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An 8-GPU tensor-parallel (TP8) rig should prioritize PCIe topology over CPU choice, according to guidance recommending that GPUs communicate directly through a Gen5 switch rather than routing peer-to-peer traffic through…
A forum post speculates that the 12V-3 connector, an alternative to the 12V-2 connector, is intended for AI-server GPUs and advises readers to stop buying any hardware that uses it. The post notes that datacenter equipme…
Huawei plans to launch its Ascend 960DT AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, three quarters earlier than its previous third-quarter target, rotating and acting chairman David Wang announced at the Huawei Connect confere…
A builder documented a dual-boot Ubuntu 24.04/Windows workstation running four NVIDIA RTX6000 Blackwell Pro Max-Q GPUs (96 GB each, 384 GB total) with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7985WX and 512 GB of DDR5 RAM, reportin…
Cerebras co-founder and other chip industry leaders discussed AI infrastructure bottlenecks, efficiency, investment, and future innovation at an event held at Google Bay View, according to Forbes contributor John Werner.…
A user who purchased 8 R9700 GPUs is asking for advice on the cheapest way to build a PCIe 5.0 x16 tensor-parallel rig for running TP8 inference on ~200GB models, proposing a single Microchip Switchtec PM50100 100-lane G…
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned in Vienna on September 14 that Europe must build its own artificial intelligence infrastructure or accept dangerous dependency on US and Chinese systems, citing th…
The Trump administration is reportedly considering 12 data center projects on public lands across six states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming — encompassing at least 17,600 acres, according to records r…
A developer released gemmcheck3, a self-checking rocBLAS GEMM stress test for AMD GPUs targeting RDNA3/gfx11 hardware such as the RX 7900 XTX. The tool runs five rocblas_gemm_ex calls in LLM layer shapes (fp16-in/fp32-ou…
Huawei is pulling forward the release of two Ascend 960 AI chip models by three to nine months, deputy chairman David Wang said at the Huawei Connect 2026 conference. The Ascend 960DT will now ship in the first quarter o…
Tiny Vedas released an open-source RISC-V AI accelerator stack whose shipping RTL is a 4-stage pipelined RV32IM processor in SystemVerilog paired with an 8×8 int8 GEMM MMIO accelerator sharing DCCM over AXI4, with PyVeda…
TSMC's CoWoS-L is expected to remain the mainstream advanced packaging solution for AI chips through 2028 despite competition from Intel's EMIB-T, according to TrendForce research, which cites CoWoS-L's technology maturi…
Rep. John Moolenaar, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, sent a letter to Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler urging the Trump administration to strictly…
Dnotitia said on September 18 that first samples of its VDPU vector-search ASIC have returned from fabrication, with silicon characterization underway and ASIC-based systems planned for evaluation in the fourth quarter. …
HPE announced that HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 Release 4 is now generally available, doubling a single cluster to 16 nodes and 16 JBOFs and scaling to approximately 23PB of raw capacity. The release adds native-namespa…
ARM director for ecosystem strategy for developer platforms Peter Hodges appeared on the September 18, 2026 episode of the Game Developer Podcast to discuss how chipmakers work with game developers to optimize ARM's Neur…
Jacob Helberg, confirmed as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs by a 51-47 Senate vote on October 7, 2025, is leading US diplomatic efforts to build AI supply chains that bypass China through a framework called…
President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping are set to meet in Washington on September 24 for an AI-focused summit, following a May meeting in Beijing that ended without a formal agreement on AI guardrails. The US pr…
The nonprofit research group C4ADS identified at least 56 restricted Nvidia AI chips worth 11.9 million renminbi (about $1.7 million) in Chinese university and research-institution procurement records from July 2025 thro…
Huawei pulled forward its Ascend 960 AI accelerator roadmap at its Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on September 17, 2026, moving the training-focused Ascend 960DT to Q1 2027 and the inference-focused Ascend 960PR t…