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339 articles filed under Chips and compute, newest first, from the outlets listed on the sources page.
- The Register AI + MLchipsMicrosoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up
Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s
- The Register AI + MLchipsAI inference is running into a memory bottleneck. Huawei wants to tackle it with OceanStor M900
SPONSORED POST: The Context Memory Storage platform aims to improve the economics of large-scale AI inference
- Guardian AIchipsMicrosoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft p…
- TechRadar AIchips'This computer is going to be incredible': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why the new Surface Laptop Ultra is "really a work of love"
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- NVIDIA BlogchipsRTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive
NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs. Starting at $2,399, laptops from ASUS, Dell,…
- TechRadar AIchipsMicrosoft's Maia 300 swaps raw compute for a 2.5x memory bandwidth gain as it moves to make in-house silicon its main AI engine while claiming a 40% efficiency bump — could going the Google route be the pin that pops the Nvidia AI bubble?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsPhysics AI pushes chip design beyond traditional simulation
Vinci4D Inc. is bringing a new approach to semiconductor design grounded in fundamental physics equations. The company provides simulation software for chip designers, offering an alternative to traditional simulation me…
- The Register AI + MLchipsNTT Global Data Centers weighs the price tag of not building fast enough
SPONSORED POST: As AI hunger soars, NTT Global Data Centers finds it's permits, not parts, that could cap the datacenter boom
- The Verge AIchipsA week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC…
- Guardian TechnologychipsElon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event
The Tesla Roadster 2 drove up a curved ramp before using SpaceX rocket thrusters to fly, flip and land Elon Musk has revealed Tesla’s latest model, which he claims will be the world’s first flying car, using technology f…
- TechRadar AIchipsUSAF will upgrade F-16s ' computers to keep venerable Falcon fighters flying until the 2040s — popular 4th generation aircraft will have flown almost seven decades by the time they retire
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsVinci targets faster chip design and simulation with physics-driven AI
Simulation is a hardware engineer’s best friend, adept at finding issues in product designs and avoiding a disastrous deployment. Yet the process of orchestrating simulations has required specialized skills and lots of t…
- NVIDIA BlogchipsBe There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark
A new beginning for Windows PCs starts tomorrow with the launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark — one PC built for creators, gamers and AI agents. All are invited to celebrate with NVIDIA and partners at launch events around the wor…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCerebras positions inference speed as a competitive edge in agentic AI
Agentic workflows are making speed a condition for whole classes of AI applications to exist, and the fastest tokens will determine which platforms win the next phase of AI. Cerebras Systems Inc., which raised $5.5 billi…
- The Verge AIchipsHow Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the me…
- TechRadar AIchipsAI Storagemaxxing: Your GPUs are optimized, what about your data?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIchipsTech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt
Chip makers and tech investors such as Samsung and SoftBank plunge as potential interest rate hikes spook markets Business news – live updates Larry Elliott: the global economy is muddling through. But a storm is coming…
- NVIDIA BlogchipsThe Nordics and NVIDIA Show What’s Possible When a Region Commits to Advanced Computing
The Nordic countries have become the European leader in unicorn startup density, producing the most emerging companies valued at $1 billion or more per capita on the continent. Now, a new chapter for the region is unfold…
- TechCrunch AIchipsRicursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
- Engadget AIchipsBee unveils two AI note-taking devices, its first new products since being acquired by Amazon
The Eclipse and Frontier are cheap and colorful, but you'll need a Pro subscription to make the most of them.
