Nvidia CEO pay falls ten percent in FY23 on missed sales targets He still gets paid 94 times what his median workers do Systems11 May 2023 | 5
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Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto Systems09 May 2023 | 1
Climate agenda slips at TSMC, Greenpeace says Analyst responds: perhaps not a fair fight as semiconductors cannot ever transition to 100% renewable Systems09 May 2023 | 5
Qualcomm chips are down as smartphones stay on the shelf, looks to AI for rescue Yes, maybe ChatGPT can write them a better earnings report next time Systems04 May 2023 | 2
TSMC and pals dream of €10B German chip fab UK not included, too busy enjoying Brexit's sunlit uplands instead Systems04 May 2023 | 27
Now you've all quit buying RAM and personal gear, chip wafer demand stumbles We thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably Systems03 May 2023 | 6
US chipmakers don't want to be locked out of industry's biggest market: China Always Be Closing – deals to grab that sweet, sweet renminbi Systems03 May 2023 | 12
FCA mulls listing rules after Hauser blames 'Brexit idiocy' for Arm's New York IPO Flotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU Systems03 May 2023 | 121
TSMC chips away at the competition with 2nm production set for 2025 World's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer also gives details on 3nm nodes Systems02 May 2023 | 6
Apple gives up legal war on iPhone CPU wizard who co-founded Nuvia Qualcomm acquisition dodges one bullet, Arm still coming for blood Systems01 May 2023 | 16
GlobalFoundries, STMicro snag €7.4B in EU money for French fab project Joint site to produce low-power chips Systems29 Apr 2023 | 1
SoftBank taps Arm CEO Rene Haas for its board of directors Ahead of planned IPO, parent company moves executive pawn into place Systems27 Apr 2023 | 3
UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry That's right – we're going to hold the world ransom for... ONE BILLION POUNDS! Systems27 Apr 2023 | 85
Weak memory demand leaves both Samsung and SK hynix nursing losses With inventory surplus still an issue, revenues are 'bottoming out' Systems27 Apr 2023 | 1
Bosch to acquire TSI Semiconductor with a view to EV chip fab retrofit Of course the German conglomerate expects Yankee cash for its trouble Systems27 Apr 2023 |
Hands off, vendors – it's for research! $11B of US CHIPS funds earmarked for NIST fabs Agency hopes program will keep US ahead of curve on semiconductor manufacturing Systems26 Apr 2023 | 7
Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024 Next year's revenue forecast to surpass the halcyon days of 2022 Systems26 Apr 2023 | 2
Taiwan asks US if it could chill out on the anti-China rhetoric We're trying to run a chip business here Systems21 Apr 2023 | 50
TSMC revenues slide for the first time in four years The world's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer isn't immune to ongoing chip slump Systems20 Apr 2023 | 3
Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech Building a wall... of code
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers Black Hat Asia The threat is coming from inside the supply chain
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens Just a small experiment – for now?
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled
Don't turn it off and on again: Expired Cisco cert cripples vEdge SD-WAN kit Updates said to be rolling out now... if your gateway hasn't already bricked itself
Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press Exclusive Workers slam 'horrendous' handling of layoffs that left even 'engineering managers in the dark'
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight
Broadcom chases AI craze with ML-tuned switch ASICs Faster GPUs don't mean much if you've got a network bottleneck Systems20 Apr 2023 |
GlobalFoundries sues IBM for flogging 'chip secrets to Intel, Rapidus' When it rains, it pours, huh, Pat? Systems19 Apr 2023 | 9
When you're ASML, not even a semiconductor downturn can dent your outlook Dutch lithography giant doesn't see China curbs affecting business either Systems19 Apr 2023 | 4
Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs If all goes well, Europe will double its market share in a decade Systems19 Apr 2023 | 21
Arm liable for $8.5B SoftBank loan if IPO is a no-show Chip designer has until September to float or it's on the hook for parent company's borrowing Systems18 Apr 2023 | 15
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Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north Systems16 Apr 2023 | 31
Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems Systems14 Apr 2023 | 13
China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high Despite US blocks to advanced technology nodes Systems14 Apr 2023 | 11
Germany and Intel both want more from planned Magdeburg mega-fab Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer Systems14 Apr 2023 | 4
