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Amazon will buy up to 60 billion dollars of Qualcomm AI chips
The Qualcomm Amazon AI chip deal covers custom inference silicon and 1.6T optical interconnects, and turns a phone chip company into a data centre ...
ComputingNvidia GPUs, Google TPUs and AWS Trainium all run AI, but only one is rentable
A plain comparison of GPU vs TPU vs Trainium vs custom ASIC in 2026, including the part most explainers skip: three of the four are not for sale.
ComputingCXMT G5 DRAM is in mass production, and export controls did not stop it
CXMT G5 DRAM has reached mass production at 11.95nm using quadruple patterning, adding a fourth supplier to a memory market that is sold out into ...
ComputingCalifornia influencers face penalties for hiding political ad payments
California passed a law that penalises influencers for accepting undisclosed political payments, finally adding enforceable teeth to disclosure ...
ComputingUS Navy outlines autonomous and AI technology priorities for next decade
The US Navy's Chief Technology Officer outlined priorities including autonomous refuelling systems and AI capabilities, while signalling a shift ...
ComputingEveryone quotes qubit counts. Almost nobody quotes the one that matters.
Logical qubits versus physical qubits in 2026: the overhead ratio fell roughly tenfold this year across several unrelated hardware platforms at once.
ComputingFlock offers employee buyouts to shrink workforce
Workplace chat platform Flock is offering employee buyouts to voluntarily reduce headcount, preferring the approach to outright layoffs. The move ...
ComputingRAM is up 89 percent this year. Buy now, not in 2027.
Should you buy RAM now in 2026 or wait for prices to fall? DRAM is up over 400 percent since 2024 and every published forecast says 2027 is not the ...
ComputingVirginia is trying to slow down data centre development before it's too late
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has created an AI task force and moved to give local communities more say in data centre approvals, a ...
ComputingA 1500VA UPS for your home server is really a 900W UPS
Sizing a UPS for a home server or NAS comes down to watts, not VA, and runtime you will actually use. Here is the maths, plus five units worth buying.
ComputingNvidia promised to double chip shipments. Memory and substations may not let it.
Nvidia chip sales 2027 guidance doubles unit shipments. But $279 billion in supplier commitments now runs into tight DRAM supply and grid transformer ...
ComputingDisney hired its first ever CTO, and the pick is wild
Disney has appointed its first ever CTO in over a century of existence, and the choice is eyebrow-raising: Karandeep Anand, the former CEO of ...
ComputingGartner says memory prices climb 130% this year and AI is eating 70% of supply
RAM prices will not go down in 2026. Gartner forecasts a 130% surge, AI data centres take 70% of supply, and the earliest real relief is late 2027.
ComputingMazama Energy raises 135 million dollars to drill three miles down for geothermal power
Mazama Energy just closed a 135 million dollar round to drill three miles underground and tap superhot rock that can generate 15 megawatts per well ...
ComputingThe VRAM tier list, and exactly which AI models your GPU can run
Local LLM VRAM requirements in 2026, by tier. What 8GB, 16GB, 24GB and 48GB actually run, plus which model to pick at each level and why.
ComputingHuawei just moved its Nvidia rival forward by nine months
Huawei's Ascend 960 now lands in Q1 2027, nine months early. Here is how the Ascend 960 vs Nvidia comparison actually reads, and what still caps it.
ComputingCrusoe raises 3.9 billion dollars to build AI data centres powered by cleaner energy
Crusoe has closed a 3.9 billion dollar funding round at a 30.9 billion dollar valuation to build both giant data centres and smaller ...
ComputingMeta is making a camera-free version of its Ray-Ban glasses
After a run of bad press around its camera-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta is developing a camera-free version that keeps the speakers ...
ComputingApple is secretly building an AI server rack full of M-series Ultra chips
Apple is reportedly building a rack server loaded with multiple M-series Ultra chips, with a planned 2029 launch that would make it the company's ...
ComputingWhat you can actually run locally in 2026, by how much RAM you have
Local LLM hardware requirements by tier, from an 8GB laptop to a 128GB tower, plus the two rules that decide which models will actually fit on your ...
ComputingUS data centres could burn more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
A sobering new analysis projects that US data centres could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035, driven almost entirely ...
ComputingCornelis put processors inside the network to stop GPUs sitting idle
Cornelis Networks raised 205 million dollars for Active Compute Fabric, embedding RISC-V cores in NICs and switches to cut GPU time spent waiting on ...
ComputingAgility's new humanoid robot kneels down to avoid hurting people
Agility Robotics has updated its Digit humanoid to automatically stop and squat when it detects an imminent collision with a human coworker, a small ...
ComputingXiaomi's new Fold is aimed directly at Samsung's best phone
The Xiaomi 18 Fold launched 7 September with a wider cover screen and faster charging than Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8, and marks Xiaomi's first real ...
ComputingUnitree's 16,000 dollar robot was built by an obsessive cost-cutter
Unitree is selling a humanoid robot for 16,000 dollars, and the reason it can do that comes down to one founder's near-pathological obsession with ...