Nexperia left off subsidies list as Germany chips away at Chinese connection
The country has swallowed almost half of the EU's semiconductor funding
Systems09 Jun 2023 | 4
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EU greenlights billions for microelectronics under Chips Act
Pumps money into sensors, processors, actuators and comms across 56 companies
Systems08 Jun 2023 | 7
MediaTek accused of setting 'patent troll' on rival, says it will defend itself
RealTek alleges MediaTek was paying Future Link a 'secret bounty' to file 'meritless' patent cases in US courts
Systems08 Jun 2023 | 10
The challenges Intel faces to compete with TSMC, Samsung
Analysis Fabs still need to be built, process tech needs to be proven – and Pat's gotta make it price competitive
Systems06 Jun 2023 | 25
Intel promises to reduce droop with backside power in 2024
Business at the front, party in the rear via PowerVia
Systems05 Jun 2023 | 2
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production
Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it
Systems02 Jun 2023 | 2
Linux Foundation and pals – including Intel – back software ecosystem around RISC-V
Aiming to get a RISE out of processor architecture as tech giants commit engineering talent
Systems01 Jun 2023 | 23
What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig
Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip?
Systems01 Jun 2023 |
Uncle Sam vows to Micron-manage China's memory chip ban
Commerce Secretary says US 'won't tolerate' Beijing's 'economic coercion'
Systems30 May 2023 | 10
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86
Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI
Systems29 May 2023 | 3
China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight
Asia in Brief PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status
Systems28 May 2023 | 11
US and China trade chiefs aim for cool heads as chip wars heat up
Commerce Secretary Raimondo asks WTF is going on with the Micron ban
Systems26 May 2023 | 6
When it comes to liquid and immersion cooling, Nvidia asks: Why not both?
Promises demo of new ways to chill out in the datacenter by 2026
Systems26 May 2023 | 2
Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support
Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode
Systems25 May 2023 | 102
US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat
Sound like anyone you know?
Systems24 May 2023 | 17
Applied Materials wants Uncle Sam's help with $4B chip R&D nerve center
Step right up and let us help you become dependent on us
Systems22 May 2023 |
Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, memory into one package
ISC AMD now has clear runway to conquer datacenter APU market
Systems22 May 2023 | 6
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them
Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong?
Systems20 May 2023 | 3
Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards
Maybe Jensen finally got the memo about the whole GPU shortage being over
Systems19 May 2023 | 15
UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector
Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan
Systems19 May 2023 | 36
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Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Teslas...
GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations
Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims
FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans
No protection without surveillance?
Google changes email authentication after spoof shows a bad delivery for UPS
Google's blue tick proves untrustworthy
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?
Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology
'The more important a thing is for the world, the less security it has' says inventor
Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!
On Call Change approval board signed off as soon as it heard it was BT's fault
Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside
Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy
BOFH: Good news, everyone – we're in the sausage business
Episode 11 Contracts. Do you read them?
Barracuda tells its ESG owners to 'immediately' junk buggy kit
That patch we issued? Yeah, it wasn't enough
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Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon
Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing
Systems19 May 2023 | 3
Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core Arm chip
Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks
Systems18 May 2023 | 19
Micron, Kyocera, Samsung bet billions on Japan chip plants
Meanwhile, Fujifilm pursues photolithography interests in Taiwan
Systems18 May 2023 | 3
Europe vows it won't let US and Asia treat it as a source of museum-grade chip tech
With €43 billion at stake, Thierry Breton says that Europe should get advanced fabs
Systems17 May 2023 | 28
Nvidia CEO pay falls ten percent in FY23 on missed sales targets
He still gets paid 94 times what his median workers do
Systems11 May 2023 | 7
Cut the DRAM waste, cut the energy bill
How ZeroPoint optimizes performance and energy use in datacenters with memory compression
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Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage
This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto
Systems09 May 2023 | 1
Climate agenda slips at TSMC, Greenpeace says
Analyst responds: perhaps not a fair fight as semiconductors cannot ever transition to 100% renewable
Systems09 May 2023 | 5
Qualcomm chips are down as smartphones stay on the shelf, looks to AI for rescue
Yes, maybe ChatGPT can write them a better earnings report next time
Systems04 May 2023 | 2
TSMC and pals dream of €10B German chip fab
UK not included, too busy enjoying Brexit's sunlit uplands instead
Systems04 May 2023 | 27
Now you've all quit buying RAM and personal gear, chip wafer demand stumbles
We thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably
Systems03 May 2023 | 6
US chipmakers don't want to be locked out of industry's biggest market: China
Always Be Closing – deals to grab that sweet, sweet renminbi
Systems03 May 2023 | 12
FCA mulls listing rules after Hauser blames 'Brexit idiocy' for Arm's New York IPO
Flotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU
Systems03 May 2023 | 128
TSMC chips away at the competition with 2nm production set for 2025
World's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer also gives details on 3nm nodes
Systems02 May 2023 | 6
Apple gives up legal war on iPhone CPU wizard who co-founded Nuvia
Qualcomm acquisition dodges one bullet, Arm still coming for blood
Systems01 May 2023 | 16
GlobalFoundries, STMicro snag €7.4B in EU money for French fab project
Joint site to produce low-power chips
Systems29 Apr 2023 | 1
SoftBank taps Arm CEO Rene Haas for its board of directors
Ahead of planned IPO, parent company moves executive pawn into place
Systems27 Apr 2023 | 3
UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry
That's right – we're going to hold the world ransom for... ONE BILLION POUNDS!
