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 | 5
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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 | 28
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 | 15
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 | 7
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 | 13
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
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Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back
VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA
Exclusive Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu
10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets
Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day
No details, no CVE, update your browser now
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't
On Call Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert
LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco
UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
Didn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras
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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
Inside the cloud’s shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch
How Arm is redefining cloud performance — and how developers are already building on it
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Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive
PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet
Systems20 Nov 2025 | 12
It's a good time to be the arms dealer for the AI boom
Bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn't see one
Systems19 Nov 2025 | 18
US pumps $1B into Three Mile Island nuclear plant reboot to keep AI datacenters fed
A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979
Systems19 Nov 2025 | 16
Commodity memory prices set to double as fabs pivot to AI market
Updated Analysts warn LPDDR4 supply is tightening fast with shift to higher-end components
Systems19 Nov 2025 | 12
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel
€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower
Supercomputing Month18 Nov 2025 | 1
Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run
SC25 EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year
SC2517 Nov 2025 | 3
GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast
VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash
Supercomputing Month14 Nov 2025 | 9
Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them
Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 15
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
The 100 trillion-parameter models of the near future can't be built in one place
Systems13 Nov 2025 | 28
Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era
When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it’s time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.
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China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume
Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker
Systems07 Nov 2025 | 16
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 | 55
Why the future of the datacenter is the infrastructure operating system
From bolt-on chaos to built-in AI: Infrastructure with no assembly required
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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
The Future of the Datacenter05 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
Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes
No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix
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Why digital sovereignty is the key to public sector transformation
From public sector to education, IONOS and Dataport prove trust begins with secure infrastructure.
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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
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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 | 143
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
The Future of the Datacenter29 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
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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
The Future of the Datacenter28 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
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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 | 7
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
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