Why we think Intel may be gearing up to push its GPU Max chips into China x86 giant cancels mid-tier processor, plans to relaunch nerfed parts for 'different markets' Systems11 Apr 2023 | 2
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Samsung scores fresh Radeon deal with AMD for Exynos chip line ahead of profit crunch Prelim Q1 2023 results expected to be company's worst in 14 years Systems06 Apr 2023 | 2
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Samsung takes $3.1B gamble on OLED displays for tablets and notebooks That must be why PC sales are down – the blacks just aren't inky enough Systems04 Apr 2023 | 18
Japan joins US, Netherlands in chipmaking tech export crackdown Latest rules stop short of naming you-know-who Systems02 Apr 2023 | 8
China sticks national security probe into America's Micron Looking for leaky memory, and possibly revenge Systems01 Apr 2023 | 16
Korea passes tax break-driven 'Chips Act' as protectionism fears mount Plus: Complains criteria for foreign companies to access US funding too strict. It's not a great sign, is it? Systems30 Mar 2023 | 3
Intel successfully ships an updated datacenter roadmap What we may well see in 2023 and beyond Systems30 Mar 2023 | 6
Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian Under pressure from activist investor, top brass agree to plot new course Systems30 Mar 2023 | 2
Diving DRAM prices are a problem not even AI can solve Analysts just don't see digi-brains making a difference to dismal demand that's caused deep discounting Systems29 Mar 2023 | 16
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman Systems29 Mar 2023 | 15
Micron writes off $1.43B in inventory as sales dive, claims only way is up AIs are going to need memory and storage silicon, you know Systems29 Mar 2023 | 8
Nexperia claims Newport Wafer may close if sale goes ahead Staff may head for exit, followed by customers, it would 'decimate' ops, says CEO Systems28 Mar 2023 | 7
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown Releasing 4% of workforce Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers Systems21 Mar 2023 | 1
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too Systems21 Mar 2023 | 2
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography GTC What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next Systems21 Mar 2023 | 4
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Qualcomm adds 'premium experiences' to Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 Tosses some features to mid-tier masses, including those buying upcoming Redmi, realme handsets Systems17 Mar 2023 | 9
Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers 'Soft errors' caused by neutrons are well known. This study suggests we might be making them more likely Energy Efficient Datacenters17 Mar 2023 | 40
As chip sales slump, inflation makes the price of Samsung's Texas fab blow out South Korean titan budgeted $17 billion. Could now need over $25 billion to bring the facility online Systems16 Mar 2023 | 2
Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder Free trade not quite as dead, 'but it's in danger' says Morris Chang Systems16 Mar 2023 | 29
Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI Chances its Arm that maker community is looking for a fresh SBC Systems15 Mar 2023 | 69
Samsung to splurge $230B on five new chip plants for South Korea Will build out domestic industry while it builds out US domestic industry... Systems15 Mar 2023 | 1
The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them Successful invasion would make China 'the OPEC of silicon chips' Systems14 Mar 2023 | 100
Industrial design: AMD brings 4th gen Epyc power to embedded applications 7-year availability as kit goes in hardware that hangs around much longer than average PC Systems14 Mar 2023 | 6
ReRAM redo: UCL spinout scores £7M to push Resistive RAM Remember the storage class memory that never took off? It's back Systems13 Mar 2023 | 10
Rambus takes charge of Arm’s CryptoCell, CryptoIsland IP Updated Building a watertight SoC? You'll have to go through IP-slinger now Systems10 Mar 2023 | 2
Brit chipmaker issues warning about inventory glut IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023 Systems10 Mar 2023 | 7
Cash-strapped Intel looks for $3B in savings to pursue '5 nodes in 4 years' dream Cheap as chips? Not in this case Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
AMD flips the bird at Intel as it glides past in CPU-GPU stakes CTO warns chips and process technology must be designed together more closely thanks to Moore's Law Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
China's semiconductor and IC imports have slumped. Why on Earth could that be? It looks like sanctions – and economic chills – are biting as total trade with EU, US and Japan declines Systems09 Mar 2023 | 23
Intel rattles the tin for another €5B in subsidies to build German fab Please, sir, we want some more Systems08 Mar 2023 | 21
While Intel XPUs are delayed, here's some more FPGAs to tide you over The F in F-Tile is for fast, right? Systems08 Mar 2023 | 3