Systems27 Apr 2023 | 86
Weak memory demand leaves both Samsung and SK hynix nursing losses
With inventory surplus still an issue, revenues are 'bottoming out'
Systems27 Apr 2023 | 1
Bosch to acquire TSI Semiconductor with a view to EV chip fab retrofit
Of course the German conglomerate expects Yankee cash for its trouble
Systems27 Apr 2023 |
Hands off, vendors – it's for research! $11B of US CHIPS funds earmarked for NIST fabs
Agency hopes program will keep US ahead of curve on semiconductor manufacturing
Systems26 Apr 2023 | 7
Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024
Next year's revenue forecast to surpass the halcyon days of 2022
Systems26 Apr 2023 | 2
Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric
We're trying to run a chip business here
Systems21 Apr 2023 | 53
TSMC revenues slide for the first time in four years
The world's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer isn't immune to ongoing chip slump
Systems20 Apr 2023 | 3
Broadcom chases AI craze with ML-tuned switch ASICs
Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck
Systems20 Apr 2023 |
GlobalFoundries sues IBM for flogging 'chip secrets to Intel, Rapidus'
When it rains, it pours, huh, Pat?
Systems19 Apr 2023 | 9
When you're ASML, not even a semiconductor downturn can dent your outlook
Dutch lithography giant doesn't see China curbs affecting business either
Systems19 Apr 2023 | 4
Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs
If all goes well, Europe will double its market share in a decade
Systems19 Apr 2023 | 21
Arm liable for $8.5B SoftBank loan if IPO is a no-show
Chip designer has until September to float or it's on the hook for parent company's borrowing
Systems18 Apr 2023 | 15
Servers spur a digital economic boom
How ZTE’s energy-efficient G5 series servers can keep telcos, MNOs and large enterprises on scalable, sustainable growth path
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Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building
Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north
Systems16 Apr 2023 | 31
Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers
OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems
Systems14 Apr 2023 | 13
China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high
Despite US blocks to advanced technology nodes
Systems14 Apr 2023 | 11
Germany and Intel both want more from planned Magdeburg mega-fab
Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer
Systems14 Apr 2023 | 4
Why we think Intel may be gearing up to push its GPU Max chips into China
x86 giant cancels mid-tier processor, plans to relaunch nerfed parts for 'different markets'
Systems11 Apr 2023 | 2
Police Digital Service – moving data to where it matters
The public need to know that the police are holding data securely and safely
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Samsung scores fresh Radeon deal with AMD for Exynos chip line ahead of profit crunch
Prelim Q1 2023 results expected to be company's worst in 14 years
Systems06 Apr 2023 | 2
The age of acceleration engines
Why CPU core counts may not be as important as you think
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Southwark Council – shifting beyond a legacy mindset
Why fresh thinking, values and culture is just as important as server, router and connectivity upgrades
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Samsung takes $3.1B gamble on OLED displays for tablets and notebooks
That must be why PC sales are down – the blacks just aren't inky enough
Systems04 Apr 2023 | 18
Japan joins US, Netherlands in chipmaking tech export crackdown
Latest rules stop short of naming you-know-who
Systems02 Apr 2023 | 8
China sticks national security probe into America's Micron
Looking for leaky memory, and possibly revenge
Systems01 Apr 2023 | 16
Korea passes tax break-driven 'Chips Act' as protectionism fears mount
Plus: Complains criteria for foreign companies to access US funding too strict. It's not a great sign, is it?
