Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU
The processor that gave the world the ZX Spectrum and so much more is out of wafers
Systems22 Apr 2024 | 74
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Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting
On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 121
TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas
It'll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO
Systems18 Apr 2024 | 9
Micron scores $6.1B CHIPS Act cash for New York and Idaho fabs
Memorymaker to park mega plant in Syracuse, says senator
Systems18 Apr 2024 |
HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents
Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions
Systems18 Apr 2024 | 1
Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry
Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry
Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 1
ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client
The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer
Systems17 Apr 2024 | 10
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders
Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line
Systems17 Apr 2024 | 6
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip
Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models
Systems16 Apr 2024 | 6
Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts
That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work
Systems16 Apr 2024 | 3
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia
Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs
Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer
Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit
Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs
Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership
Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC
Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed
Systems15 Apr 2024 | 8
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China
Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon
AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 5
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says
Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect
Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit
Export restrictions and sanctions working well, we see
Systems11 Apr 2024 | 26
Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events
Kettle We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to
Systems11 Apr 2024 | 2
Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions
Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial
Systems11 Apr 2024 | 15
Hailo's latest AI chip shows up integrated NPUs and sips power like fine wine
All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot
Systems10 Apr 2024 | 6
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Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
Interview With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI
High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave
Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness
Who, Me? For once, Redmond's finest saved the day - by being rubbish in unexpectedly useful ways
Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU
The processor that gave the world the ZX Spectrum and so much more is out of wafers
Researchers claim Windows Defender can be fooled into deleting databases
BLACK HAT ASIA Two rounds of reports and patches may not have completely closed this hole
Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam
Opinion What if it's not AI but the algorithm to blame?
MITRE admits 'nation state' attackers touched its NERVE R&D operation
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Akira ransomware resurgent; Telehealth outfit fined for data-sharing; This week's nastiest vulns
FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch
Commercial operators must try Varda
Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal
Riveting conclusion to Tesla recall saga
Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever
KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship
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Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake
Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs
Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030
Robot overlords demand more energy
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 20
Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips
Cloud Next Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel Gaudi's third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia's H100
Intel Vision Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices
Plus: Qualy punts a 'micro-power' Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit
Systems09 Apr 2024 |
Palantir and Oracle buddy up on cloud infrastructure
But do all Foundry workloads move to OCI? It's up to the customer, spy-tech firm says
Storage09 Apr 2024 | 5
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge
Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen
Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
TSMC scores $11.6B funding infusion for Arizona fabs, now plans for third plant
Nevermind the fact that the first two plants are facing delays and costs are rising – build, build build!
Systems08 Apr 2024 | 7
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience
Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents
AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO
interview Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry
Systems08 Apr 2024 | 42
Butler Investments joins Atos rescue party
Shares up 25% on the news
Systems08 Apr 2024 | 2
Alibaba Cloud slashes prices outside China
Domestic customers saw their fees cut last January
Systems08 Apr 2024 |
AMD to open source Micro Engine Scheduler firmware for Radeon GPUs
And it was all thanks to peer pressure
Systems05 Apr 2024 | 12
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again
Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027
Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
Intel's foundry business bled $7B in 2023 with more to come
CEO Gelsinger promises sunny days ahead as he confirms reorg
Systems03 Apr 2024 | 18
Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs
We're never going to give you up...
Systems01 Apr 2024 | 3
TSMC boss says one-trillion transistor GPU is possible by early 2030s
Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward
Systems01 Apr 2024 | 15
Overclocking muddies waters for Nvidia's redesigned RTX 4090 and US sanctions
Cut-down chips get a big boost
Systems29 Mar 2024 | 4
Pressuring allies not to fulfill chip kit service contracts with China now official US policy
Xi Jinping warns 'no force' can stop country's science and tech progress
Systems28 Mar 2024 | 14
Intel's green dream is chips without any dips in Mother Nature's health
Sustainability Summit pushes industry partners to reduce their environmental impact, including harmful chemicals
Systems28 Mar 2024 | 7
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs
Video Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward
Systems27 Mar 2024 | 2
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo
Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton
Systems27 Mar 2024 | 7
TSMC's 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants' next-gen chips
AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology
Systems27 Mar 2024 | 3
What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators
Analysis Air cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon
Systems27 Mar 2024 | 4
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support
Systems27 Mar 2024 | 16
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center
Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs
Public Sector27 Mar 2024 | 6
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute
SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws
Systems26 Mar 2024 | 3
As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate
Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love...
