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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

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

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs

AI + ML05 Dec 2025 | 88

HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch

Hardware bundle ties next-gen accelerators to an Ethernet fabric arriving in 2026

The Future of the Datacenter02 Dec 2025 |

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show

Feature Arm and RISC-V would like a word

Supercomputing Month27 Nov 2025 | 12

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

AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips

Mercury Research blames stockpiling and low-end shortages for unusually flat CPU market

On-Prem14 Nov 2025 | 11

AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security

Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way

Security05 Nov 2025 | 11

Supermicro warns it will miss revenue forecast by a lazy billion bucks or more

Mystery customer wants an upgrade that will take some time

Systems24 Oct 2025 | 2

18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year

New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs

Systems14 Oct 2025 | 7

Bank of England smells hint of dotcom bubble 2.0 in AI froth

UK central bank warns of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks

AI + ML08 Oct 2025 | 55

Stargate is nowhere near big enough to make OpenAI's tie-ups with AMD and Nvidia work

Comment Since revealing Stargate in January, Altman and friends have brought about 200 MW online - they'll need at least 16 GW to claim their red and green prize

AI + ML06 Oct 2025 | 19

OpenAI and AMD link arms for AI buildout: It's a power-for-equity swap

6GW chip pact sends AMD stock soaring, Nvidia has a rival for Altman biz love

Systems06 Oct 2025 | 9

AMD tries to catch CUDA with performance-boosting ROCm 7 software

House of Zen promises 3.5x improvement in inference and 3x uplift in training perf over last-gen software

Systems17 Sep 2025 | 5

SK Hynix cranks up the HBM4 assembly line to prep for next-gen GPUs

Top AI chipmakers count on faster, denser, more efficient memory to boost training

AI + ML12 Sep 2025 | 1

Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected

Research11 Sep 2025 | 4

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says

GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers

Systems29 Aug 2025 | 36

Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs

Sees AI costs rising but not certain revenue will match them

Off-Prem15 Aug 2025 | 11

Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales

Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU

Public Sector11 Aug 2025 | 21

AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports

Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN

Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 |

AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China

Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish

Systems16 Jul 2025 | 4

AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly

Security09 Jul 2025 | 27

Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia

Analysis Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2

Systems08 Jul 2025 | 3

Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads

Analysis Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack

Datacenter Networking Nexus25 Jun 2025 | 2

Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL

Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for

Databases18 Jun 2025 | 7

Rack scale is on the rise, but it's not for everyone... yet

Analysis Still buying B200s and MI300Xs? Don't feel bad, Nvidia and AMD's NVL72 and Helios rack systems aren't really for the enterprise anyway

Systems17 Jun 2025 |

AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030

Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets

European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6

AMD preps rack-scale Helios systems to contend with Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL144

House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4

European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 |

AMD's MI355X is a 1.4 kW liquid-cooled monster built to battle Nvidia's Blackwell

And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack

European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 9

If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight

Systems04 Jun 2025 | 29

The House of Zen joins the co-packaged optics race with Enosemi buy

Analysis Light is faster than copper, which is important with rack scale architecture

Systems30 May 2025 | 2

Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China

Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick

Systems28 May 2025 | 12

China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection

Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon

Systems27 May 2025 | 22

AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips

Computex RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700

AI Infrastructure Month21 May 2025 | 36

AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss

Interview Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training cluster

AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 5

AMD is Ryzen to the SMB occasion with a bundle of baby Epycs

The House of Zen’s low-end enterprise strategy is badge engineering at its best

AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 13

Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese

Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules

AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 22

Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off

AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4

El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production

Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much

AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 10

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

World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

HPC16 Apr 2025 | 7

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

Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM

Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?

Personal Tech27 Feb 2025 | 51

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

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

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 |

Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least

Patches04 Feb 2025 | 75

Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress

Updated Answers on a postcard to what 'Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability' might mean

Patches23 Jan 2025 | 11

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date

OSes14 Jan 2025 | 44

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

Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision

CES It'll all end in tiers

Personal Tech07 Jan 2025 | 55

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

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

AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling

Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory

Systems10 Dec 2024 | 10

Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake

CEO's severance pales in comparison to Musk's billion-dollar Tesla battle

Systems03 Dec 2024 | 7

Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender

From post-Athlon 64 dive into near obscurity to chip market stalwart

Systems27 Nov 2024 | 43

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