VectorWare has made Rust's portable SIMD (core::simd) work natively on GPUs, allowing the same SIMD code to run on x86, ARM, and NVIDIA GPUs without modification. This direct mapping of SIMD vectors t…
Intel Corporation announced a $15 billion common stock offering on August 10 to fund capital expenditures and working capital, driven by surging demand for server CPUs from AI agent workloads. Server …
Riot Platforms Inc. reported second-quarter revenue of $174.20 million, beating analyst estimates of $152.06 million, and signed a 20-year data center lease with a leading frontier AI lab for 191 mega…
A developer's third installment in a GPU optimization series details implementing distributed training for large language models using CUDA and ROCm, covering All-Reduce, Ring-AllReduce, and ZeRO shar…
Intel plans to raise $15 billion through a public stock sale to invest in AI chips, citing strong demand driven by unprecedented investment in AI compute. The company, whose stock has risen about 400%…
CoreWeave stock rose over 50% from its July 29 low of $60 to $90.6 ahead of its Tuesday earnings report, which analysts expect to show second-quarter revenue of $2.56 billion, up 110% year over year, …
S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped about 0.1% in premarket trading as investors awaited earnings from Applied Materials, Lumentum Holdings, and Cisco Systems, which will test AI hardware demand, a…
Synopsys unveiled two production-ready autonomous chip design workflows under its AgentEngineer technology, powered by Microsoft's Discovery platform and being evaluated by AMD for next-generation AI …
Meta released Muse Glimmer 30B, its first open-weights model in the Muse family, under the Apache 2.0 license, featuring a 1.8B vision encoder and a 128K+ context window for coding, agentic workflows,…
Microsoft is in talks with TSMC to manufacture its custom-designed Maia AI accelerators, including the Maia 200 with over 140 billion transistors and 10 petaFLOPS of FP4 performance, as part of a broa…
Siemens highlights that hardware-assisted verification (HAV) methodologies, including emulation and FPGA-based prototyping, are essential for developing advanced AI chip designs, citing its Veloce CS …
Best Buy's August back-to-school sale now includes new deals on Windows laptops, with discounts up to $1,125 off Copilot+ PCs and gaming machines, starting at $399.99. The refreshed lineup features mo…
A developer achieved 59,965 tokens per second running a 3.16M-parameter INT4 transformer entirely in the on-chip memory of a $250 AMD Xilinx Kria KV260 FPGA, with zero DRAM in the token loop. The bit-…
AMD has acquired Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to integrate its technology into AMD Instinct GPUs for more efficient inference workloads. Financial terms were not disclosed. Taalas, founded in Augus…
AMD has acquired Toronto-based chipmaker Taalas, the latest in a series of Canadian semiconductor startups snapped up by U.S. firms, prompting calls for a national strategy to retain homegrown talent.…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported July sales rose about 45% year over year, its strongest monthly growth in a year, signaling that AI infrastructure spending is translating into real rev…
Lemonade, an open-source local AI server written in C++, shipped an update in August 2026, according to its GitHub repository, which has 5.3k stars. The project, optimized by AMD engineers for Ryzen A…
AMD acquired Toronto-based Taalas on August 6, a chip startup that hardwires AI model weights into silicon using Mask ROM, eliminating the memory bottleneck. Taalas's HC1 chip, built on TSMC's 6nm pro…
Cache read costs now dominate agentic AI workloads, accounting for up to 81.6% of total inference spend in a 100-turn session, according to an analysis by an unnamed author. The analysis shows that fo…
Riot Platforms disclosed a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, expecting about $9.1 billion in contract revenue through June 2048, with delivery pha…