On-Prem14 Feb 2025 | 7

Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security

Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches

Networks11 Feb 2025 | 3

Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO

Justin Hotard tapped to replace Pekka Lundmark at the Finnish telco

On-Prem10 Feb 2025 | 8

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint

On-Prem08 Feb 2025 | 46

Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon

20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead

HPC06 Feb 2025 | 7

Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su

Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive

Systems05 Feb 2025 |

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First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B

AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary

Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei – that may cost it $1B+

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes

China hits back at America with retaliatory tariffs, export controls on rare earth minerals

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission

Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus

Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer

Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block

Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'

Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO

Nvidia GPU roadmap confirms it: Moore’s Law is dead and buried

TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says ex-Intel boss Gelsinger

Microsoft walking away from datacenter leases (probably) isn't a sign the AI bubble is bursting

Schneider Electric pumps $700M into US ops as AI datacenter demand surges

A closer look at Dynamo, Nvidia's 'operating system' for AI inference

Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks

Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs

We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it

DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ

Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan

Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone's game

Cerebras to light up datacenters in North America and France packed with AI accelerators

IBM dodges BMC's $1.6B bullet in US as London court slaps down LzLabs

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

Intel wins something: Judge tosses out shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses

Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus

Hey, remember iPads? Those fondleslabs? Apple still does

TSMC promises $100B US expansion that Trump hails without clarifying chip tariff threat

Wanna save Intel? Fire the board, bring back Pat, ex-CEO Craig Barrett says

Intel slows its roll on $28B Ohio fab expansion, pushing production to 2030s

Three charged in Singapore with alleged link to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China

AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series

Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption

Like a kid handing in homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its missing financial figures

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics

Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

Datacenter energy demand in bitbarn 'capital of the world' Virginia nearly doubled in second half of 2024

Yup, AMD's Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security

Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon

Who's afraid of DeepSeek's impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su

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