Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced plans to adopt ASML's high-NA EUV lithography machines, which cost up to $400 million each, and joined Intel in agreeing…
A technical analysis of the AI inference stack in 2026 maps the path of a single request from application to GPU, detailing layers such as API gateway, inference gateway, distributed serving, inferenc…
IFA 2026's push for local intelligence dominated the show's announcements on September 8, 2026, with AMD unveiling chips for 125-billion-parameter models and a 96-core Threadripper Halo Station, while…
Amazon Web Services has partnered with Qualcomm to develop customized AI inference silicon and 1.6 Tbps optical networking gear, with commercial commitments potentially totaling $60 billion through Se…
A September 9, 2026 analysis of twelve AI accelerators from NVIDIA, AMD, Google, AWS, Cerebras, and Tenstorrent finds that memory per dollar, not FLOPS, is the primary purchasing criterion for AI comp…
A CPU shortage is emerging as AI and agentic workloads drive demand, with server order lead times stretching to ~6 months and prices up 10-20% since March, according to engineering leaders and Intel's…
AMD CEO Lisa Su said on the August 4, 2026 earnings call that the next-generation Ryzen AI Halo platform, powered by the new Gorgon Halo processor, features 192 gigabytes of unified memory and can run…
Nokia launched Mobile Core Early Access, a program giving operators and enterprises hands-on testing of advanced mobile core features in a live hosted environment, initially with 30 companies in June …
AMD at IFA 2026 unveiled Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo chips for Windows PCs capable of running 125-billion-parameter models locally, alongside a 96-core Threadripper Halo Station personal AI workstation…
AMD and the vLLM project detailed five speculative decoding methods for vLLM on AMD GPUs, achieving up to 2.59x throughput improvement for certain large language models. The techniques enable producti…
Mistral raised €3 billion in a Samsung-led Series D at a €21 billion-plus valuation, marking the largest equity round ever for a European tech company, with funds allocated to compute, frontier resear…
AMD unveiled the Threadripper Halo Station at IFA 2026 in Berlin on September 4, a desktop workstation it calls a 'personal supercomputer' that packs up to 576 GB of HBM3E memory and aims to run trill…
AMD and the veRL project released a production-ready reinforcement learning post-training container for AMD Instinct GPUs, supporting MI300 and MI355 series on ROCm, with AITER-accelerated vLLM and SG…
A technical explainer on distributed training and inference details how work is divided across CPUs, GPUs, and multi-node clusters, distinguishing data, pipeline, and tensor parallelism and sharding, …
AMD and the University of Delhi have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch AMD's AI Engage Developer Program at the university, aiming to train up to 10,000 students over the next year with a…
At IFA 2026, AMD unveiled new AI-focused hardware including Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo chips, the Threadripper Halo Station with 96 cores, and announced Project Zenith with Microsoft's Pavan Davuluri,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined King Charles III and executives from Amazon, Apple, AMD, Salesforce, and Alphabet at Blair House in Washington, D.C. on April 28 to discuss AI development and the UK's t…
AMD's new Ryzen AI Max 400 (Gorgon Halo) chips with up to 192GB of unified memory can now run 320B-parameter models like GLM-5.3-Flash locally, while the Threadripper Halo Station with 2TB system memo…
NanoGEMM, a bare-metal AVX2/FMA matrix multiplication engine, claims to outperform NumPy 2.2.3 on small-to-medium matrices, achieving a 2.83x speedup on 16x16 float32 matrices (1.23 µs vs 3.21 µs) but…
Tracarbon, a Python library that tracks device energy consumption and calculates carbon emissions, now supports monitoring GPU power and carbon output while running local large language models. It det…