A platform for securely scaling operations at the edge Commissioned How Dell NativeEdge provides the confidence to succeed at the outer limits of your operation Commissioned
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 |
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 Systems06 Dec 2023 | 7
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 | 5
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support Systems06 Dec 2023 | 12
Upscaling smaller businesses with optimised ICT How Intel vPro brings enterprise class IT within reach of SMBs Sponsored Feature
IBM takes a crack at 'utility scale' quantum processing with Heron processor Big Blue's roadmap prioritizes circuit size over qubit quantity Systems05 Dec 2023 | 5
Intel scores a reprieve in $2.18B VLSI patent case after court orders retrial Updated The never-ending IP story goes on Systems04 Dec 2023 | 4
Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips Systems04 Dec 2023 | 7
Broadcom's latest Trident switch silicon packs neural net processor to terminate congestion Chip promises better telemetry, security, and traffic engineering, vendor claims Systems30 Nov 2023 |
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
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
German budget woes threaten chip fab funding for Intel and TSMC Constitutional court tells govt: Er, about that €60B you handed out... it's not legal Systems24 Nov 2023 | 39
Simplify and secure operations at the edge The shift to decentralized IT environments and why only a dedicated edge management platform can solve it Commissioned
AI chip outfit Graphcore's sales to China hit by US export rules Company hopes more folks needing AI compute globally will offset pain Systems23 Nov 2023 | 4
How to accelerate intelligent outcomes and unleash AI for modern enterprises Why Dell PowerEdge servers can be a good choice for organizations that need systems purpose-built for AI/ML workloads Commissioned
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
Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices Helium tech to end up on $1-$2 SoCs claimed to bring big performance gains for ML workloads Systems22 Nov 2023 | 4
Meeting the global need for greener data How new server CPUs have been optimised for performance per watt to improve datacenter sustainability metrics Sponsored Feature
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code
Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in 'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk
Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units Updated Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces
Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability Middling performance, but check out the longevity
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it
Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec CANALYS APAC FORUMS Also: India's PC ban didn't take into account needs of ecosystem
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe … for now
Washington pours $3B into silicon smackdown to outpackage Asia Uncle Sam rolls up sleeves to onshore work and protect supply chain Systems21 Nov 2023 | 6
Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo sign up for $42 billion scheme to make kit in India ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Tata orders staff to move cities; Singapore okays stablecoins; Australia trials CoPilot; and more Systems20 Nov 2023 | 4
Scaleway Ampere servers promise AI smarts without breaking the bank We'll see when they reveal the prices Systems17 Nov 2023 | 2
Intel chips away at carbon footprint but skims over thirst for water, chemicals Semiconductors are a dirty business Systems15 Nov 2023 | 3
Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report Plus: US execs line up to dine with President Xi Systems15 Nov 2023 | 6
Fujitsu says it can optimize CPU and GPU use to minimize execution time SC23 Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on Systems13 Nov 2023 | 4
Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council Systems10 Nov 2023 | 53
Arm flexes financial muscles post-IPO, but shares get a reality check Brit chip house now looking to cloud and automotive to grow revenues Systems09 Nov 2023 | 3
Nexperia sells Newport Wafer Fab to American chipmaker for $177M Good news for skilled workers with new owner aiming to 'safeguard positions' Systems09 Nov 2023 | 11
Sales bonanza at ASML as China stockpiles chipmaking kit Dutch exports skyrocket thanks to Washington restrictions Systems08 Nov 2023 | 4
Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2 Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2
Synopsys joins RISC-V party with trio of embedded core designs Recent industry support a game-changer, especially in the software sector Systems07 Nov 2023 |
Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2
China's YMTC scrounges for billions to help bypass US sanctions Meanwhile, RISC-V has Uncle Sam rattled Systems02 Nov 2023 | 10
Qualcomm in recovery position following annus horribilis Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins Systems02 Nov 2023 | 7
Intel dumps its silicon photonics bells and whistles into Jabil's lap 10th arena that chip giant has quit in 2.5 years for $1.8B in annual savings Systems31 Oct 2023 | 5
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
Sorry Pat, but it's looking like Arm PCs are inevitable Opinion History suggests Arm’s place in the PC market will be anything but 'insignificant' Systems28 Oct 2023 | 168
Micron, SK-Hynix's shipping bandwidth-boosting LPDDR5 for on-device AI So long as you don’t mind that it's soldered down Systems26 Oct 2023 |
RISC-V champ SiFive confirms it's laying off 1 in 5 workers The purpose is refocusing and 'realigning,' according to chip designer Systems25 Oct 2023 | 14
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
Qualcomm claims its X Elite PC parts can go toe-to-toe with Apple, Intel Oh, and there's a new Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chip bristling with AI potential Systems24 Oct 2023 | 6
Ex-ASML worker accused of stealing chipmaking secrets for China is Huawei to a new job If true, wages of sin aren't that good Systems24 Oct 2023 | 36
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
IBM flags up NorthPole chip to scale AI – though it's still far from shipping Paper describes work in massively parallel, interconnected system – with limits to data in on-chip memory Systems23 Oct 2023 | 3
India plans semiconductor research institute to rival the world's finest And gives itself five years to build silicon photonics cores Systems23 Oct 2023 | 4
There's no Huawei Chinese chipmakers can fill Nvidia's shoes... anytime soon Analysis Chinese AI and GPU vendors face a less than fab-ulous dilemma where to get their chips built moving forward Systems22 Oct 2023 | 65
AMD gives 7000-series Threadrippers a frequency bump with Epyc core counts Workstation CPUs hit 96 cores, high-end desktops get 64. Prices nearly as high as clock speeds Systems20 Oct 2023 | 15
