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US, China agree to roll back tariffs – but only for 90 days

world war fee IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a win

Personal Tech12 May 2025 | 25

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Who, Me? It was acceptable in the '80s

Software12 May 2025 | 76

Arm says it isn’t worried by tariffs, but won't give guidance for FY'26

World War Fee No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line

Systems08 May 2025 | 3

Arista cats purr over $2B quarter while tariff time bomb ticks

World War Fee Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins

Networks08 May 2025 | 2

Nvidia boss gets 45% pay bump, but is the billionaire happy?

Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too

Systems08 May 2025 | 20

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped

OSes07 May 2025 | 72

Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off

AI Infrastructure Month07 May 2025 | 4

Cerebras CEO actually finds common ground with Nvidia as startup notches IBM win

Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’

AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 1

Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?

And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere

Virtualization06 May 2025 | 4

Samsung customers buying now to avoid future tariffs – and may slow purchases once they arrive

Datacenter build slowdown hurt storage sales but Korean giant sees bit barn rebound

Systems01 May 2025 | 2

Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love

+Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it?

AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10

Supermicro warns of massive revenue miss as buyers pause purchasing plans

Yet more strife for server-maker sees its share price slump by 15 percent

Systems30 Apr 2025 | 3

808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40

'We thought it was a really obvious way to build a processor and everybody would be doing it'

Systems29 Apr 2025 | 70

EU Chips Act heading for failure, time for Chips Act 2.0

Damning report says it set a moving target that was way too ambitious

Systems28 Apr 2025 | 10

Qualcomm says license fight was because Arm wants to make its own server chips

Alleges semi designer tried to obstruct Qualy's build of Arm-compatible custom cores

Systems24 Apr 2025 | 5

Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised

World War Fee Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! It's the art of the squeal

Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 183

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

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US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI

You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs

RSAC Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it

Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness

Opinion We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types

DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps

Infosec in brief PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Who, Me? It was acceptable in the '80s

Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software

CYBERUK Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks

OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release

Canary fans told it hurts functionality to the point that it makes 'using your PC to do even basic things difficult'

TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade

Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more

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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

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

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