- TechRadar AIchipsWater-resistant and easy to clean: HP delivers an AMD Ryzen keyboard PC that can be splashed with liquid — EliteBoard G1a has a 32Whr battery but alas no touchpad, review finds
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- TechRadar AIchipsData centers use as little as 60% of power consumed for actual AI work, Nvidia claims — failures and restarts 'consume' a whopping 10% of every watt used
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecoderchipsNvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe, $250 million in compute for UK safety labs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced $2 billion in European investments and new stakes in French startups like Doctolib and Entalpic. The UK gets $250 million in compute for AI agent safety and security research. Huang pitc…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsScaleFlux targets AI memory bottlenecks with smarter SSD controllers
AI factories run on graphics processing units that cost a fortune and work at blistering speed, yet those chips increasingly sit idle waiting for data. As the bottleneck moves from compute to memory and storage, NAND fla…
- The Register AI + MLchipsAI math isn't mathing: infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue
Analyst predicts 80 percent of neoclouds will disappear as standalone businesses by 2030
- The Register AI + MLchipsThe AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue
Analyst predicts 80% of neoclouds will disappear as standalone businesses by 2030
- TechRadar AIchips16 cores, 5.2 GHz, and 55 TOPS: Minisforum's newest AI workstation is mostly a massive upgrade to 192GB of memory - and that is not necessarily a bad thing
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- BBC TechnologychipsTech Life
The plan for an orbiting data centre involves linking satellites around Earth.
- The Register AI + MLchipsApple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks
The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices
- The Register AI + MLchipsMicrosoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks
96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027
- TechRadar AIchipsMicrosoft Surface Laptop Ultra RTX Spark pre-orders are now live
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- NVIDIA BlogchipsAll Systems Go: Global PC App Ecosystem Ready for NVIDIA RTX Spark
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new beginning for the PC — a reinvention combining the capabilities of a gaming PC, a creative studio and a personal AI supercomputer into a single superchip. With up to 128GB of unified memory and…
- TechRadar AIchipsEnterprise IT infrastructure isn’t built for AI inference
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIchipsChip stocks slide after Broadcom boss likens AI investing to ‘casino’
Asian markets fall and Samsung shares tumble after its Chinese rival CXMT claims strong progress Shares in semiconductor companies fell on Tuesday after the boss of Broadcom compared many AI investors to “casino” gambler…
- Engadget AIchipsWhat is NVIDIA DLSS and how does it work?
NVIDIA's upscaling software is truly powerful when used in the right situations.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsIntel, Broadcom CEOs flag AI industry challenges at financial event
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan and Hock Tan, his counterpart at Broadcom Inc., have flagged capital access as a potential challenge for the artificial intelligence sector. The executives shared their observations…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsDell and Intel weigh the costs of enterprise AI scalability
Enterprise AI scalability is running into a hard budget wall for some customers. As agentic workloads multiply, cloud token bills are consuming allocations faster than planned, prompting companies to rethink where infere…
- AI BusinesschipsHumanoid bottlenecks emerge amid US-China tensions
Rising production volumes are increasing pressure on suppliers, while U.S.-China tensions could make it harder for Western manufacturers to secure alternatives to Chinese suppliers.
- The DecoderchipsMicrosoft plans to scale its own Maia AI chips to gigawatt levels by 2027
Microsoft will make its in-house Azure Maia chips the main AI inference system across its products starting in 2027, deploying them at multi-gigawatt scale. The upcoming Maia 300 should deliver 40 percent more tokens per…
- NVIDIA BlogchipsOCP Global Summit: Amid Ecosystem Adoption, NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Architecture to Help Scale AI Factories Worldwide
As AI factories grow from megawatts to gigawatts, building them takes more than advanced computing. Open standards are helping the industry scale AI infrastructure faster, more efficiently and more reliably. At the Open…
- The Register AI + MLchipsWhich AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary?
Just over two weeks before The Register’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.
- TechRadar AIchipsMicrosoft unveils Maia 300, its most powerful AI chip yet - and it might make using Teams, Copilot and Cowork much better at last
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIchipsMicrosoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of runn…
- The DecoderchipsCheaper AI tokens are driving more demand, and that's Jensen Huang's best-case scenario
Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop. If that demand flattens, the chain from…
- TechCrunch AIchipsAmazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, w…
- Hugging Face BlogchipsImpactful scheduling for GPU clusters
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsOpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a little taste this week.…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCoreWeave targets AI inference bottlenecks with full-stack optimization
AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That shift is pushing special…
- The Register AI + MLchipsNvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCoreWeave makes the case for an open, full-stack AI cloud
The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to distinguish themselves thro…