China sticks antitrust probe into Google amid retaliation for Trump import tariffs
Updated Plus, Middle Kingdom announces levies and export controls of its own
Software04 Feb 2025 | 14
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Not even Nvidia's Jensen Huang can talk President Tariffs out of chip import taxes
GPU giant could just wait eight minutes for Donald to change his mind
AI + ML04 Feb 2025 | 28
US senator wants to slap prison term, $1M fine on anyone aiding Chinese AI with ... downloads?
As UK proposes laws against neural-nets-for-pedophiles
AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 42
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter
Comment But it still has a chance at the network edge and the PC
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond01 Feb 2025 | 38
Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons
Imagine burning through $72B in one year. Did it make Sam Altman the CEO already?
On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 52
Want Intel in your Surface? That’ll be $400 extra, says Microsoft
Makes you wonder, how bad could Windows-on-Arm really be?
Personal Tech30 Jan 2025 | 47
HPE's $14B Juniper takeover slams into Dept of Justice roadblock
Merger would kill competition, jack up wireless LAN prices, officials argue
Systems30 Jan 2025 | 5
DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?
Analysis Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims
AI + ML30 Jan 2025 | 32
Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say
Not bad for 30 lines of code
Systems29 Jan 2025 | 66
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs
No wonder OpenAI needs $500B for Stargate
Systems28 Jan 2025 | 271
DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3
Crouching tiger, hidden layer(s)
AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 24
Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures
Updated Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe
Nvidia GTC27 Jan 2025 | 8
China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC
Hands on El Reg digs its claws into Middle Kingdom's latest chain of thought model
AI + ML26 Jan 2025 | 120
Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts
Can't keep the drama Llama out of this race
On-Prem24 Jan 2025 | 75
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course
Systems24 Jan 2025 | 35
Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent
Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon
Science22 Jan 2025 | 30
Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3
Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch?
AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 68
Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?
Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers
Nvidia GTC20 Jan 2025 | 26
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Nvidia GTC17 Jan 2025 | 11
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer
System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems
HPC16 Jan 2025 | 23
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters
Bubble? What bubble?
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 11
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters
Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race?
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper
Export controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU
AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 78
HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers
That's Cray cray
HPC14 Jan 2025 | 28
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet
Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s
Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
Biden said to weigh global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz
updated China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam's favor
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 8
Additional Microprocessors Decoded: Quick guide to what AMD is flinging out next for AI PCs, gamers, business
CES Plus: A peek at Nvidia's latest hype
Systems08 Jan 2025 | 3
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC
CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu
AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 9
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit
comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI
AI + ML06 Jan 2025 | 30
How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
Feature If they're not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is
On-Prem04 Jan 2025 | 72
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail
Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push
Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push
We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further
AI + ML27 Dec 2024 | 46
Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US
Unspecified "vendor technology" to blame for hour-long stop order
Software24 Dec 2024 | 20
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial
Analysis The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round
Legal23 Dec 2024 | 15
AI's rising tide lifts all chips as AMD Instinct, cloudy silicon vie for a slice of Nvidia's pie
Analyst estimates show growing apetite for alternative infrastructure
Systems23 Dec 2024 | 8
Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic
Comment It's not just one hyperbolic billionaire – the entire industry is chasing the AI dragon
Systems19 Dec 2024 | 174
Nvidia upgrades tiny Jetson Orin Nano dev kits for the holidays
'Super' edition promises 67 TOPS and 102GB/s of memory bandwidth for your GenAI projects
Systems17 Dec 2024 | 14
Just how deep is Nvidia's CUDA moat really?
Analysis Not as impenetrable as you might think, but still more than Intel or AMD would like
Systems17 Dec 2024 | 34
SoftBank pledges to pour $100B into US, create 100,000 jobs in Trump's second term
Details? Who needs 'em! But AI seems a likely focus
AI + ML17 Dec 2024 | 50
Jury trial kicks off Arm's wrestling match with Qualcomm
The Nuvia buyer's alleged violations of license terms expected to last through Friday
Legal16 Dec 2024 | 11
Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding
Hands on Sometimes two models really are faster than one
AI + ML15 Dec 2024 | 39
Intel execs discuss the possibility of spinning off foundry
'Does it ever fully separate? I think that's an open question for another day,' interim co-CEO says
Systems13 Dec 2024 | 11
Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom
Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use
Systems12 Dec 2024 | 10
Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating
Finance house finds x86 giant's lack of strategy disturbing
Systems11 Dec 2024 | 8
US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron
Funding to support development of memory vendor's $125B fab expansion in New York and Idaho
Systems11 Dec 2024 | 9
Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race
Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility
AI + ML05 Dec 2024 | 10
Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI
Facebook titan targets early 2030s for reactor deployment
Off-Prem04 Dec 2024 | 26
RISC-V's AI champion just scored $693M cash infusion
Architecture may be good for more than cut-rate SoCs and high-volume microcontrollers after all
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 5
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
Re:Invent Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models
Systems03 Dec 2024 | 5
Biden administration bars China from buying HBM chips critical for AI accelerators
Updated 140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist
Storage03 Dec 2024 | 7
Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel
Comment At least he'll have company as he joins 15K colleagues headed for the door
Systems02 Dec 2024 | 46
AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point
SC24 Ayar Labs contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat
The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond28 Nov 2024 | 6
Nvidia's dominance on the Green500 faces challenges from AMD – and itself
SC24 Blackwell's weaker FP64 performance could give the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators a leg up in future efficiency benchmarks
Systems22 Nov 2024 | 1
Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW
SC24 You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too
HPC18 Nov 2024 | 6
Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC
SC24 GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery
AI + ML18 Nov 2024 |
LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
SC24 Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view
HPC18 Nov 2024 | 11
LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform
SC24 System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing
HPC18 Nov 2024 | 1
Datacenters line up for 750MW of Oklo's nuclear-waste-powered small reactors
Out with the old, in with the nucleus ... if ever finished
On-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 15
Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt
Don't worry, existing users have another year to use 'em or lose 'em
Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 2
Biting the hand that feeds IT
