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
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.
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 | 12
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
HPE scores $931M contract to make DoD’s cloud migration a little less public
Works like a public cloud but keeps everything on-prem
Public Sector25 Nov 2025 | 7
Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream
Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK
Science24 Nov 2025 | 10
Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI
SC25 With power in such short supply, every watt counts
SC2522 Nov 2025 | 17
Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title
SC25 Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt
SC2521 Nov 2025 | 3
SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions
SC25 Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference
SC2520 Nov 2025 | 3
Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI
Interview Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing
SC2518 Nov 2025 | 14
Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run
SC25 EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year
SC2517 Nov 2025 | 3
Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab
Exclusive Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters?
SC2516 Nov 2025 | 3
Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Interview Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory
Supercomputing Month15 Nov 2025 | 21
Memory boom-bust cycle booms again as Samsung reportedly jacks memory prices 60%
Leaving buyers to cry, AI AI AI
On-Prem14 Nov 2025 | 26
Baidu answers China's call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators
Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems
AI + ML13 Nov 2025 | 1
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place
Systems13 Nov 2025 | 28
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft
Microsoft internal financials also suggest AI flag bearer is nowhere close to $13 billion in revenues
AI + ML12 Nov 2025 | 26
Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans
We can't let supply chain shortages burst the bubble boy's balloon
AI + ML10 Nov 2025 | 39
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off
Off-Prem08 Nov 2025 | 69
Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize
Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 6
Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 11
Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks
Some clever networking hacks open the door
AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 2
Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters
Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit
Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 28
NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind
The one chip startup building accelerators for something other than AI boasts performance up 10x that of modern GPUs using a fraction the power
Supercomputing Month22 Oct 2025 | 2
Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%
It's not the size of your accelerator, it's how you use it
AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 8
Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO's claims of Chinese split
The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company
Systems20 Oct 2025 | 11
Nvidia still needs Taiwan even as TSMC ramps Blackwell production in Arizona
AI arms dealer relies on Taiwanese advanced packaging plants for top-specced GPUs
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 |
Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster
Deal keeps debt off Social Media empire's books
On-Prem17 Oct 2025 | 23
Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors
Now they just need to get regulatory approval
Networks17 Oct 2025 | 39
TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab
CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor
Systems16 Oct 2025 | 3
Decomposed dinosaurs make Texas a top destination for AI bit barns
Datacenter hopefuls looking to cash in on AI craze are setting up shop in Lone Star State in search of cheap power
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 28
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