China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker Systems07 Nov 2025 | 7
Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy On-Prem07 Nov 2025 | 42
Why the future of the datacenter is the infrastructure operating system Partner Content From bolt-on chaos to built-in AI: Infrastructure with no assembly required Partner Content
Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 3
AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers Systems05 Nov 2025 | 4
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 admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now Can’t rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects Systems05 Nov 2025 | 4
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AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter Sponsored Feature
Cisco suggests a stubby chassis, shrunken servers and router, to tame the edge 'Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server On-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 12
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world Opinion Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed AI + ML03 Nov 2025 | 141
Datacenter biz and nuke startup join forces for Texas AI ranch The bit barn will run on gas power first. Systems31 Oct 2025 | 1
There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors Offbeat30 Oct 2025 | 26
DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage Updated We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time Off-Prem30 Oct 2025 | 38
Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive Software30 Oct 2025 | 18
AI is making Google and Meta even stronger and richer So they’re increasing spending on infrastructure to keep it that way AI + ML30 Oct 2025 | 14
Nvidia pitches Omniverse DSX as model for gigawatt-scale AI factories GPU giant teams with partners to create digital twin blueprint for next-gen datacenters Systems29 Oct 2025 | 1
Bolt Graphics unveils Zeus GPU built on RISC-V and path tracing tech Ubuntu Summit Onboard cores use a Linux stack based on Ubuntu Systems29 Oct 2025 | 9
Cloud's new performance leader: Arm beats x86 AWS's Arm Neoverse-based Graviton4 chips set a new bar, beating AMD and Intel in performance and price-performance Signal65 benchmarks Partner Content
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship
Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy
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Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software Opinion Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners
Qualcomm announces AI accelerators and mysterious racks they’ll run in House of the Snapdragon promises – without much detail – this kit will enable coolly efficient inferencing PaaS + IaaS28 Oct 2025 | 1
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
Intel says server CPUs will be hot again – in a good way, to power AI workloads – any year now Chipzilla returns to profit and suggests customers are primed to sign for foundry services once it nails 18A process Systems24 Oct 2025 | 6
IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead Infra revenue soars and AI helps everything … except the share price Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 11
TI CEO says some customers still wary of Trump's import tax roulette Company shares lost value on slow-than-expected sales Systems22 Oct 2025 | 3
Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators AI power demands drive operators to repurpose aircraft parts amid gas turbine shortages Systems22 Oct 2025 | 64
Nexperia drama intensifies as Dutch chipmaker denies ousted CEO's claims of Chinese split The government in the Netherlands has taken control of the company Systems20 Oct 2025 | 11
Turns out the end of Windows 10 is good for something: The PC refresh cycle Operating system's D-day resuscitates flatlining computer sector Personal Tech17 Oct 2025 | 72
Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia Beijing blocks exports after Netherlands imposes special measures on Chinese-owned chipmaker Systems17 Oct 2025 | 20
TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor Systems16 Oct 2025 | 3
The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future Feature The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative Storage16 Oct 2025 | 9
Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia’s Grace CPUs No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet Systems16 Oct 2025 |
ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders Systems15 Oct 2025 | 5
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
Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15 Systems13 Oct 2025 | 13
Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator Systems13 Oct 2025 | 5
China probes Qualcomm's Autotalks deal amid rising US trade tensions Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently Systems13 Oct 2025 | 1
Dutch government puts Nexperia on a short leash over chip security fears Minister invokes powers to stop firm shifting knowledge to China, citing governance shortcomings Systems13 Oct 2025 | 15
Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise Opinion Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says Systems13 Oct 2025 | 26
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher Supercomputing Month13 Oct 2025 | 7
China moves to extend control over tech industry's critical rare earths New laws restrict goods that are manufactured outside of China Systems09 Oct 2025 | 9
Panther Lake sets stage for Intel's 2 nm comeback, but many details still TBD Notebook chip promises 8 to 16 cores and up to 180 TOPS of total AI performance when it hits shelves in January Systems09 Oct 2025 | 7
SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams Japanese tech goliath gets grabby with industrial automation as ABB shelves spin-off plans AI + ML09 Oct 2025 | 8
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
Qualcomm in the dock over 'patent tax' on smartphones Consumer group Which? says owners of Apple and Samsung devices overcharged by £480M Systems06 Oct 2025 | 16
Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator Systems02 Oct 2025 | 26
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running Software01 Oct 2025 | 11
The cloud reset is a financial reckoning in disguise Private cloud solutions are making a comeback Partner Content
Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support Systems01 Oct 2025 | 53
Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry Analysis The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier Systems01 Oct 2025 | 8
Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal Systems01 Oct 2025 | 9
EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink Semicon Coalition presses European Commission for stronger funding, strategy, and skills drive Systems29 Sep 2025 | 8
OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel Opinion Duo could dominate in the same way Microsoft and Intel ruled PCs for decades AI + ML29 Sep 2025 | 15
Trump’s tariff‑shaped stick can’t beat reality on US chip fabbing Comment The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he’s out of office Systems28 Sep 2025 | 67
Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRs Systems26 Sep 2025 | 242
800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics a little more expensive Accident causes major copper mine to suspend operations, as commodity and share prices soar Offbeat26 Sep 2025 | 32
X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5 Systems25 Sep 2025 | 8
Intel reportedly courting ex-flame Apple to become its next investor Chipzilla can't say it's changed much, but could be a handy backup to TSMC Systems24 Sep 2025 | 9
Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water Lambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start Systems24 Sep 2025 | 34
PC memory costs to climb as fabs chase filthy lucre in servers and HBM TrendForce warns of Q4 hikes as suppliers squeeze consumer markets Systems24 Sep 2025 | 6
The first rule of liquid cooling is 'Don't wet the chip.' Microsoft disagrees Redmond suggests ‘Microfluidics’ – hair-thin channels etched on silicon to let coolants flow Systems24 Sep 2025 | 39
Micron close to selling all the high-bandwidth memory it will make in 2026 High demand and DRAM shortages send margins soaring Systems24 Sep 2025 |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the datacenter Comment Stargates or black holes? Risks and rewards from the B(r)itbarn boom On-Prem23 Sep 2025 | 24
Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000 Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation AI + ML19 Sep 2025 | 26
Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G But still no hero customer for Chipzilla's Foundry biz Systems18 Sep 2025 | 7
Huawei lays out multi-year AI accelerator roadmap and claims it makes Earth’s mightiest clusters On the same day that fellow Chinese giant Tencent says its overseas cloud clientele doubled Systems18 Sep 2025 | 3
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
Microsoft pens $15B love letter to the UK with 23,000 Nvidia GPUs attached Redmond woos Blighty with cloud and AI infrastructure splurge as Trump comes to town On-Prem17 Sep 2025 | 7
Small nuke reactors are really coming online by next year, US energy secretary insists That's optimistic based on progress so far Science16 Sep 2025 | 53
China turns the screws on Nvidia with antitrust probe Chip giant accused of breaching conditions of $6.9B Mellanox takeover Systems15 Sep 2025 | 6
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
Think tank warns China's polysilicon subsidies are frying Western fabs US boffins say Beijing's bargain wafers are burning rivals below cost Systems12 Sep 2025 | 34
Intel talent bleed continues as Xeon chip architect heads for the escape hatch Ronak Singhal will be moving onto better and brighter opportunities at the end of the month Systems11 Sep 2025 | 16
Arm wrestles away 25% share of server market thanks to Nvidia's home-grown CPUs Still far short of the 50% market share Arm infra chief was hoping for Systems11 Sep 2025 |
Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable Analysis Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth? Systems10 Sep 2025 | 2
Arm bets on CPU-based AI with Lumex chips for smartphones Four-tier core design debuts amid NPU debate Systems10 Sep 2025 | 7
Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder's biz for nearly $20B Netherlands based Nebius Group to deliver capacity from facility in New Jersey On-Prem09 Sep 2025 | 3
Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months Systems08 Sep 2025 | 11
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like Analysis Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up? AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 3
Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC's China chip-building effort World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status Systems03 Sep 2025 | 16
India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower Systems03 Sep 2025 | 16
Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019 Networks02 Sep 2025 | 31
Build cloud infrastructure – secure and sovereign for the future The future of Europe's digital economy is being decided now. Companies that continue to rely on cloud structures from overseas risk losing competitiveness and strategic control Partner Content
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets Networks01 Sep 2025 | 25
Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs Systems29 Aug 2025 | 36
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Systems29 Aug 2025 | 7
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
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Nobody knows why they need one, but folk seem to be buying them Systems29 Aug 2025 | 21
AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang Systems27 Aug 2025 | 7
Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets Chipmaker keen to protect assets as race for 2nm process heats up Systems27 Aug 2025 |
More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive Quick, get some investment money before the bubble bursts Systems27 Aug 2025 | 3
Intel pitches Clearwater Forest as a consolidation play for all you hoarding ancient Xeons Hot Chips Chipzilla's first datacenter part to use 18A process tech is another core-packed monster Systems27 Aug 2025 | 5
BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress Systems Approach Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour Networks27 Aug 2025 | 15
VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice Sponsored feature
Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates Systems26 Aug 2025 | 3
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse Comment 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape Systems25 Aug 2025 | 43
US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program Systems23 Aug 2025 | 67
NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia Coweta County stalls bit barn vote as residents revolt Systems22 Aug 2025 | 36
DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 4
Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan Systems20 Aug 2025 | 9