Systems30 Mar 2023 | 3
Intel successfully ships an updated datacenter roadmap
What we may well see in 2023 and beyond
Systems30 Mar 2023 | 6
Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian
Under pressure from activist investor, top brass agree to plot new course
Systems30 Mar 2023 | 2
Diving DRAM prices are a problem not even AI can solve
Analysts just don't see digi-brains making a difference to dismal demand that's caused deep discounting
Systems29 Mar 2023 | 16
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival
Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman
Systems29 Mar 2023 | 15
Micron writes off $1.43B in inventory as sales dive, claims only way is up
AIs are going to need memory and storage silicon, you know
Systems29 Mar 2023 | 8
Nexperia claims Newport Wafer may close if sale goes ahead
Staff may head for exit, followed by customers, it would 'decimate' ops, says CEO
Systems28 Mar 2023 | 7
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown
Releasing 4% of workforce
Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing
GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 1
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together
GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 2
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography
GTC What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 4
Turning green with professional-grade PCs
Climate change negatively impacts our society, leaving businesses to find new ways to optimize business operations to reduce CO2 emissions
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Qualcomm adds 'premium experiences' to Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2
Tosses some features to mid-tier masses, including those buying upcoming Redmi, realme handsets
Systems17 Mar 2023 | 9
Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers
'Soft errors' caused by neutrons are well known. This study suggests we might be making them more likely
Energy Efficient Datacenters17 Mar 2023 | 40
As chip sales slump, inflation makes the price of Samsung's Texas fab blow out
South Korean titan budgeted $17 billion. Could now need over $25 billion to bring the facility online
Systems16 Mar 2023 | 2
Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder
Free trade not quite as dead, 'but it's in danger' says Morris Chang
Systems16 Mar 2023 | 29
Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI
Chances its Arm that maker community is looking for a fresh SBC
Systems15 Mar 2023 | 69
Samsung to splurge $230B on five new chip plants for South Korea
Will build out domestic industry while it builds out US domestic industry...
Systems15 Mar 2023 | 1
The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them
Successful invasion would make China 'the OPEC of silicon chips'
Systems14 Mar 2023 | 100
Industrial design: AMD brings 4th gen Epyc power to embedded applications
7-year availability as kit goes in hardware that hangs around much longer than average PC
Systems14 Mar 2023 | 6
ReRAM redo: UCL spinout scores £7M to push Resistive RAM
Remember the storage class memory that never took off? It's back
Systems13 Mar 2023 | 10
Rambus takes charge of Arm’s CryptoCell, CryptoIsland IP
Updated Building a watertight SoC? You'll have to go through IP-slinger now
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 2
Netherlands joins US blockade of Chinese chip industry
No DUV for you
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 9
Brit chipmaker issues warning about inventory glut
IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 7
Cash-strapped Intel looks for $3B in savings to pursue '5 nodes in 4 years' dream
Cheap as chips? Not in this case
Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
AMD flips the bird at Intel as it glides past in CPU-GPU stakes
CTO warns chips and process technology must be designed together more closely thanks to Moore's Law
Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
China's semiconductor and IC imports have slumped. Why on Earth could that be?
It looks like sanctions – and economic chills – are biting as total trade with EU, US and Japan declines
Systems09 Mar 2023 | 23
Intel rattles the tin for another €5B in subsidies to build German fab
Please, sir, we want some more
Systems08 Mar 2023 | 21
While Intel XPUs are delayed, here's some more FPGAs to tide you over
The F in F-Tile is for fast, right?
Systems08 Mar 2023 | 3
China's government re-orgs Sci-Tech ministry to advance self-reliance push
Leaders accuse Biden administration of neo-McCarthyism
Systems08 Mar 2023 | 4
Nvidia in blast radius as Uncle Sam looks to cut off China's Huawei for good
GeForced into a cold war
Systems07 Mar 2023 | 9
As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000
Updated Good news: Jobs for all! Bad news: Employer may be invaded by China
Systems06 Mar 2023 | 16
Fujitsu's A64FX successor will be an Arm-based datacenter chip
Plus: Drops 'carbon-neutral' hints on successor processor with the moniker MONAKA
Systems06 Mar 2023 | 7
Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London
Foreign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now
Systems03 Mar 2023 | 69
China's memory maker YMTC scores $7B to counter bans
US isn't the only country splashing out the cash for fabs
Systems03 Mar 2023 | 2
Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse'
Lack of route to domestic semiconductor supply best of British stuffup, says Urquhart
Systems02 Mar 2023 | 83
White House ban on US chip cash going into China ruffles South Koreans
Pretty awkward for Samsung, SK Hynix and their Middle Kingdom fabs
Systems02 Mar 2023 | 3
IBM teases AI-infused hybrid cloudy upgrade to z/OS - Bingo!
Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders
Systems01 Mar 2023 | 10
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