Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray Systems18 Jul 2023 | 2
Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions Why are you hitting yourselves? semiconductor CEOs ask Systems17 Jul 2023 | 14
Microsoft's Surface Pro 9 requires a tedious balancing act Desktop Tourism There's probably someone out there who likes a wobbly laptop that cuts their flesh Systems17 Jul 2023 | 34
India Big four outsourcers all have people problems APAC in brief Also: China taikonaut moon plans; Singapore's Temasek to stay clear of crypto; India ponders ban on for-profit .IN sales; and more. Systems17 Jul 2023 | 7
Now Foxconn hopes to lure TSMC, Japan’s TMH into India chip fab pact – report After that $20B Vedanta deal went up in smoke Systems15 Jul 2023 | 6
Nvidia's Arm wrestle – from failed acquisition to possibly anchoring IPO Fancy seeing you here Systems12 Jul 2023 | 4
Intel patches buggy Sapphire Rapids Xeons, resumes shipments Relax, says chip giant, it's an easy fix Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3
US unhappy about China's tech pushback, rules out decoupling When we sanction you, it's for national security. When you sanction us, that's just spiteful Systems10 Jul 2023 | 11
Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right? Who, Me? Health service techie learns what happens when you brute-force a bureaucracy Systems10 Jul 2023 | 172
Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand Asia In Brief ALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3
China chip material export controls just the tip of the iceberg, warns official World powers scramble into emergency meetings as US Treasury Secretary heads to Beijing for talks Systems05 Jul 2023 | 11
Semiconductor execs try to push UK government to do more for industry The national strategy was released in May – but execs say it's not nearly enough Systems03 Jul 2023 | 8
Russian military satellite comms provider offline after hack Infosec in brief ALSO: Ransomware hit on Mancunian Uni spills NHS patient deets, USPTO leaks inventor info, and this week's crit vulns Systems03 Jul 2023 | 6
Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons Chipzilla's not saying much other than 'commercial software' not affected Systems30 Jun 2023 | 16
Memory chipmaker Micron's sales down 57% as market bottoms out Company eyes return to memory growth, but warns life on the China ban-list could be hard Systems29 Jun 2023 |
US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China To protect against weapons or economic interests – either way, it's bad news for some vendors Systems28 Jun 2023 | 5
AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips But can it run Crysis? Systems27 Jun 2023 | 16
Iceotope cooks plan for liquid-cooled servers at the edge Self-contained immersion-cooled chassis aimed at telcos, 5G RAN deployments with HPE, Intel help Systems26 Jun 2023 |
Rejecting Intel, Oracle pumps up Exadata beef cake with AMD protein Muscular system gets first update in two years with Epyc injection Systems23 Jun 2023 | 1
ASML caught in Dutch oven with China export restrictions Government could reveal details of new regulations by the end of month Systems23 Jun 2023 | 21
AMD's 128-core Epycs could spell trouble for Ampere Computing Analysis We still have more cores, exec sniffs Systems21 Jun 2023 | 15
Intel parts with 20% slice of semiconductor biz crucial to chip production future IMS Nanofabrication's expertise will only be more important – so why sell? Systems21 Jun 2023 | 2
AMD seeks luck of the Irish with $135M investment for adaptive computing R&D Pales in comparison to to rival Intel's presence in Dublin... for now Systems21 Jun 2023 |
Germany to subsidize Intel €10B for 'Silicon Junction' fab Plus: Taiwan dangles investment in semiconductor production in EU – but there's a catch Systems19 Jun 2023 | 14
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing Systems19 Jun 2023 | 13
Micron chips in $600M for China memory facility despite Beijing sanctions It's not very nice being blacklisted for no apparent reason, is it? Systems16 Jun 2023 | 3
Intel details coral-shaped immersion cooler that bubbles like Mentos in Coke In the future, you may boil your servers to keep them happy Systems15 Jun 2023 | 15
Intel approached to take on key investor role in Arm IPO Talks at an early stage but the companies already work together Systems14 Jun 2023 | 6
AMD's latest Epycs are bristling with cores, stacked to the gills with cache Zen giant's Instinct MI300 APUs, GPUs not quite ready for limelight Systems13 Jun 2023 |
