AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries SYSTEMS The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first Systems05 Aug 2026 | 3
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller EDGE AND IOT Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? Edge and IOT04 Aug 2026 | 41
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic ai and ml For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 69
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it SYSTEMS 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip Systems01 Aug 2026 | 26
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech STORAGE High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows Storage30 Jul 2026 | 5
Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake PUBLIC SECTOR Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program Public Sector29 Jul 2026 | 2
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch Storage With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived Storage28 Jul 2026 | 48
Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering AI + ML American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper AI and ML27 Jul 2026 | 7
AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI ai and ml Hey Claude, optimize this model for me AI and ML24 Jul 2026 | 1
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs SYSTEMS The enemy of my enemy is my friend Systems23 Jul 2026 | 1
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's Systems Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper Systems23 Jul 2026 | 1
The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now AI + ML Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3 AI and ML21 Jul 2026 | 58
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet SYSTEMS Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon Systems21 Jul 2026 | 1
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out SYSTEMS Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants Systems21 Jul 2026 | 3
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief SYSTEMS Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom Systems16 Jul 2026 | 35
TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan SYSTEMS Beware of fab makers bearing press releases Systems16 Jul 2026 | 17
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open AI and ml Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs AI and ML16 Jul 2026 | 14
Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design ai and ml One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations AI and ML15 Jul 2026 | 1
New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts ai and ml 50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers AI and ML14 Jul 2026 | 3
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider systems Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company AI and ML13 Jul 2026 | 15
Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all AI + ML The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse AI and ML12 Jul 2026 | 35
AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful AI + ML OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools AI and ML11 Jul 2026 | 22
The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey ai and ml The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up AI and ML08 Jul 2026 | 30
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks ai and ml Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7 AI and ML08 Jul 2026 | 1
South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters AI and ML RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs AI and ML07 Jul 2026 |
AI startup that’s never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease AI + ML Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf AI and ML06 Jul 2026 | 19
Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma Science Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium Science06 Jul 2026 | 15
AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap AI and ML 128 GB of memory! In this economy? AI and ML06 Jul 2026 | 19
Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme AI and ML What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course AI and ML02 Jul 2026 | 17
Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI ai and ml Risk factors galore AI and ML01 Jul 2026 | 36
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM systems With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall Systems30 Jun 2026 | 4
Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia SYSTEMS Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms Systems19 Jun 2026 | 28
2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud On-PREM You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute On-Prem18 Jun 2026 | 97
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand NetworkS Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train Networks17 Jun 2026 |
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created SYSTEMS Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion Systems16 Jun 2026 | 6
Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers HPC Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps HPC16 Jun 2026 |
There's no such thing as an agentic CPU SYSTEMS AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other Systems16 Jun 2026 | 23
SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? systems We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair Systems12 Jun 2026 | 3
Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale SYSTEMS Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box Systems12 Jun 2026 |
Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation ai and ml Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory AI and ML11 Jun 2026 | 3
Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box SYSTEMS Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones? Systems05 Jun 2026 | 15
Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was AI and ML Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void AI and ML04 Jun 2026 | 3
The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company Networks CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first Networks03 Jun 2026 | 6
'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices Personal Tech Your personal Jarvis or an end to privacy as we know it? Personal Tech02 Jun 2026 | 113
Intel and pals cram 36,864 CPU cores into a 100kW rack while chasing the agentic AI dragon AI and ML Meanwhile, Intel and SambaNova's disaggregated inference blueprint lands its first customer AI and ML02 Jun 2026 | 6
Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks Systems Forget Wintel, we're living in a Winvidia world now Systems01 Jun 2026 | 34
If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst systems Chipzilla’s first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores Systems01 Jun 2026 | 1
Intel Diamond Rapids to boost core counts to 192, but RIP Hyperthreading Systems Threads on a half shell, Intel power! Systems01 Jun 2026 | 10
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators off-Prem Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost. SaaS27 May 2026 | 1
Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service ai + ml Think ChatDoE AI + ML27 May 2026 |
Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire AI and ML Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech AI + ML27 May 2026 |
Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit Better, more reliable, and cheaper? Isn't that the story every generation? Networks27 May 2026 | 2
AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you ai + ml New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins AI + ML21 May 2026 | 20
GPU behemoth Nvidia on track to be world's leading CPU supplier too, says CFO Systems GPUzilla forecasts $20 billion in CPU revenues this year Systems21 May 2026 | 1
AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself Systems If you spend at least eight hours a day vibe coding that is Systems21 May 2026 | 24
AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself ai + ml Assuming you’re vibe coding for 8 hours a day, that is AI + ML20 May 2026 | 4
Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs systems Chip startup NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get Sandia National Lab's stamp of approval Systems18 May 2026 |
Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models AI + ML Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness AI + ML17 May 2026 | 12
Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B AI+ML Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026 AI + ML14 May 2026 | 14
Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures On-Prem And neither AI nor international conflict are helping On-Prem13 May 2026 | 1