Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs
Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027
Systems01 Nov 2024 | 1
Tobias is The Register's datacenter systems editor. His focus is primarily on the hardware and system software powering today's networks and compute resources. Tobias has previously worked as an editor covering SD-WAN and network security, and as a daily news reporter.
Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?
Improving revenue outlook has Chipzilla's shares back on a positive trajectory – for the moment anyway.
On-Prem01 Nov 2024 | 19
Uncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York
Given the cost of EUV litho machines, the Netherlands' ASML might be the real winner here
Systems31 Oct 2024 | 21
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCs
Personal Tech31 Oct 2024 | 31
Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills
If SMCI is the AI Enron, Ernst & Young wants nothing to do with them
Systems30 Oct 2024 | 23
AMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations
Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct
Systems30 Oct 2024 | 4
xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster
Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips
Systems29 Oct 2024 | 2
The troublesome economics of CPU-only AI
Analysis At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollar
Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4
TSMC reportedly cuts off RISC-V chip designer linked to Huawei accelerators
You know what they say, where there's a will there's a Huawei
Systems28 Oct 2024 | 4
Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser
Project Jarvis will apparently conduct research, purchase products, and even book a flight on your behalf
AI + ML28 Oct 2024 | 50
Apple quietly admits 8GB isn't enough in 2024, M4 iMac to ship with 16GB as standard
The silicon no longer limited to Cupertino's priciest iPads
Systems28 Oct 2024 | 105
European datacenter energy consumption set to triple by end of decade
McKinsey warns an additional 25GW of mostly green energy will be needed
On-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 8
Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia's software ambitions
AI model repo promises lower costs, broader compatibility for NIMs competitor
AI + ML24 Oct 2024 | 16
A closer look at Intel and AMD's different approaches to gluing together CPUs
Analysis Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here
Systems24 Oct 2024 | 25
Nvidia CEO whines Europeans aren’t buying enough GPUs
EU isn’t keeping up with US and China investments, AI arms dealer says
Systems24 Oct 2024 | 34
Ex-Intel board members make an ill-conceived case for spinning off Foundry
Comment Save America’s most important manufacturer? More like save our portfolio and let Uncle Sam pick up the pieces
Systems23 Oct 2024 | 34
Uncle Sam extends 25% CHIPS Act tax credit to wafer, solar panel manufacturing
Meanwhile, Infinera snags up to $93M of the dwindling subsidies
Public Sector22 Oct 2024 |
It's about time Intel, AMD dropped x86 games and turned to the real threat
Opinion Have recent troubles finally humbled Chipzilla?
Systems22 Oct 2024 | 91
Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November
Let bots manage your supply chain? What could possibly go wrong?
AI + ML21 Oct 2024 | 16
Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds
Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg
Systems17 Oct 2024 | 5
Intel lets go of 2,000 staff at Oregon R&D site, offices in Texas, Arizona, California
Layoffs follow more than 7,500 voluntary departures, early retirements
On-Prem16 Oct 2024 | 12
Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire
The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition
Systems16 Oct 2024 | 37
Uncle Sam reportedly considers capping AI chip shipments to Middle East
Meanwhile, ASML shares plunge as China export curbs hit forecast
Public Sector16 Oct 2024 | 5
Intel, AMD team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul
Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 23
AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips
House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 16
AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut
Just not on the same chip, of course
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 18
AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025
Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper
Systems10 Oct 2024 | 5
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design
Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2
TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators
Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4
Systems08 Oct 2024 |
Inflection AI Enterprise offering ditches Nvidia GPUs for Intel's Gaudi 3
Struggling chipmaker scores another win
Systems07 Oct 2024 | 2
Samsung chairman debunks foundry, chip biz spinoff rumors
But not hard to believe of business units with over $2 billion in operating losses in 2023
Systems07 Oct 2024 |
Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket
Analysis This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25
Networks06 Oct 2024 |
Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain
Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do
AI + ML06 Oct 2024 | 35
AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn
Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power
On-Prem04 Oct 2024 | 26
Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel
Comment Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology?
Systems27 Sep 2024 | 21
Oracle owns nearly a third of Arm chip house Ampere, could take control in 2027
Appears to be prioritizing GPUs, not manycore CPUs
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 5
Short sellers rejoice on report of Supermicro DoJ probe
Comment Alleged inquiry comes amid claims server maker cooked its books
Systems26 Sep 2024 |
Blackstone invests £10B to build Europe's 'biggest AI datacenter' in UK
Construction slated to begin next year at site of failed BritishVolt plant
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 17
If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ
Add compliance requirements to your AI to-do list
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 31
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters
With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes
Systems25 Sep 2024 | 26
NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own
Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good
Science25 Sep 2024 | 23
AI chatbot gets green light to hallucinate your investment portfolio
Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market
AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 18
With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD
And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it
Systems24 Sep 2024 | 21
TSMC, Samsung reportedly eye UAE's silicon fields for fab expansion
There’s no shortage of sand, but chip plants are thirsty for something even more precious: Water
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 6
Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery
Comment Gelsinger sold the world on his foundry vision. Walking away won't be easy
Systems22 Sep 2024 | 29
There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is
Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?
Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22
Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch
Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent'
On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 20
SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator
Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle
AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 4
Intel frees its Foundry biz – and that's just one of many major shake-ups today
Pauses European fabs, scores secret US gig, teams up with Amazon, re-orgs its innards, and more!
On-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 30
EU OKs $1.9B aid for Intel Polish plant, assuming x86 giant doesn't end up cutting it
Updated That's zloty money but is it too little, too late?
On-Prem13 Sep 2024 | 13
Nvidia CEO to nervous buyers and investors: Chill out, Blackwell production is heating up
AI ROI? Jensen Huang claims infra providers make $5 for every dollar spent on GPUs
Systems12 Sep 2024 | 8
Oracle boasts zettascale 'AI supercomputer,' just don’t ask about precision
Comment Cluster of 131,072 Blackwell GPUs up for grabs starting H1 2025
Systems11 Sep 2024 | 8
Oracle wants to power 1GW datacenter with trio of tiny nuclear reactors
Isn't saying how much they'll cost or when they'll fire up
Off-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 22
SambaNova makes Llama gallop in inference cloud debut
AI infra startup serves up Llama 3.1 405B at 100+ tokens per second
Systems10 Sep 2024 | 4
US sets reporting requirements for AI models, infrastructure operators
Washington wants to know what the biggest model-makers are up to
AI + ML10 Sep 2024 | 1
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing
Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security
Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims
GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup
Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11
Qualcomm reportedly eyeing Intel's PC design biz and more
Chipzilla hasn't collapsed yet but the vultures are circling
Systems06 Sep 2024 | 2
Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
Comment Foundry faces a reckoning
CxO06 Sep 2024 | 66
Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling
Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom
PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 5
Biting the hand that feeds IT
