'It's a huge, effing big machine' Interview Tachyum's first chip Prodigy hasn't even taped out - let alone gone into mass production - but one customer has, we're told, committed to buying hundreds of thousands of the processors to power a massive …
Lees meerOr about half of China's recent compute upgrade plan The India AI group at the nation's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last Friday published an AI vision document that calls for a massive build of national computing infra…
Lees meerThe Reg brings you balanced coverage of retro-tech Who, Me? Ah, dear reader, what a joy it is to see you here once again on this blustery Monday morning. And if it's not blustery where you are, don't brag about it - and instead nestle in for anothe…
Lees meerOpen Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already Folks who show up to this week's Open Compute Summit can see something interesting if they visit Meta's stand: a rig designed to automate moves of datacen…
Lees meerPLUS: TSMC chips away at export restrictions; Singapore's COVID model challenged; Japan's banking and ID systems wobble India's government has stepped away from its plan to require manufacturers of PCs, tablets, and servers to secure an import licen…
Lees meerAnd engineer and girlfriend among those held hostage by Hamas Mellanox founder Eyal Waldman's daughter Danielle and her boyfriend Noam Shai were among those killed by Hamas militants while attending the Supernova music festival on the Israel-Gaza bo…
Lees meerProbably not a threat to ASML's EUV tech just yet, analyst tells El Reg When it comes to producing the most advanced chips, Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker ASML has had the market on lock. However, fresh lithography tech from Canon…
Lees meerWon't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators The Biden administration's next round of sanctions could close a loophole that has enabled Chinese companies to buy export-controlled technologies, including AI processors, through outside sup…
Lees meerOr it could, just as soon as they figure out how to make the networking work Analysis In the mad dash to capitalize on the potential of generative AI, Nvidia has remained the clear winner, more than doubling its year-over-year revenues in Q2 alone.…
Lees meerHacks, physical tricks could turn headsets into vomit extractors, but tests already show no ops needed for that DARPA is launching a program to head off "cognitive attacks" for mixed reality headsets that could, in theory, cripple future warfighters…
Lees meerHow high performance interconnects help meet HPC/AI needs for manufacturing simulation workloads Webinar Question: how do you increase your product development time-to-results to stay ahead of the competition?…
Lees meerCrumbs compared to the billions thrown about in US and Europe The UK government has announced the ChipStart program as part of its National Semiconductor Strategy, which will see a dozen silicon startups share £1.3 million ($1.58 million) in funding…
Lees meerCon: You won't get a Menlo Park salary. Pro: You won't have to meet Zuck UK government is trying to hire a "Deputy Director for AI International," a policy leadership role for someone willing to work for a relative pittance compared to research scie…
Lees meerThere's enough overlap that the deal works already. Next: cloud networks and maybe a storage push Cisco has become Nutanix's closest hardware partner – meaning integration of the hyperconverged upstart's stack and Cisco's UCS servers will be stronge…
Lees meerQuest for control as AEI alleges Meta's monopolistic missteps A virtual reality (VR) development collective has filed a $353.2 million antitrust lawsuit against Meta, accusing the platform of conspiring to kill a fitness app developed for Quest devi…
Lees meerVice-presidents, engineers among those scheduled to have a rotten Christmas Chip designer Qualcomm has revealed it intends to shed over 1,000 California-based employees, delivering on previously foreshadowed plans to address its economic woes.…
Lees meerParts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging A mystery US company has tapped Samsung to fabricate datacenter chips using its 3nm manufacturing process.…
Lees meerLooking for a bright spot? Well, it's easier to beg the Feds for cash now, say researchers Hopes that the venture capital market would recover in the latter half of 2023 can be considered well and truly dashed, with a report finding VC spending in Q…
Lees meerAnd in full swing starting Q3 Google has decided to kick third-party cookies out of its Chrome browser for one percent of users in early 2024, and to banish the web trackers entirely from Q3 of the same year.…
Lees meerMeta also told to clean out election-bothering deepfakes from its empire – or face the music Final update The European Commission has publicly rebuked Elon Musk's X for what it says is its role in disseminating disinformation and illegal content su…
Lees meerAlmost a quarter of SoftBank-owned chip designer's total revenue comes via Middle Kingdom, um, arm China could prove problematic for Arm once more, amid claims key staff from its local subsidiary have left to form a server chip design biz with gover…
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