Semiconductor execs try to push UK government to do more for industry The national strategy was released in May – but execs say it's not nearly enough Systems03 Jul 2023 |
Russian military satellite comms provider offline after hack Infosec in brief ALSO: Ransomware hit on Mancunian Uni spills NHS patient deets, USPTO leaks inventor info, and this week's crit vulns Systems03 Jul 2023 |
Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons Chipzilla's not saying much other than 'commercial software' not affected Systems30 Jun 2023 | 14
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Memory chipmaker Micron's sales down 57% as market bottoms out Company eyes return to memory growth, but warns life on the China ban-list could be hard Systems29 Jun 2023 |
US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China To protect against weapons or economic interests – either way, it's bad news for some vendors Systems28 Jun 2023 | 5
AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips But can it run Crysis? Systems27 Jun 2023 | 16
Iceotope cooks plan for liquid-cooled servers at the edge Self-contained immersion-cooled chassis aimed at telcos, 5G RAN deployments with HPE, Intel help Systems26 Jun 2023 |
Rejecting Intel, Oracle pumps up Exadata beef cake with AMD protein Muscular system gets first update in two years with Epyc injection Systems23 Jun 2023 | 1
ASML caught in Dutch oven with China export restrictions Government could reveal details of new regulations by the end of month Systems23 Jun 2023 | 21
AMD's 128-core Epycs could spell trouble for Ampere Computing Analysis We still have more cores, exec sniffs Systems21 Jun 2023 | 15
Intel parts with 20% slice of semiconductor biz crucial to chip production future IMS Nanofabrication's expertise will only be more important – so why sell? Systems21 Jun 2023 | 2
AMD seeks luck of the Irish with $135M investment for adaptive computing R&D Pales in comparison to to rival Intel's presence in Dublin... for now Systems21 Jun 2023 |
Germany to subsidize Intel €10B for 'Silicon Junction' fab Plus: Taiwan dangles investment in semiconductor production in EU – but there's a catch Systems19 Jun 2023 | 14
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing Systems19 Jun 2023 | 13
Micron chips in $600M for China memory facility despite Beijing sanctions It's not very nice being blacklisted for no apparent reason, is it? Systems16 Jun 2023 | 3
Intel details coral-shaped immersion cooler that bubbles like Mentos in Coke In the future, you may boil your servers to keep them happy Systems15 Jun 2023 | 15
Intel approached to take on key investor role in Arm IPO Talks at an early stage but the companies already work together Systems14 Jun 2023 | 6
AMD's latest Epycs are bristling with cores, stacked to the gills with cache Zen giant's Instinct MI300 APUs, GPUs not quite ready for limelight Systems13 Jun 2023 |
AMD extends Ryzen 7000 range to enterprise with Pro chips Lines itself up against Apple's M2 Pro on battery life stakes, talks up AI abilities Systems13 Jun 2023 | 3
JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
German finance minister says nein to more Intel subsidy cash Int...hell no: Country's not looking to expand its chip fab budget Systems13 Jun 2023 | 17
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Former exec accused of trying to clone entire Samsung chip fab on Chinese soil 65-year-old allegedly stole 'blueprints and designs' for manufacturing sub-30nm DRAM and NAND Systems12 Jun 2023 | 4
Nexperia left off subsidies list as Germany chips away at Chinese connection The country has swallowed almost half of the EU's semiconductor funding Systems09 Jun 2023 | 6
EU greenlights billions for microelectronics under Chips Act Pumps money into sensors, processors, actuators and comms across 56 companies Systems08 Jun 2023 | 7
MediaTek accused of setting 'patent troll' on rival, says it will defend itself RealTek alleges MediaTek was paying Future Link a 'secret bounty' to file 'meritless' patent cases in US courts Systems08 Jun 2023 | 10
The challenges Intel faces to compete with TSMC, Samsung Analysis Fabs still need to be built, process tech needs to be proven – and Pat's gotta make it price competitive Systems06 Jun 2023 | 25
Intel promises to reduce droop with backside power in 2024 Business at the front, party in the rear via PowerVia Systems05 Jun 2023 | 2
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it Systems02 Jun 2023 | 2
Linux Foundation and pals – including Intel – back software ecosystem around RISC-V Aiming to get a RISE out of processor architecture as tech giants commit engineering talent Systems01 Jun 2023 | 24
What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip? Systems01 Jun 2023 |
Uncle Sam vows to Micron-manage China's memory chip ban Commerce Secretary says US 'won't tolerate' Beijing's 'economic coercion' Systems30 May 2023 | 10
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86 Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI Systems29 May 2023 | 3
China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight Asia in Brief PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status Systems28 May 2023 | 11
US and China trade chiefs aim for cool heads as chip wars heat up Commerce Secretary Raimondo asks WTF is going on with the Micron ban Systems26 May 2023 | 6
When it comes to liquid and immersion cooling, Nvidia asks: Why not both? Promises demo of new ways to chill out in the datacenter by 2026 Systems26 May 2023 | 2
Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode Systems25 May 2023 | 102
US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat Sound like anyone you know? Systems24 May 2023 | 17
Applied Materials wants Uncle Sam's help with $4B chip R&D nerve center Step right up and let us help you become dependent on us Systems22 May 2023 |
Intel abandons XPU plan to cram CPU, GPU, memory into one package ISC AMD now has clear runway to conquer datacenter APU market Systems22 May 2023 | 7
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them Comment Let's use AI to make better chips for AI, what could go wrong? Systems20 May 2023 | 3
Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards Maybe Jensen finally got the memo about the whole GPU shortage being over Systems19 May 2023 | 15
UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan Systems19 May 2023 | 36
Microsoft offers electrical engineers a lifeline as it pursues custom cloud silicon Redmond see, Redmond do... what AWS and Google are also doing Systems19 May 2023 | 3
Ampere heads off Intel, AMD's cloud-optimized CPUs with a 192-core Arm chip Just don't look too closely at the benchmarks Systems18 May 2023 | 19
Micron, Kyocera, Samsung bet billions on Japan chip plants Meanwhile, Fujifilm pursues photolithography interests in Taiwan Systems18 May 2023 | 3
Europe vows it won't let US and Asia treat it as a source of museum-grade chip tech With €43 billion at stake, Thierry Breton says that Europe should get advanced fabs Systems17 May 2023 | 28
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 | 7
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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 | 128
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 | 86
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 | 53
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
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
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