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 |
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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
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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
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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
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HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems
No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached
Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos
Comment Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder
Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness
On Call At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated
We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far
Kettle Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands...
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts
Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals
Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail
24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust
Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA
China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020'
Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised
Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic
BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets
US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar
Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed
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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
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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 |
Washington left with chip on shoulder after Huawei exposes export loophole lapses
Back to the drawing board with those China sanctions then, eh?
Systems12 Sep 2023 | 34
Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze
Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order
Systems12 Sep 2023 | 11
Microsoft’s AI investments skyrocketed in 2022 – and so did its water consumption
In its rush to lead the generative ML world, Redmond may have developed a datacenter drinking problem
Systems11 Sep 2023 | 5
Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, electrically
Who, me? A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project
Systems11 Sep 2023 | 165
Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin
It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand
Systems07 Sep 2023 | 27
Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan
Forced sale of Britian's biggest semiconductor component maker creating uncertainty over its future
Systems06 Sep 2023 | 15
Rapidus ramps as construction begins on 2nm wafer fab
Japanese foundry startup also shipping engineers off to US to study IBM chip tech
Systems01 Sep 2023 | 3
Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever
'Pre-leasing' also on the up as customers try to grab space in bit barns as they're being built
Systems01 Sep 2023 | 2
Now Middle East nations banned from getting top-end Nvidia AI chips
While ASML says it can keep selling DUV kit to China through 2023
Systems31 Aug 2023 |
China's top RISC-V players form patent alliance
UPDATED Industry alliance confirms purpose of pact is 'to create an ecosystem of patent non-litigation'
Systems31 Aug 2023 |
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