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Apple will begin shipping upgraded Mac Minis and Mac Studios on Tuesday, September 22, pitching machines that can cost nearly US$20,000 as a cheaper alternative to renting cloud AI compute, according to Apple chief hardw…
HPE and NVIDIA are positioning Cray supercomputing architecture as the foundation of their joint AI factory portfolio, with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre's upcoming Blue Lion system built on the HPE Cray Supercomputi…
Apple will begin shipping upgraded Mac Minis and Mac Studios on Tuesday, pitching corporate buyers on running AI tasks locally instead of paying cloud providers such as OpenAI or Anthropic for tokens, with high-end confi…
Eli Lilly chief information and digital officer Diogo Rau was named a TIME Executive of the Year after his team built LillyPod, an Nvidia-powered supercomputer with more than 1,000 Blackwell GPUs, in just four months. Li…
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) announced on September 22, 2026 that its HBM4E PHY and Controller IP is design-ready and has been adopted in customer AI ASICs, reaching data transfer speeds up to 16 Gbps on TSMC's N2P process…
T-Head, Alibaba's chip subsidiary, unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip for training and inference at the 2026 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, claiming three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. The V900…
CoolIT says server racks above 250 kW can no longer be cooled by a hybrid liquid-air approach, since a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves a 75 kW air load that demands a parallel air system few operators will accept. The comp…
Timnit Gebru, executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), and Emily M. Bender, a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, argue that recent AI claims about hacking, mathematical b…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer warned the Trump administration on September 17 against easing export controls on advanced AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment ahead of President Xi Jinping's visit t…
Huawei's Kirin 9050 Pro processor has narrowed the company's mobile chip gap with Apple to about three years, down from roughly four years in the previous generation, according to equity research firm Bernstein. The chip…
A New York Times investigation published September 6 found that Aivres, the California subsidiary of blacklisted Chinese firm Inspur Group, exported at least $5.6 billion in advanced technology to Southeast Asia between …
MediaTek introduced the Dimensity CX C10 Max, its first chip built specifically for AI-focused thin-and-light laptops and the debut product in its new Dimensity CX "Computing" series. The 3nm system-on-chip is designed f…
Huawei detailed version 2.0 of its UnifiedBus interconnect protocol at its Connect 2026 event, saying the backbone supports terabit-level bandwidth for SuperPoD clusters and that its UnifiedBus LinkDevice offers 176 port…
Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 series on September 22, 2026, with the MiMo-V2.6-Pro scoring 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, tying Grok 4.7 and setting a new ceiling for open-weight models. The model…
Vast Data Inc. launched DataEnclave, a confidential computing environment that uses Nvidia Corp.'s confidential computing technology to run AI models against sensitive data in hardware-isolated trusted execution environm…
A new chip called LightTok converts light directly into 'tokens' for AI, according to Live Science, with the aim of slashing energy use in drones and other autonomous machines. The report gives no figures for the chip's …
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro at Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui, with the Gen 6 Pro's Hexagon NPU able to run Mixture-of-Experts models of up to 30 billion total paramet…
Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip on September 22 at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, claiming three times the performance of its M890 predecessor, 216 GB of HBM memory, 1.2 TB/s inter-chip bandwidth, FP8 and FP…
The European Union's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) would create a four-level sovereignty framework for cloud services used by EU institutions and public-sector organizations, requiring the most sensitive w…
An engineer argues that GPU availability remains the biggest structural bottleneck in ML infrastructure, with capacity now fragmented by region and instance type rather than simply scarce. The piece outlines common worka…