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Netlist Inc. asked the U.S. International Trade Commission on August 11 to block imports of Micron Technology Inc.'s DDR5 RDIMM and MRDIMM memory modules, alleging infringement of four patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 10,025,73…
Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet networking architecture delivers up to 1.6x network throughput gains over conventional Ethernet, with failover recovery reduced from 1.08 seconds to 2.68 milliseconds, a 99% improvement. At t…
Nvidia's advantage in AI is expanding beyond GPUs into the surrounding systems that orchestrate data in gigawatt-scale data centers, according to the company's earnings and interviews with executives. The Vera Rubin arch…
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told CNBC on Thursday that the U.S. has taken the technology lead from China for the first time in 30 years, citing NVIDIA, hyperscalers, and Palantir, but warned that the Trump administration's …
Samsung unveiled LPDDR5X-PIM at Hot Chips 2026, a drop-in DRAM replacement that embeds multiply-accumulate units in each of its 16 memory banks, achieving 81.3 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 8B versus 27 with conventiona…
The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls to block remote access to advanced AI chips in China, targeting the compute-as-a-service loophole. This shifts U.S.-China tech competition from hardware sales to …
Apple and Xiaomi are both prioritizing memory bandwidth in their latest hardware to support AI workloads, with Apple's M6 hitting 170GB/s, M5 Pro at 307GB/s, M5 Ultra at 1.2TB/s, and Xiaomi's Xuanjie O100 edge AI chip re…
Data center expansion is hitting a geopolitical wall as trade restrictions and export controls on high-end silicon threaten to fragment global compute, according to an analysis of the industry. The piece argues that hard…
GMKtec teased a new Gorgon Halo mini PC, the Evo-X5 Pro, powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 APU with 16 Zen 5 cores and Radeon 8065S iGPU, set to launch at IFA Berlin on September 5. The device is expected to feature…
President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang mid-all-hands-meeting on Thursday, underscoring how Nvidia's China chip strategy hinges on Huang's direct access to the president, according to Wired. Nvidia took a $4.5 bil…
Microsoft is significantly behind its own targets for AI chip deployment, with internal documents cited by The Guardian showing 2.2 million AI chips installed, less than half of what some analysts projected. The shortfal…
SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, plans to launch a space-optimized version of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 computing system into orbit in Q4 2027, a year earlier than previously disclosed, with significant scale in 2028.…
Z.AI confirmed that its GLM-5.3 Flash model runs entirely on Chinese-manufactured hardware, but the company did not name the chipmaker or publish performance figures. The analysis assumes HiSilicon parts, which are rough…
Google's custom-silicon agreement with Marvell Technology extends beyond its tensor processing units to include AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory-interface controllers,…
The Trump administration is developing new restrictions to prevent Chinese companies from remotely accessing advanced AI chips in overseas data centers, a move expected to strain U.S.-China relations and impact major Chi…
An engineer's blog post explains GPU architecture for machine learning, focusing on NVIDIA's CUDA platform and the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs. It breaks down key components like Streaming Multiprocessors an…
A commentary argues that AI chip hardware lifecycles are longer than the hype suggests, with a three-year baseline for high-end silicon, citing deployment patterns and depreciation schedules. The piece outlines a tiered …
SK Hynix broke ground on a more than $4 billion advanced packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first U.S. production base for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips critical to AI systems. CEO Kwak Noh-Jung said …
The Vergecast episode discusses Apple's new Mac Mini and Mac Studio with M6 and M5 Ultra chips, which Apple markets for AI inference but the hosts are skeptical. The episode also covers Meta's settlement imposing new tee…
This week, AI expansion into enterprise software, custom silicon, media creation, autonomous vehicles, and workplace planning collided with security crises, rising costs, and public resistance. Bill Gates backed taxes on…