2024 sure looks like an exciting year for datacenter silicon Comment Loads of chips from Nvidia, AMD, Intel on the way – and very probably some surprises along the way as well On-Prem02 Jan 2024 | 1
Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China For now Personal Tech28 Dec 2023 | 34
How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip Analysis Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid On-Prem26 Dec 2023 | 60
Why Nvidia and AMD are roasting each other over AI performance claims Analysis My card could beat up your card On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 16
China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA MTT S4000 GPU isn't super-fast, but the 'kilocard cluster' design supporting it looks interesting Systems20 Dec 2023 | 23
US willing to compromise with Nvidia over AI chip sales to China Jensen would rather not play Whac-a-Mole with Huang over every new GPU Systems13 Dec 2023 | 12
When it comes to AMD's latest AI chips, it's follow the money and the memory Kettle Don't expect supply, or prices, to ease until 2025 at the earliest Systems12 Dec 2023 | 7
Dell APJ chief: Industry won't wait for Nvidia H100 Canalys APAC Forum Canalys mostly agrees, but thinks GPU giant still has a way to go Systems07 Dec 2023 |
Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Systems06 Dec 2023 | 6
Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite On-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 22
After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties What was it they say about folks in silicon houses? HPC28 Nov 2023 | 7
Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump Integration woes delay Nvidia's hopes of maintaining grip on Middle Kingdom Systems27 Nov 2023 | 2
Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder Two companies both online when slide was viewed at presentation Systems22 Nov 2023 | 27
Nvidia revenue explodes, led by datacenter products and … InfiniBand? A certain Big Red Communist country looms as a dampener – but not a big one On-Prem22 Nov 2023 | 9
Nvidia intros the 'SuperNIC' – it's like a SmartNIC, DPU or IPU, but more super If you're doing AI but would rather not do InfiniBand, this NIC is for you Networks21 Nov 2023 | 6
Tencent shrugs off effect of US sanctions and says Chinese suppliers will fill GPU gap Ordered enough Nvidia kit to keep evolving its AI and has plans to work around bans On-Prem17 Nov 2023 |
Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs SC23 Calls biz rival 'un-American' for weaving around chip export ban AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 5
HPE and Nvidia offer 'turnkey' supercomputer for AI training SC23 If you can afford it – pricing's not out yet HPC13 Nov 2023 |
Don't worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia's already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya Chips limbo-dance right under Biden's performance limits AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10
UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia 5,448 GraceHopper superchips and 200PFLOPS gets you somewhere in the global public top ten HPC01 Nov 2023 | 25
Desperately seeking GPUs? AWS will let you reserve instances in advance – no refunds Better make sure you really need it on the day. Paid upfront and no modifications to orders allowed AI + ML01 Nov 2023 | 1
Don't feel left out, chip designers. Nvidia's made a chatbot assistant for you, too In the lab, anyway AI + ML01 Nov 2023 |
Voltage Park to deploy $500M worth of Nvidia H100s to milk that AI hype At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year Systems30 Oct 2023 |
Intel's PC chip ship is sinking with Arm-ada on the horizon Opinion That's what happens when you completely misread the market Systems30 Oct 2023 | 84
Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses 'pretty insignificant' Arm PC challenge Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 18
It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI Had to kiss Nvidia's ring to make its vision real Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 16
Uncle Sam orders Nvidia to cease most AI chip sales in China 'immediately' Chipmaker thought it had 30 days to get last few orders out the door Systems24 Oct 2023 | 14
Intel stock stumbles on report Nvidia is building an Arm CPU for PC market AMD also said to be working on an Arm-based PC chip Systems23 Oct 2023 | 62
Biden has brought the ban hammer down on US export of AI chips to China Analysis Datacenter GPUs and some consumer cards now exceed performance limits Systems19 Oct 2023 | 12
Nvidia sells Foxconn on AI factories that turn raw data into profit Or, at least, information that can drive profits anyway AI + ML18 Oct 2023 |
Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia's 'unsustainable' GPUs AI Platform Alliance probably has Jensen Huang in tears...of laughter AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 2
America extends China chip export bans and acts to cut off backdoor exports Chips cunningly designed to be less powerful and evade sanctions look to be in trouble Systems18 Oct 2023 | 6
$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe Cites 'increased operational costs' but whatever they are US gamers aren't impacted Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 10
Look, boss – Nvidia's still cool with staff working from home Plus: Stanford prof tells off industry for making decisions based on anecdotal data Offbeat16 Oct 2023 | 25
Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre And engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas On-Prem14 Oct 2023 | 120
Nvidia's accelerated cadence spells trouble for AMD and Intel's AI aspirations Analysis Or it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work Systems13 Oct 2023 | 10
Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging Systems13 Oct 2023 |
French monopoly cops raid Nvidia office in cloud probe Updated AI accelerator maker suspected of potential anti-competitive tricks CxO28 Sep 2023 | 3
Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030 Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 92
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Offbeat04 Sep 2023 | 15
Now Middle East nations banned from getting top-end Nvidia AI chips While ASML says it can keep selling DUV kit to China through 2023 Systems31 Aug 2023 |
Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips? HPC30 Aug 2023 | 7
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10
Good thing Nvidia makes number-crunching GPUs – it'll need them to count its cash When there's a machine-learning gold rush, make sure you're the one selling the shovels AI + ML24 Aug 2023 | 4
Chinese web giants go on $5B Nvidia shopping spree to fuel AI ambitions In the ML arms race, GPUs are the ammunition AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 4
Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report SoftBank CFO says news of float is imminent, suggests firm will keep a solid chunk On-Prem09 Aug 2023 | 19
Nvidia gives Grace Hopper superchip an HBM3e upgrade – sometime next year 641GB of total memory ought to be enough for anybody (and their LLM) AI + ML09 Aug 2023 | 4
Hikvision, Nvidia named in contract for 'Uyghur detection' Updated GPU giant says you can't stop secondary sales, surveillance gear maker maintains innocence Security31 Jul 2023 | 8
Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions Why are you hitting yourselves? semiconductor CEOs ask Systems17 Jul 2023 | 13
Nvidia's Arm wrestle – from failed acquisition to possibly anchoring IPO Fancy seeing you here Systems12 Jul 2023 | 4
US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China To protect against weapons or economic interests – either way, it's bad news for some vendors Systems28 Jun 2023 | 5
Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake Databases27 Jun 2023 |
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 5
Why can't Nvidia boss Jensen Huang escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky? Opinion Is he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter? AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 8
The challenges Intel faces to compete with TSMC, Samsung Analysis Fabs still need to be built, process tech needs to be proven – and Pat's gotta make it price competitive Systems06 Jun 2023 | 25
Netherlands digital minister smacks down Big Tech over AI regs Many people die in car crashes but we don’t outlaw cars, so bad AI might be OK, says Microsoft Asia president AI + ML06 Jun 2023 | 20
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it Systems02 Jun 2023 | 2
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new Been there, done that, SVP Ram Velaga tells El Reg Networks31 May 2023 | 3
Nvidia to power more supercomputers as AI frenzy kicks in Computex New beasts to take up residence in Israeli and Taiwanese DCs HPC30 May 2023 |