NVIDIA released new architectural details and SPEC CPU 2026 benchmarks for its upcoming Vera CPU, revealing a 88-core Olympus architecture with spatial multithreading and up to 1.2TB/s memory bandwidt…
Nvidia is positioning its new Vera Rubin chip system as a complete AI data center solution, combining GPUs and CPUs to meet growing demand for agentic AI systems. The company claims the Vera Rubin NVL…
Nvidia is touting performance gains for its Vera Rubin platform ahead of AMD's Advancing AI conference, with CoreWeave seeing 10 times more tokens per watt running DeepSeek's R1 model compared to the …
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo LED driver is queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle, enabling LED customization on Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs. The driver, developed by AMD engineers, allows turning LE…
US stock futures climbed on Monday as Asian equity markets staged a sharp recovery led by semiconductor stocks, with South Korea's Kospi surging 3.6% and Japan's Nikkei 225 rallying 3.3%. Samsung Elec…
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rackscale solution to power model inference and Azure AI services, part of an expanded partnership spanning GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software. The double-wide Hel…
AMD launched Helios, its first complete open rackscale AI infrastructure system integrating Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software, marking its biggest push yet to challenge …
IREN Limited reported that demand for its GPU cloud services now exceeds supply, with contracts pricing above $15 million per megawatt. The company, formerly known as Iris Energy, has secured a multi-…
MoonMath AI launched Zro, a private inference endpoint for coding agents that serves open-weight models from EU infrastructure with zero request retention and no training on customer data. The service…
AMD shipped its first rack-scale AI system, Helios, on July 20, landing Microsoft Azure, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle as customers. One rack packs 72 MI455X GPUs, 31 TB of HBM4, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 co…
China's chip exports nearly doubled in the first half of 2024, driven by mature logic integrated circuits, while Nvidia's H200 chips have resumed limited imports into China. The US leads in advanced A…
British semiconductor wafer manufacturer IQE has raised its full-year revenue growth forecast, citing stronger-than-expected first-half trading driven by demand for its compound semiconductor products…
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system designed to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin, with Microsoft signing on as a partner to deploy it on Azure. AMD claims Helios will match or exceed Nvidia's second-…
On a 128GB unified memory system using AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, a dense 9B model with a speculative drafter ran at just under 40 tokens per second, a 35B mixture-of-experts Qwen3.6 model with…
AMD has optimized MiniMax-M3 inference on Instinct MI355X GPUs using ATOM, AITER, and ATOMesh, achieving improvements in serving throughput, token latency, and accuracy through online quantization, sp…
AMD introduced ROCm Infera, an open-source distributed inference reference solution for large-scale deployments, claiming it can improve goodput per GPU for agentic AI workloads by up to 2.6× in inter…
AMD's Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, featuring 128GB unified LPDDR5X memory and a Radeon 8060S GPU, enables local machines to run 100B+ parameter large language models like GPT-OSS 120B without a discret…
AMD's Ryzen AI Developer Center, bundled with Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 machines, eliminates manual ROCm and driver setup for local AI workloads, offering guided playbooks for ComfyUI, LM Studio, and Unsl…
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs with ATOM and ATOMesh achieve competitive inference performance for MiniMax-M3, a 428-billion-parameter multimodal MoE model, outperforming NVIDIA B200 and B300 in per-GPU thr…
AMD launched its new Helios AI rack server platform on Monday, intensifying its competition with Nvidia in the AI hardware market, Yahoo Finance reported. The chipmaker's latest offering targets data-…