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337 articles filed under Chips and compute, newest first, from the outlets listed on the sources page.
- TechCrunch AIchipsOpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
- Guardian AIchipsNational Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
New electricity generating capacity would enable north-east to attract investment for large-scale AI infrastructure National Grid has taken a step towards building Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, wh…
- BBC TechnologychipsThese firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst
The amount of debt held by data centres is measured in the tens of billions of pounds.
- The Register AI + MLchipsGoogle's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
- Engadget AIchipsSam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer
Sam Altman, in an interview, said it's 'terrible' for people to have 'a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM' that they barely use.
- TechCrunch AIchipsNvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
- TechCrunch AIchipsIntel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
- TechCrunch AIchipsCracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
- The Verge AIchipsSam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsRun AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands
AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...
- The Verge AIchipsGoogle’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma…
- Ars Technica AIchipsFujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
- Google ResearchchipsWe’ve received our first response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite.
This week, we reached our "Hello World" milestone: the first-ever AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.
- TechCrunch AIchipsGoogle’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow to Check and Configure NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage for Your Platform
NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) accelerates GPU storage access in on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a robust, portable, and efficient data path...
- BBC TechnologychipsUS tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tn
Shares in Intel continue to fall while the tech-heavy Nasdaq opens at its lowest level in more than two months.
- Tom's Guide AIchipsSam Altman says your laptop RAM is a 'terrible’ allocation of scarce resources: Why I think the AI bubble is about to prove him wrong
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- TechRadar AIchipsThe AI data center race is now a race to power
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian TechnologychipsElectrocutions, disease and no pay: how workers risk exploitation in Europe’s datacentres
As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of…
- TechRadar AIchipsGetac says its new rugged notebooks offer faster AI-powered processing than ever — and seem to be targeting military and defense customers
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIchipsAWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogchipsLend and borrow resources across teams with AWS Batch’s quota management for SageMaker Training jobs
AWS Batch quota management is a new scheduling capability you can use to divide GPU capacity into quota shares per team or project, automatically lend idle capacity across shares, and use preemption to run your highest-p…
- The Verge AIchipsAI has come for Arizona’s water
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The…
- TechRadar AIchipsFADU wants to take the CPU out of AI storage by putting the file system inside the SSD, but the proof won't arrive until 2027
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Register AI + MLchipsTape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x
Because, sigh, AI
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCloudera expands its AI ecosystem with partnerships and packaged blueprints
Cloudera Inc. Tuesday announced an expansion of its enterprise artificial intelligence ecosystem, introducing preconfigured AI applications built with Nvidia Corp. technology and expanding partnerships with Neo4j Inc. an…
- TechRadar AIchipsRAM crisis could last until 2030 — and then get ready for the robots
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- NVIDIA BlogchipsThin, Light and Built for Everything: NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games
NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. These powerful systems comb…
- The Register AI + MLchipsSK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030
Good for its bottom line, not great news for yours, or for the PC and smartphone markets
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsOracle brings Google’s TPUs to its cloud, adds ChatGPT integrations
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to make Google LLC’s TPU artificial intelligence accelerators available through its public cloud. The initiative marks the first time the search giant is supplying the chips to another…
- TechCrunch AIchipsThe data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsMemory-Enforced GPU Sharing in Kubernetes with NVIDIA CUDA 13.4
Many AI workloads need only a fraction of a GPU. Giving each one an entire device can leave capacity idle; sharing GPUs lets platform teams serve more workloads...
- The Register AI + MLchipsBig Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers
Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs
- TechRadar AIchips'This is a wow moment': T-Mobile has made the world's first AI-RAN call, and it could mean huge changes for the next generation of staying in touch
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsNVIDIA RTX Spark Powers Neural Rendering and AI Characters in Games
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new Windows PC platform for AI development, creation, and gaming in slim laptops and compact desktops. Powered by an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX...
- The DecoderchipsMeta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips
ia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. The article Meta gets $3 billion from Nvidia and plans to spend more on Nvidia chips appeared first on The Decoder .
- NVIDIA Developer Blogchips3 Ways to Boost MoE Inference on NVIDIA DGX Spark
Generating tokens faster starts with identifying what limits inference performance. In the batch-size-1 evaluation of Ling-3.0-flash from Inclusion AI on NVIDIA...
- TechRadar AIchipsYou can't currently order a Tinybox with Nvidia GPUs — and Tiny Corp's new 192GB six-GPU AMD build just got $3,000 pricier
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIchipsAnthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom
As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is i…
- TechRadar AIchipsHPE is sending its most powerful AI compute platforms to the Moon aboard an all-new lunar rover
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIchipsSpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsMarvell’s early chipmaking gamble pays off amid AI demand
Eight years ago, chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. decided to play leapfrog with nanometers, and its trajectory has been steadily upward since. In semiconductor manufacturing, nanometer designations identify generations…
- The DecoderchipsMeta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund its AI buildout
Meta plans to sell new stock to raise money for its AI infrastructure buildout. The article Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund its AI buildout appeared first on The Decoder .
- The DecoderchipsWall Street's fastest traders are building data centers and backing chip startups to stay ahead in AI
High-frequency traders like Jane Street and Hudson River Trading are now racing each other for AI computing power. The article Wall Street's fastest traders are building data centers and backing chip startups to stay ahe…
- TechRadar AIchipsThis crowdfunded $109 hub wants to pool the RAM in your old PCs, Macs, and phones to run bigger AI models — but the engine underneath is software you can already get for free
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIchipsFrom the bins, back to business: We take a tour of HPE’s Technology Renewal Centre to see how it's giving old tech a second life
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes
Training large-scale AI models on thousands of GPUs is a high-stakes operation where monitoring and automation must be built-in to optimize cluster resiliency...
- TechRadar AIchips32 TB RAM for your GPUs: Marvell shows revolutionary Photonic Fabric Memory Module that uses light to link up to 16 GPUs and slash CAPEX — but Nvidia won't stick around doing nothing
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIchipsIs the GPU crisis down to real shortages, or is it market manipulation?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield
AI Factories are some of the most technologically complex operational environments ever created. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet...