GPU

With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs

Analysis Google's TPUs might not be on Altman's menu just yet, but he's never been all that picky about hardware

AI + ML01 Jul 2025 | 3

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 |

Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs

Baby got Blackwell GPUs

PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 2

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

CoreWeave signs megalease at Applied Digital's not-so-little house on the prairie

A big win for North Dakota

PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2025 | 2

Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights group

NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws

AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9

Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model

Feature Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency

AI + ML25 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

Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros

Computex Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’

AI Infrastructure Month20 May 2025 | 7

Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally

Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver

Systems20 May 2025 | 9

Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs

Computex One of the two just needs to be made by Nv

AI + ML19 May 2025 |

China launches an AI cloud into orbit. 12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years

Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more

AI + ML19 May 2025 | 14

CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards

Comment An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug out

AI Infrastructure Month16 May 2025 | 5

Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress

Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching you

AI Infrastructure Month15 May 2025 | 25

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

Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports

Ding dong, diffusion is dead

AI Infrastructure Month13 May 2025 | 11

Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests

AI phone home

On-Prem09 May 2025 | 74

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too

Systems08 May 2025 | 20

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

Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love

+Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it?

AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10

Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert

Asus implements droop detector for PCIe slots as GPUs now so heavy they risk toppling out

Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 87

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

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

World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago

Systems16 Apr 2025 | 53

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

UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months

No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network

Datacenter Networking Nexus08 Apr 2025 |

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

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

CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades

That stands for I Probably Overestimated?

AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3

Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators

Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it

AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 3

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

ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads

PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in

HPC13 Mar 2025 | 8

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

CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft

GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center

AI + ML04 Mar 2025 |

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

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

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

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid

On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 12

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

Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age - with itself in the middle

Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements

Networks10 Feb 2025 | 10

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 |

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

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

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

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

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

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