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
World's largest chipmaker TSMC's sales down on last year, says upswing 'coming' Isn't that what it said last time? Premium chips are picking up ... no really Systems19 Oct 2023 |
India courts IBM, Intel, and Tower for chip partnerships - all in one day Big Blue in early talks to advance local RISC-V designs Systems19 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
TSMC abandons plans for 2nm chip plant after Taiwanese locals protest Foundry giant now searching for new home for high-end fab site Systems17 Oct 2023 |
Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo Systems17 Oct 2023 | 1
Chinese CPUs to feature in servers made by sanctioned Russian company Beijing appears to have lifted its ban on Loongson processors reaching Moscow Systems17 Oct 2023 | 15
Intel's 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh turns turbos up to 6GHz, gives i7 an E-core bump TSMC-equipped Meteor Lake mobile parts not coming until December Systems16 Oct 2023 | 4
One door opens, another one closes, and this one kills a mainframe Who, Me? The Reg brings you balanced coverage of retro-tech Systems16 Oct 2023 | 108
India drops plan to place PCs on restricted import list PLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble Systems16 Oct 2023 |
Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips Won't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators Systems13 Oct 2023 | 4
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
UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy Crumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe Systems13 Oct 2023 | 27
Qualcomm to shed over 1,000 staff in California, plus some Brits, starting in December Vice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas Systems13 Oct 2023 | 6
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 |
Beijing-backed server chip startup formed by ex-Arm China execs Almost a quarter of SoftBank-owned chip designer's total revenue comes via Middle Kingdom, um, arm Systems12 Oct 2023 | 16
Latest SiFive RISC-V cores aim to boost performance, accelerate AI workloads Those are some fat vector registers Systems11 Oct 2023 | 4
RISC-V org claims export restrictions would stifle innovation Efforts to deny China access will hurt the 'open' part of open standard, says collab body CEO Systems10 Oct 2023 | 6
US allows Samsung and SK hynix to keep making chips in China Investments protected, diplomatic rift averted … even Beijing likes it Systems10 Oct 2023 | 7
Blockchain biz goes nuclear: Standard Power wants to use NuScale reactors for DCs Please, no crypto boom, thank you Systems08 Oct 2023 | 36
AI chip biz Graphcore seeks capital to remain going concern Lets off more than 100 staff in US and UK, shutters offices in three countries Systems06 Oct 2023 | 3
Boffins propose RISC-V microcontroller to power cubesats Test chip promises crunching on par with 20-year-old chips while sipping power Systems05 Oct 2023 |
Taiwan looks into claims local companies helped Huawei advance China chipmaking Plus: EU is looking its own strategic export controls – and not just to China Systems05 Oct 2023 | 2
Samsung to fab chips for RISC-V processor world's Tenstorrent For now, chaebol will manufacture AI startup’s 4nm Quasar Systems04 Oct 2023 | 2
Intel spins off FPGA biz with DC boss Sandra Rivera at the helm x86 giant eyes outside cash injections, IPO for Programmable Systems Group within three years Systems03 Oct 2023 | 2
Uncle Sam to tighten chip export chokehold on China... again Red dragon's semiconductor market share continues to grow Systems03 Oct 2023 | 67
European Commission checks AI chip market for stifled competition No formal moves yet, but massive demand for GPUs has drawn its attention Systems02 Oct 2023 |
The Geek is back! Everything you missed at the Intel Innovation Conference, which brought datacenter and AI focus to techies and business managers alike Sponsored Post
AMD's latest FPGA promises super low latency AI for Flash Boy traders Letting more advanced ML loose on the stock market? What could possibly go wrong? Systems29 Sep 2023 | 5
Intel starts mass production on Intel 4 node using EUV in Irish fab First Euro facility to use the next-gen lithography tech for commercial production Systems28 Sep 2023 | 16
Micron revenue halved in FY23 as China ban bites Reason for the block still a mystery – but most have their guesses Systems28 Sep 2023 | 6
Intel facing worker shortage for German chip plant Chip giant says it's still in the 'planning and design phase' Systems27 Sep 2023 | 8
Chip firm accused of IP theft bites back, claims Apple's contracts are rotten iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 Systems26 Sep 2023 | 16
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Systems26 Sep 2023 |
Intel aims to patch semiconductor skills gap with one-year cert program New fabs won't achieve much without specialized staff to fill them Systems25 Sep 2023 | 4
Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Systems25 Sep 2023 | 2
European Commission hits Intel with new fine over antitrust findings Updated What a difference a year makes: in June '22 it was asking for half a billion in interest back after a successful appeal Systems22 Sep 2023 | 4
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer On Call If you throw enough mud, some of it will stick … and crash a server Systems22 Sep 2023 | 215
The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary Systems22 Sep 2023 | 7
US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs Hoping to bridge the dreaded 'lab-to-fab' gap where R&D dreams go to die Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27 Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn't said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate Systems21 Sep 2023 | 2
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them And they're all tailored for efficiency Systems20 Sep 2023 | 12
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
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade Systems18 Sep 2023 | 11
AMD's latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge Little chip promises big power savings Systems18 Sep 2023 |
Intel spices up its FPGA game with open source and RISC-V freebies Tech buffet of updates dished out ahead of IFTD event Systems15 Sep 2023 | 6
Post-IPO, Arm to push purpose-built almost-processors Comment British chip design biz plans to satisfy investors by seeking new customers, while RISC-V and China are already challenges Systems15 Sep 2023 | 18
Arm IPO kicks off today with CPU slinger valued at $54.5B British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only Systems14 Sep 2023 | 17
Cisco dumps its Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Systems14 Sep 2023 | 6
TSMC gobbles up $430M slice of Intel's IMS Nanofab unit Taiwanese also plot $100M investment in Arm IPO, x86 giant gets real about Thunderbolt 5 Systems12 Sep 2023 |