Systems25 Mar 2024 | 54
Tiny Corp launches Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works'
Startup slams AMD for buggy firmware
Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 9
AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future
Comment LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity
Systems25 Mar 2024 | 7
ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems
Updated Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware
Software25 Mar 2024 | 9
Gelsinger woos Musk as Intel seeks to drum up Foundry Services business
It's just not economical for Chipzilla to be the factories' only customer these days
Systems25 Mar 2024 | 2
SoftIron rolls its own server virt stack to join the 'let's get VMware' crowd
Banks on allowing BYO external storage to make migrations less painful
Virtualization25 Mar 2024 | 4
Samsung preps inferencing accelerator to take on Nvidia, scores huge sale
Asia In Brief PLUS: Tencent's profit plunge; Singtel to build three AI datacenters; McDonald's China gobbles Microsoft AI
AI + ML24 Mar 2024 |
One rack. 120kW of compute. Taking a closer look at Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 beast
GTC 1.44 exaFLOPs of FP4, 13.5 TB of HBM3e, 2 miles of NVLink cables, in one liquid cooled unit
Systems21 Mar 2024 | 22
Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 platform
Boosted on-device generative AI's not just for the flagship smartphone kids
Systems21 Mar 2024 | 4
US may sanction those rumored to be in covert Huawei chip network
Crouching entity list candidate, hidden semiconductor ... or that's the idea, anyway
Systems20 Mar 2024 | 3
Intel scores $8.5B in government cheddar to supercharge fab builds
Department of Commerce says it's the largest such investment in US semiconductor manufacturing
Systems20 Mar 2024 | 7
Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year
And teases a laptop to show off its current silicon – running the open edition of Huawei’s CentOS spinout
Systems20 Mar 2024 | 8
Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots?
GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU
Systems19 Mar 2024 | 14
Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays
Updated You know where plants are much cheaper to construct? Asia
Systems19 Mar 2024 | 7
Nvidia turns up the AI heat with 1,200W Blackwell GPUs
Five times the performance of the H100, but you'll need liquid cooling to tame the beast
Systems18 Mar 2024 | 17
US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions
National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven
Systems18 Mar 2024 | 9
How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes
Hands On Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about
Systems17 Mar 2024 | 83
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
On Call Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship
Systems15 Mar 2024 | 123
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers
Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs
Public Sector15 Mar 2024 | 41
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs
Opinion Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least
AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 8
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI’s latest hire tells us about its future
Analysis What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 10
First Armv9 automotive CPUs aim to power AI-enabled vehicles
Vehicle electronics and software becoming ever more complex
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 6
Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant
Updated Plus: Trump reportedly gave chipmaker license to sell to Huawei back in the day...
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 8
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips
Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations
Exclusive Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives
Systems13 Mar 2024 | 11
IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues
Next logical step after rounds of voluntary layoffs
Systems12 Mar 2024 | 24
Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers
Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom
Systems12 Mar 2024 |
Singapore startup SiliconBox to open packaging fab in Northern Italy
Shared cultural values sealed the deal and we're struggling to figure out what they are
Systems12 Mar 2024 | 2
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam
They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they?
Systems07 Mar 2024 | 3
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment
Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions
Systems07 Mar 2024 | 56
There’s still room for FPGAs in the datacenter
Hear the last freestanding malleable chip maker make the case in this interview
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Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country
Updated Lithography kitmaker has 'concerns' over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries
Systems06 Mar 2024 | 53
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is
Don't hold your breath
Systems05 Mar 2024 | 31
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales
Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little
Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam
At least the US Army is thinking about the frogs in those 226 acres of wetland
Systems04 Mar 2024 | 8
French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC
€15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement
Systems04 Mar 2024 | 7
Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers
Updated Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models
On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 23
India approves its first full wafer fab – a 28nm affair from Tata and Powerchip
Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details
Systems01 Mar 2024 |
Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel's Xeon
Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm
Systems29 Feb 2024 | 18
Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier
Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry
Systems29 Feb 2024 | 32
Chip fab supplier Applied Materials gets subpoenaed over China sales
Updated Comes after US probe into biz's dealings with SMIC
Systems28 Feb 2024 | 1
Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million
Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go
Systems28 Feb 2024 | 10
City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do
Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money
Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 71
Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update
You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet
Systems27 Feb 2024 | 10
A different view from the edge
How Dell NativeEdge provides the single pane of glass which harmonizes your IT and OT perspective
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With over 600 CHIPS fund applicants seeking over $70B, don't get your hopes up
Commerce secretary warns priority will go to shovel-ready projects
Systems26 Feb 2024 | 4
Nvidia talks up local AI with RTX 500, 1000 Ada mobile GPUs
As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting
Systems26 Feb 2024 | 1
Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow
MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts?
Systems26 Feb 2024 | 2
More AI for cell networks as Intel rolls out vRAN platform
MWC Plus fresh edge compute system that may be able to run on existing infra
Systems26 Feb 2024 |
India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board
Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon extradited
Systems26 Feb 2024 | 3
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
On Call Sometimes the best form of revenge is doing nothing – very politely
Systems23 Feb 2024 | 256
Gelsinger splits Intel in two to advance foundry vision
FDC Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry
Systems22 Feb 2024 | 13
Nvidia revenue grows 265 percent with more to come as new GPUs and Ethernet near
Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they're 'fairly allocated'
Systems22 Feb 2024 | 3
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