Riot Platforms Lands AMD Rockdale Data Deal
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has secured a data center deal with AMD at its Rockdale, Texas facility, expanding contracted capacity to 50 MW with an option for 200 MW. The 10-year agreement is expect…
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has secured a data center deal with AMD at its Rockdale, Texas facility, expanding contracted capacity to 50 MW with an option for 200 MW. The 10-year agreement is expect…
Apple plans to skip the M6 Pro and Max chips and fast-track the M7 generation by up to six months, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift aims to accelerate on-device AI performance amid competiti…
Micron Technology reported a blowout quarter with revenue of $41.5 billion and EPS of $25.11, far exceeding Wall Street expectations, and guided next-quarter revenue to $50 billion. The results revers…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are funding RAISE US, a new nonprofit led by former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo to retrain American workers for the AI economy. The group has raised ove…
LightSeek Org open-sourced TokenSpeed-Kernel, a portable API and high-performance kernel subsystem for multi-silicon LLM inference, decoupling runtime from hardware-specific code to simplify backend c…
A developer built Hacker Trends, a tool that indexes 18 years of Hacker News comments to chart the rise and fall of topics, tools, and people, using Upstash Redis Search. The tool visualizes competiti…
LG is offering up to $700 off its latest OLED TVs, including the C6 and G6 models, during Amazon Prime Day deals. The discounts apply to select sizes, with the 65-inch LG C6 priced at $1,999.99 and th…
Amazon's Prime Day deal discounts the ASUS ROG Strix G18 (2025) gaming laptop by 27% to $1,239.99, the lowest price on record. The laptop features an 18-inch 144Hz display, RTX 5050 GPU, and Ryzen 9 8…
AMD engineer Steven Xiao contributed an ONNX Runtime back-end for FFmpeg's DNN filter, enabling AI model inferencing on multiple GPU and NPU platforms including NVIDIA CUDA, Windows DirectML, and AMD …
AMD released FSR SDK v2.3, updating Ray Regeneration to v1.2 with quality improvements and optional denoising, and introducing FSR Upscaling 4.1.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs. The SDK also includes FSR Frame Gene…
Morgan Stanley upgraded Qualcomm to Equalweight and raised its price target to $231, citing strong data center growth prospects. The upgrade marks a reversal from the bank's previous bearish stance, a…
A new open-source AI VTuber tool allows beginners and non-programmers to set up a fully local, free VTuber using Whisper for speech recognition, Ollama for LLM inference, and Chatterbox TTS, with VTub…
Micron Technology and Qualcomm reported earnings on June 24 that exceeded expectations, adding over $400 billion in market value to chipmaker stocks. Micron disclosed $22 billion in customer commitmen…
Amazon is offering the Alienware AW2725DM 27-inch QHD gaming monitor at its lowest price ever, $178.59, a 34% discount. The monitor features a 180Hz IPS display, VESA DisplayHDR 400 certification, and…
Investors are pouring billions into world models, a new AI category focused on spatial intelligence, as Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $230 million in 2024 and a larger 2026 round f…
Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra announced that the company expects meaningful product shipments from its newly acquired Taiwan fabrication site by mid-2027, ahead of previous projections. The $1…
Qualcomm stock surged over 13% after the chipmaker raised its fiscal 2029 non-handset revenue target to $40 billion, doubling its previous goal, with over $15 billion expected from its new AI data cen…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed a multi-generation processor deal with Qualcomm, securing custom Snapdragon silicon for Meta's extended reality hardware and AI workloads. The agreement extends acro…
Qualcomm acquired Modular to challenge NVIDIA's AI dominance, unveiling a five-year plan to expand into data centers with Dragonfly AI accelerators and CPUs. The acquisition provides an alternative to…
Runpod, a cloud startup renting AI computing power, raised $100 million in a funding round led by Summit Partners, reaching a $1 billion valuation—a tenfold increase in under two years. The company do…