China's government re-orgs Sci-Tech ministry to advance self-reliance push Leaders accuse Biden administration of neo-McCarthyism Systems08 Mar 2023 | 4
Nvidia in blast radius as Uncle Sam looks to cut off China's Huawei for good GeForced into a cold war Systems07 Mar 2023 | 9
As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000 Updated Good news: Jobs for all! Bad news: Employer may be invaded by China Systems06 Mar 2023 | 16
Fujitsu's A64FX successor will be an Arm-based datacenter chip Plus: Drops 'carbon-neutral' hints on successor processor with the moniker MONAKA Systems06 Mar 2023 | 7
Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London Foreign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now Systems03 Mar 2023 | 69
China's memory maker YMTC scores $7B to counter bans US isn't the only country splashing out the cash for fabs Systems03 Mar 2023 | 2
Arm co-founder: Britain's chip strat 'couldn’t be any worse' Lack of route to domestic semiconductor supply best of British stuffup, says Urquhart Systems02 Mar 2023 | 83
White House ban on US chip cash going into China ruffles South Koreans Pretty awkward for Samsung, SK Hynix and their Middle Kingdom fabs Systems02 Mar 2023 | 3
IBM teases AI-infused hybrid cloudy upgrade to z/OS - Bingo! Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders Systems01 Mar 2023 | 10
Chipmakers, you can have these billions – but Uncle Sam wants a cut of your profits Where's my money? You got money for wafers, where's my money? Systems28 Feb 2023 | 10
Semiconductor industry: To Hell with the environment, start building fabs already Otherwise Uncle Sam risks the whole purpose of the CHIPS Act Systems28 Feb 2023 | 17
SBOM is a 'massive galaxy of mess' for supply chain security SCSW Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply Systems28 Feb 2023 | 7
Biden wants chipmakers to provide childcare if they want billions in free money And, ahem, seven-figure ad campaigns on publications with a vulture for a logo – right, Joe? Systems28 Feb 2023 | 37
SpaceX lobs second-gen Starlink satellites into orbit But not the giant ones Musk previewed last year – those still can't get to space without Starship Systems28 Feb 2023 | 18
Sure looks like Beijing stole blueprints from chip fab world's ASML If at first you don’t succeed, spy, spy again Systems27 Feb 2023 | 37
US to impose caps on Korean chip shops working in China Multilateral trade actions also aim to stop China and Russia using biotech to create 'super soldiers'. Really! Systems24 Feb 2023 | 4
Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets Systems23 Feb 2023 | 54
Intel slashes shareholder dividend by two-thirds as cash crunch bites Sales will only be down 37 percent next quarter Pat promises Systems22 Feb 2023 | 2
Google claims milestone in quantum error correction 'We reached the break-even point' on roadmap, say boffins in peer reviewed paper, but it's still 'not good enough' Systems22 Feb 2023 | 8
Bosch-backed VCs pour more funds into Brit quantum silicon chips Pret and Starbucks rubbing hands with glee as some cash will go to larger London HQ Systems21 Feb 2023 |
Chinese boffins call for research on ‘countermeasures’ to US chip bans Suggest fundamental semiconductor physics research is needed if China is to build viable local industry Systems21 Feb 2023 | 15
Amazon mandates return to office for 300,000 corporate staff 'Easier to learn, model, practice, and strengthen our culture when we’re in the office together' 3 days a week, says CEO Systems20 Feb 2023 | 151
Intel coughs up for something other than stock buybacks: Avoiding wafer spoilage Defect-detecting Swiss biz inhales a cool $14 mill Systems17 Feb 2023 |
Still waiting for Intel's Aurora? Borealis will give you a taster Supercomputer deadline's been and Argonne, but for now, here's a testbed for boffins Systems17 Feb 2023 | 4
Infineon given the green light for €5B Dresden chip fab Still waiting for word on those sweet, sweet subsidies Systems17 Feb 2023 | 7
EU parliament sets out two draft bills to forge ahead with Chips Act Intel sees dollar signs, rubs its hands with glee Systems16 Feb 2023 | 5
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Chinese semiconductor industry: This Western chip ban alliance stinks Trade org claims restrictions will 'cause serious harm' globally Systems16 Feb 2023 | 21
Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around Systems16 Feb 2023 | 25
Intel Sapphire Rapids workstation chips tout up to 56 cores, unlocked SKUs Oh look, this x86 giant can ship more than just bugs, pink slips, and shareholder dividends Systems15 Feb 2023 | 6
ASML says Chinese employee stole data as US sanctions bite CEO hits out against export restrictions, saying they will hold back semi world Systems15 Feb 2023 | 11
IBM cheapens Oracle by delivering promised power-up for some POWER servers Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions! Spotlight on Databases15 Feb 2023 | 3