Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this year
Systems14 Feb 2026 | 29
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Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM
Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 2
AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze
Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructure
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 3
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters
Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National Laboratory
Systems13 Feb 2026 | 14
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales
This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned
Systems13 Feb 2026 |
OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators
Systems12 Feb 2026 | 7
Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill
Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story
Systems12 Feb 2026 | 8
Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China
Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue
Systems11 Feb 2026 | 25
Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer
FOSDEM 2026 If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?
Personal Tech11 Feb 2026 | 57
Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack
Great time to be a liquid cooling startup
Systems11 Feb 2026 | 4
Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency
Someday
Science10 Feb 2026 | 14
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere
Moving 40% of semiconductor production to America is 'impossible' says vice premier
Systems09 Feb 2026 | 56
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar
Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth
Systems09 Feb 2026 | 13
Netlife Ecuador partners with ZTE to advance smart cloud platform deployment and accelerate smart home innovation
Commercial rollout boosts after-sales efficiency and strengthens smart home security
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Curse of AI to push up PC prices as memory and CPU shortages bite
Component supply is being diverted toward datacenters, squeezing the consumer market
Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 20
AI’s lust for memory drags down the smartphone industry, and Qualcomm with it
On the upside, House of the Snapdragon has started shipping its own AI silicon
Personal Tech05 Feb 2026 | 9
Positron: we don’t need no fancy HBM to compete with Nvidia’s Rubin
Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5
Server CPUs join memory in the supply shortage, pushing up prices
Silicon manufacturing issues to blame
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 8
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters
Single customer accounted for 63 percent of surging revenue
Systems04 Feb 2026 | 5
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors
A diverse portfolio is usually a good thing, except when AI is the only thing
Systems04 Feb 2026 |
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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
The software doesn't show what files it's working on
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ
Infosec in Brief PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
Who, Me? 02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky job
Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative
Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
opinion The subtractive bias we're ignoring
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down
ai-pocalypse But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station
Bork!Bork!Bork! It must be that fresh mountain air
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?
What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs
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Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh
Chipzilla touts 4 TB of DDR5 and 128 lanes of PCIe 5 for less than the House of Zen just in time for memory winter
Systems02 Feb 2026 | 5
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
Who, Me? Love hurts, but being exposed is more painful
On-Prem02 Feb 2026 | 105
Microsoft investors sweat cloud giant's OpenAI exposure
All the promises in the world won't pay the GPU bills when the music stops
AI + ML29 Jan 2026 | 25
How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies
Feature You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 5
Micron continues fab spending spree with $24B NAND storage plant in Singapore
No salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028
Systems27 Jan 2026 | 1
Microsoft's Maia 200 promises Blackwell levels of performance for two-thirds the power
Inference-optimized chip 30% cheaper than any other AI silicon on the market today, Azure's Scott Guthrie claims
Systems26 Jan 2026 | 7
Bill Gates-backed startup aims to revive Moore's Law with optical transistors
Neurophos is developing a massive optical systolic array clocked at 56GHz good for 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute
Systems24 Jan 2026 | 22
Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45%
Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide
Systems23 Jan 2026 | 11
Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons
CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2
Systems23 Jan 2026 | 4
Former crypto-mining company building 430 MW datacenter in secret location for secret client
Keeps location under wraps after communities opposed past projects
Systems23 Jan 2026 | 8
AI networking startup Upscale AI scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch
Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year
Networks22 Jan 2026 |
Anthropic CEO: Selling H200s to China is like giving nukes to North Korea
This is totally not because China is giving away its best models away for free, right?
AI + ML20 Jan 2026 | 27
Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8bn chip plant purchase
Taiwan’s Powerchip sells legacy fab it opened just 19 months ago after spending $9.5 billion
Systems20 Jan 2026 | 8
Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD
AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.
HPC18 Jan 2026 | 19
TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years
2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises
AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 7
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon
You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink
Systems15 Jan 2026 |
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red
Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.
