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Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

World War Fee Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! Maybe a struggling stock market and Beijing hinting about 'countermeasures' helped?

Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 101

Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management'

Hyperscaler says there's no decrease in demand, it's just looking for good deals

Systems22 Apr 2025 | 4

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit

AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 33

TSMC prepping for tariff turmoil, denies joint venture talks with Intel

Chip contract manufacturer not immune to 'uncertainties and risks' caused by Trump's import taxes

Systems17 Apr 2025 |

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

ASML hits targets but orders sag as Trump trolls markets

Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters

Systems16 Apr 2025 | 3

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 joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months

AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 11

Intel flogs off majority stake in Altera to private equity for $4B

Buy high, sell low: FPGA biz cost x86 giant $16B decade ago

Systems14 Apr 2025 | 13

Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal

Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!

Systems14 Apr 2025 | 2

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank

CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121

Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins

Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 13

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting

Systems10 Apr 2025 | 80

Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records

Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside

Public Sector10 Apr 2025 | 33

Commercial space station outfit plans two Orbital Data Center nodes by the end of 2025

Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE

Systems09 Apr 2025 | 13

Microsoft puts $1B US datacenter builds on hold amid AI, tariff uncertainty

World War Fee Committed $80B capex for DCs as recently as January. We wonder what changed?

Systems09 Apr 2025 | 9

IBM's z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance

Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs)

Systems08 Apr 2025 | 10

Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way

Opinion We're on a roadmap to nowhere. Come on inside

Columnists07 Apr 2025 | 31

US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land

But analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains

Systems04 Apr 2025 | 8

China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too

Probably still behind western rivals, but improved GPU and higher core count can’t hurt

Systems04 Apr 2025 | 27

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How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

Can't run Windows 11? Don't want to? There are surprisingly legal options

America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside

Opinion The CVE system nearly dying shows that someone has lost the plot

Bug hunter tricked SSL.com into issuing cert for Alibaba Cloud domain in 5 steps

10 other certificates 'were mis-issued and have now been revoked'

Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days

It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets

ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

Sam says it's Son's money well spent

Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals

This is not just any 'cyber incident' … this is an M&S 'cyber incident'

Retailer tight-lipped on details as digital hiccup disrupts customer orders

ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations

Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

Opinion I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous

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Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs

Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs

Systems03 Apr 2025 | 15

System builders say server prices set to spike as Trump plays customs cowboy

Tariff moves threaten supply chain stability

On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 38

Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus

Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027

Systems02 Apr 2025 | 10

Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat

Updated CEO hails 'transformative year' as IPO puts 'puter maker on the big board

Systems02 Apr 2025 | 39

Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz Alphawave

Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop

Systems02 Apr 2025 | 4

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

Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block

Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder

CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8

Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake

Comment Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table

AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 22

Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough

Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending

Systems01 Apr 2025 | 91

Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO

Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake

AI + ML31 Mar 2025 | 3

CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades

That stands for I Probably Overestimated?

AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3

Dems dub Trump cuts to chip export controls a 'gift' to Xi and Putin

Concerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job

Systems27 Mar 2025 | 21

Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment

Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat

Systems27 Mar 2025 | 3

US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members

Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies

HPC26 Mar 2025 | 5

Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing

Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty

Systems20 Mar 2025 | 12

SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing

Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market

On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 5

Interview: Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP and GM of Data Center Business, Micron

A discussion on scaling the datacenter with the company’s AI memory and storage portfolio

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Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware

Updated Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work

Systems19 Mar 2025 | 31

Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects

Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL

Systems19 Mar 2025 | 2

Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech

GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on

Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1

Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market

Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way

Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4

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

Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip

GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work

Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 49

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

Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data

GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway

Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2

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

Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions

Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 107

Intel's new CEO: Chip world veteran Lip-Bu Tan

Restoring x86 giant to its former glory, a job no one will envy

Systems12 Mar 2025 | 18

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

Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050

AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all

Systems12 Mar 2025 | 16

Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon

Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65

Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on

Nothing says 'sustainable AI' like the burps of Appalachian industry

Systems11 Mar 2025 | 9

ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China

Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field

Systems10 Mar 2025 | 30

eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank

Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI

OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23

Trump says US should kill CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt

Updated Lemme guess ... he'll fix it all with tariffs? We sat through the entire speech so you don't have to

Systems05 Mar 2025 | 158

As Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU, Beijing throws its weight behind ISA

A major policy directive strongly suggesting use of the royalty-free architecture is apparently imminent

Systems05 Mar 2025 | 15

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

Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time

Executives pull on the baggy trousers to distribute the pink slips

Systems28 Feb 2025 | 22

Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory

Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing

Systems27 Feb 2025 | 2

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

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Updated OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware

OSes24 Feb 2025 | 128

Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster

Systems24 Feb 2025 | 3

Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system

Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims

On-Prem20 Feb 2025 | 14

Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors

Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table

Systems20 Feb 2025 | 12

The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

Interview EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge

AI + ML17 Feb 2025 | 17

UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay

'Satisfied' the risk to national security is 'a real and significant one' that should not be 'prolonged'

Systems17 Feb 2025 | 24

TechUK demands that Britain's chip strategy is crisped up

Trade body wants recommendations fast-tracked and fabs designated critical national infrastructure

Systems17 Feb 2025 | 9

Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz

Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee

Systems17 Feb 2025 | 16

The hidden cost of compromise

Why scientific computing still demands precision

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DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models

Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable

AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 10

Intel loses another exec as datacenter, AI chief named Nokia CEO

Justin Hotard tapped to replace Pekka Lundmark at the Finnish telco

On-Prem10 Feb 2025 | 8

Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon

20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead

HPC06 Feb 2025 | 7

Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below

Systems05 Feb 2025 | 3

US cranks up espionage charges against ex-Googler accused of trade secrets heist

Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare

AI + ML05 Feb 2025 | 15

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 knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024

Missed the AI processor boat, split with CEO savior, lost #1 seat to Samsung

Systems04 Feb 2025 | 5

Intel rakes in €515M from EU after ancient antitrust fine nixed

A glimmer of light in an otherwise gloomy year for troubled chipmaker

Systems03 Feb 2025 | 14

Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs

Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand

AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 15

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

DeepSeek means companies need to consider AI investment more carefully

Analysis But Chinese startup shakeup doesn't herald 'drastic drop' in need for infrastructure buildout, say analysts

Systems31 Jan 2025 | 21

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

Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say

Not bad for 30 lines of code

Systems29 Jan 2025 | 66

ASML makes hay while Sun shines, but Trump could rain on its parade

Netherlands biz riding AI boom, though China crackdown looms

Systems29 Jan 2025 | 21

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

No wonder OpenAI needs $500B for Stargate

Systems28 Jan 2025 | 271

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

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

Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10%

At $25.91M, CEO is worth 261 employees

Systems24 Jan 2025 | 2

First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works

28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in

Systems24 Jan 2025 | 20

Intel pitches modular PC designs to make repairs less painful

x86 behemoth calls the approach 'innovative' - DIY builders may disagree

Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 117

China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies

Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors

Systems17 Jan 2025 | 10

TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in 'volume production' by 2026

You've got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips

Systems16 Jan 2025 | 3

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

With AI boom in full force, 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record

Fewer giant contracts, but many more smaller ones, in bit barn feeding frenzy

Systems14 Jan 2025 | 2

Intel’s datacenter architecture boss and Xeon lead jumps to Qualcomm

Sailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon?

Systems14 Jan 2025 | 1

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 snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions

'New rule threatens to squander America's hard-won technological advantage' says GPU supremo

Systems13 Jan 2025 | 23

TSMC revenue booms and you don’t need AI to figure out why

Asia In Brief PLUS: China plans unified APIs; Singapore lets Police run scam victims’ bank accounts; Fujitsu now too cool for aircon

Systems12 Jan 2025 | 6

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

Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast

CES D-Wave, Rigetti, others plummet nearly 50% after Huang says the obvious

On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 23

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

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