AMD extends Ryzen 7000 range to enterprise with Pro chips Lines itself up against Apple's M2 Pro on battery life stakes, talks up AI abilities Systems13 Jun 2023 | 3
German finance minister says nein to more Intel subsidy cash Int...hell no: Country's not looking to expand its chip fab budget Systems13 Jun 2023 | 17
Former exec accused of trying to clone entire Samsung chip fab on Chinese soil 65-year-old allegedly stole 'blueprints and designs' for manufacturing sub-30nm DRAM and NAND Systems12 Jun 2023 | 4
Nexperia left off subsidies list as Germany chips away at Chinese connection The country has swallowed almost half of the EU's semiconductor funding Systems09 Jun 2023 | 6
EU greenlights billions for microelectronics under Chips Act Pumps money into sensors, processors, actuators and comms across 56 companies Systems08 Jun 2023 | 7
MediaTek accused of setting 'patent troll' on rival, says it will defend itself RealTek alleges MediaTek was paying Future Link a 'secret bounty' to file 'meritless' patent cases in US courts Systems08 Jun 2023 | 10
The challenges Intel faces to compete with TSMC, Samsung Analysis Fabs still need to be built, process tech needs to be proven – and Pat's gotta make it price competitive Systems06 Jun 2023 | 25
Intel promises to reduce droop with backside power in 2024 Business at the front, party in the rear via PowerVia Systems05 Jun 2023 | 2
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it Systems02 Jun 2023 | 2
Linux Foundation and pals – including Intel – back software ecosystem around RISC-V Aiming to get a RISE out of processor architecture as tech giants commit engineering talent Systems01 Jun 2023 | 24
What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip? Systems01 Jun 2023 |
Uncle Sam vows to Micron-manage China's memory chip ban Commerce Secretary says US 'won't tolerate' Beijing's 'economic coercion' Systems30 May 2023 | 10
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86 Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI Systems29 May 2023 | 3
China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight Asia in Brief PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status Systems28 May 2023 | 11
US and China trade chiefs aim for cool heads as chip wars heat up Commerce Secretary Raimondo asks WTF is going on with the Micron ban Systems26 May 2023 | 6
When it comes to liquid and immersion cooling, Nvidia asks: Why not both? Promises demo of new ways to chill out in the datacenter by 2026 Systems26 May 2023 | 2
Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode Systems25 May 2023 | 104
US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat Sound like anyone you know? Systems24 May 2023 | 17
Applied Materials wants Uncle Sam's help with $4B chip R&D nerve center Step right up and let us help you become dependent on us Systems22 May 2023 |
Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, memory into one package ISC AMD now has clear runway to conquer datacenter APU market Systems22 May 2023 | 7
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong? Systems20 May 2023 | 3
Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards Maybe Jensen finally got the memo about the whole GPU shortage being over Systems19 May 2023 | 15
UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan Systems19 May 2023 | 36
Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing Systems19 May 2023 | 3
Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core Arm chip Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks Systems18 May 2023 | 19
Micron, Kyocera, Samsung bet billions on Japan chip plants Meanwhile, Fujifilm pursues photolithography interests in Taiwan Systems18 May 2023 | 3
Europe vows it won't let US and Asia treat it as a source of museum-grade chip tech With €43 billion at stake, Thierry Breton says that Europe should get advanced fabs Systems17 May 2023 | 28
Nvidia CEO pay falls ten percent in FY23 on missed sales targets He still gets paid 94 times what his median workers do Systems11 May 2023 | 7
Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto Systems09 May 2023 | 1
Climate agenda slips at TSMC, Greenpeace says Analyst responds: perhaps not a fair fight as semiconductors cannot ever transition to 100% renewable Systems09 May 2023 | 5
Qualcomm chips are down as smartphones stay on the shelf, looks to AI for rescue Yes, maybe ChatGPT can write them a better earnings report next time Systems04 May 2023 | 2