Systems15 Jan 2026 | 33
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal
SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation
Systems15 Jan 2026 | 4
China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware
Hasn’t revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy
AI + ML15 Jan 2026 | 9
Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power
Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assume
Systems14 Jan 2026 | 11
Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets
Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you
Storage14 Jan 2026 | 11
Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue
America first, for sales and access to foundries
Public Sector14 Jan 2026 | 15
Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows
Could be back to 2016 levels
Systems13 Jan 2026 | 7
Lenovo has a hunch you’re about to try quitting VMware
Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them
Virtualization13 Jan 2026 | 6
PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory
High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting
Systems12 Jan 2026 | 11
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age
Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware
Systems12 Jan 2026 | 110
Pay and pray: Nvidia reportedly wants money up front for Chinese H200 orders
Beijing could green-light sales to select customers as soon as this quarter
Systems08 Jan 2026 |
AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far
AMD boasts 1000x higher AI perf by 2027 and pulls the lid off Helios compute tray ahead of 2H 2026 launch
Systems07 Jan 2026 | 14
Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs
Who can lift a 77-pound box into the overhead?
Systems07 Jan 2026 | 20
Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike
Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the cold
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 22
Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks
Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 105
AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched
New chips same as the old chips
Systems06 Jan 2026 | 11
Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark’s performance since launch
Just maybe not in the way you're thinking
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 1
Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES
Teasing the next generation earlier than usual
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 3
Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips
Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far
Systems05 Jan 2026 | 13
Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity
The AI era needs more juice
Systems02 Jan 2026 | 3
Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s
GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units
Systems31 Dec 2025 | 11
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
Feature The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
Networks31 Dec 2025 | 241
Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong
El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal
Systems31 Dec 2025 | 25
Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer
The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday
Systems29 Dec 2025 | 20
Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try
Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future
Systems29 Dec 2025 | 40
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
US punishes China’s ‘dominance’ of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs
World War Fee President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027
Public Sector24 Dec 2025 | 42
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China
Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing
Systems22 Dec 2025 | 13
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last?
Total operational capacity just keeps rising
Systems22 Dec 2025 | 3
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing
How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers
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Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future
Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply
Systems18 Dec 2025 | 16
Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists
Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google
AI + ML17 Dec 2025 | 11
India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64
No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride
Systems17 Dec 2025 | 48
Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm
And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models
Software16 Dec 2025 | 2
Intel hires ex-Trump fixer as Washington whisperer
But when will Chipzilla bring back will.i.am?
Systems16 Dec 2025 | 7
Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3
IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I
The Future of the Datacenter15 Dec 2025 | 6
Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO
Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come
Systems12 Dec 2025 | 6
Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties
Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China
Systems11 Dec 2025 | 3
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can
updated If you opt in to the paid service that is
Systems10 Dec 2025 | 2
Intel Core Ultra Processors: Powering business-ready AI PCs
A one-stop hub of practical resources for IT teams exploring AI-enabled laptop refresh strategies
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Cutting through the noise on AI PCs with Intel Core Ultra
What changes for battery life, security, and real-world productivity when AI moves onto the laptop
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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
Reimagining HCI with StorPool and Oracle: a smarter path to modernization
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Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US
As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US
Systems09 Dec 2025 | 5
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut
Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits
Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 29
Modernizing hyperconverged infrastructure: how StorPool and Oracle are changing the game
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HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge
Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now
Systems05 Dec 2025 | 2
Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike
Exclusive Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite
Systems04 Dec 2025 | 16
HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware
IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona
Virtualization03 Dec 2025 | 10
Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam
Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML
Systems03 Dec 2025 | 14
Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers
You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost?
Systems01 Dec 2025 | 1
SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate
Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares
Systems28 Nov 2025 | 16
GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are
Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce
Supercomputing Month28 Nov 2025 | 38
Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole
hands on $12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging
Systems27 Nov 2025 | 10
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
TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel
Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation
Legal27 Nov 2025 | 14
The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC
Feature From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 | 6
Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift as PC sales stall
Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze
Systems26 Nov 2025 | 43
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions
Feature Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 | 1
Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges
Taskforce calls UK the priciest place on Earth to build nuclear projects and urges radical regulatory reset
The Future of the Datacenter25 Nov 2025 | 28
OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent by mid-2026
Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring
Off-Prem24 Nov 2025 | 8
Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino
Updated But the Wiring folks were disenchanted even before Qualcomm swallowed Arduino
Systems21 Nov 2025 | 66
Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters
It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum
The Future of the Datacenter21 Nov 2025 | 10
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