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340 articles filed under Chips and compute, newest first, from the outlets listed on the sources page.
- Ars Technica AIchipsExperts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
- TechRadar AIchips'Don't waste your time': Raspberry Pi expert reveals users are essentially unable to swap out RAM chips for repairs or upgrades
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- BBC TechnologychipsApple ordered to pay $5.7bn after losing vibration tech patent suit
Audio firm Taction Technology claimed Apple infringed its patents for tech used to power device vibrations.
- Ars Technica AIchipsMicrosoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out.”
- Simon Willison's WeblogchipsS3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News. One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade : 2006-03-14…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a...
- The DecoderchipsGoldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2027, dwarfing Wall Street estimates
Goldman Sachs projects that Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta will pour a combined $1.2 trillion into AI infrastructure in 2027, more than 50 percent above this year's levels. Measured against GDP, it would b…
- TechRadar AIchipsPixelMob Portable AI Workstation review
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIchipsCrusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsWhat to expect at NetApp INSIGHT: Join theCUBE Sept. 30
As artificial intelligence goes into production, unified storage could be the glue that keeps everything together. NetApp Inc., a leader in enterprise data storage, wants to lift the burden of AI on enterprise infrastruc…
- WIRED AIchipsThieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.
- TechRadar AIchipsAlibaba wants to expand data center capacity past 20 GW by 2032, says its new V900 AI chip can scale to 500,000-card clusters, but will 'China's most powerful AI chip' be enough to displace Nvidia GPUs?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Ars Technica AIchipsMicrosoft stops insisting you need a “Copilot+ PC”
Microsoft’s new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCoreWeave expands full-stack AI cloud push as inference demand grows
The rise of AI-native cloud provider CoreWeave Inc. is part of the greater story emerging around operationalizing AI. As enterprises shift from training to inference, neoclouds such as CoreWeave are providing cloud infra…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogchipsMulti-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Cloud Native Qumulo let you place training compute in one AWS Region while keeping your dataset in another. This post shares the architecture and validation results from a cross-Region train…
- TechCrunch AIchipsTechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development. Save up to $200 on your pass befor…
- AI BusinesschipsChina leads dexterous hand supply for humanoids
Chinese firms supplied nearly all dexterous hands for humanoid robots in early 2026, but Western players are starting to close in.
- The DecoderchipsAnthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year
Anthropic has reportedly signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai Technologies and will receive a warrant for up to 5 percent of Akamai's shares. Its compute deals have reportedly totaled $517 billion in…
- The Register AI + MLchipsHuawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud
- TechRadar AIchipsDurabook launches a workstation laptop with three real screens - Z14I-DX3 is a rugged mobile device featuring a trio of 14-inch full HD displays with an optional Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada GPU for command posts and drone teams
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIchipsOracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
- Tom's Guide AIchipsGoogle is sending an AI data center into space — with help from Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The DecoderchipsGoogle's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy
Google's "Suncatcher" project aims to run AI infrastructure in orbit on solar power. A fridge-sized experimental satellite is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1. But the challenges are steep: you'd need arou…
- Guardian TechnologychipsLaunch of UK’s ‘largest AI supercomputer’ delayed by power supply problems
Datacentre hailed by government was supposed to start operating next year but may be held back into mid-2030s A huge datacentre project hailed by the UK government will miss its launch date next year and could be delayed…
- Ars Technica AIchipsGoogle’s first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google’s experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.
- The Verge AIchipsGoogle is sending an AI satellite into space next week
Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google's Project Suncatcher, the company's exper…
- WIRED AIchipsMeta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, Prices
At its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsValidate GPU Cluster Readiness Before AI Workloads Land
A GPU cluster can pass every health check and still fail to run an AI workload. Even when every GPU, network link, and pod reports healthy, a 512-GPU training...
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsManage Kubernetes Node Fleets with NodeWright
Kubernetes manages what runs on your nodes. Managing the nodes themselves is the challenge: kernel settings, system packages, storage layouts, security agents,...
- AWS Machine Learning BlogchipsUse open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock
Pair OpenCode, an open-source terminal-native AI coding agent, with open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to get a secure, flexible, pay-per-use coding assistant. Learn how to configure multi-model workflows, match the ri…
- NVIDIA BlogchipsSakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale
When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the shadows and shine a lig…
- TechRadar AIchipsApple weighs its first server since the Xserve, and as always, Nvidia may hold the key
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- BBC TechnologychipsWill a switch to light speed cut power use at data centres?
To save power and add capacity, data centres are switching from copper wires to tech using light.
- BBC TechnologychipsHuge data centres rise at 'China speed' to power its AI ambitions
The BBC visits Inner Mongolia, an unlikely frontier in Beijing's AI race with Washington.
- BBC TechnologychipsRare look at the remote engine rooms fuelling China's AI boom
The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
- TechCrunch AIchipsQualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
- BBC TechnologychipsTech Life
We hear from Ondřej Surý, the programmer whose PHP patches helped avert a cyber crisis.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsTopology-Aware Workload Scheduling with NVIDIA Topograph
AI factories are power-limited systems that deliver maximum value when fully optimized. GPU workload placement is a key optimization. Poor workload placement...
- AWS Machine Learning BlogchipsHow Tata Elxsi detects industrial safety risks in seconds on AWS
Learn how Tata Elxsi built IRIS, a real-time industrial safety platform on AWS. IRIS filters camera video at the edge, streams metadata through Amazon Kinesis, runs computer vision on Amazon SageMaker AI, and correlates…
- WIRED AIchipsViture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind
No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.
- IEEE Spectrum AIchipsThe Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company . Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load.…
- The Register AI + MLchipsAlibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
- NVIDIA BlogchipsNVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are shaping what builders can deploy. Choosing products that fi…
- The Register AI + MLchipsSchneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
- Guardian Technologychips‘RAMageddon’: tech crunch hikes the price of your next iPhone by £100
Shortage of memory chips and other critical components reverses trend of electronics becoming cheaper Apple’s recent product launch caused headlines around the world as it unveiled its first folding phone. But hidden in…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsWhy AI inference must become a commodity
The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. Conventional wisdom suggests commoditization destr…
- Tom's Guide AIchipsNvidia says 'local AI is here' — and it could change how you use AI at home
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian TechnologychipsDomestic datacentres: how computer power can help heat your home
Energy bills are scheduled to rise next month but there are innovative ways to heat your home and save money When Giles Gibson turns on the hot tap in his home, the water that comes out of it is not heated by gas but by…
- TechRadar AIchipsSeagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsWhat to expect during CoreWeave’s ‘Fully Connected’ event: Join theCUBE Sept. 30-Oct. 1
In the growing AI ecosystem, specialized cloud platform provider CoreWeave Inc. is defining its role as a cost-efficient resource for companies seeking to deploy AI with less investment and effort. Two announcements over…