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IBM Flags Up NorthPole Chip To Scale AI – Though It's Still Far From Shipping

Paper describes work in massively parallel, interconnected system – with limits to data in on-chip memory IBM is back... Read more

That Script I Wrote Three Years Ago Is Now Doing What? How Many Times?

Whipping up a RAID repair nearly produced data doom Who, Me?  Welcome once again to the wafer-thin buffer between the ... Read more

India Plans Semiconductor Research Institute To Rival The World's Finest

And gives itself five years to build silicon photonics cores India's government has endorsed two massive investments in... Read more

There's No Huawei Chinese Chipmakers Can Fill Nvidia's Shoes... Anytime Soon

Chinese AI and GPU vendors face a less than fab-ulous dilemma where to get their chips built moving forward Analysis  ... Read more

Still Got A Job At The End Of This Week? You're Lucky, As More Layoffs Hit The Tech Industry

'Beatings will continue until morale improves' Kettle  It has been a bad week for thousands of tech workers this week,... Read more

Web Summit CEO's Comments On Israeli Conflict 'war Crimes' Sparks Boycott

Intel, Siemens, Google, Meta, and Stripe among event walkouts Meta and Stripe have joined Google, Intel, and Siemens in... Read more

Net Neutrality Is Back In The Land Of The Free – For Now

Until the Democrats leave office, that is The FCC has voted on a plan to reinstate net neutrality rules that require IS... Read more

Look Ma, No Fans: Mini PC Boasts Slimline Solid-state Active Cooling System

Hong Kong-based maker claims cooler is 'silent' A Hong Kong-based PC maker is claiming a first with the release of a Mi... Read more

Imagine A World Without Egress Fees Or Cloud Software License Disparities

UK regulator lists series of potential remedies for anti-competitive practices early on in probe The UK's competition r... Read more

How India Uses AI In Businesses

Author: Ricardo Goulart                           ... Read more

Royal College Considers No Confidence Move After Excel Recruitment Debacle

Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account The Royal College of Anaesthet... Read more

AMD Gives 7000-series Threadrippers A Frequency Bump With Epyc Core Counts

Workstation CPUs hit 96 cores, high-end desktops get 64. Prices nearly as high as clock speeds AMD has launched 7,000-s... Read more

US Government's Login.gov Turns Frown Upside Down, Now Smiles On Facial Recognition

Authentication portal to match snaps on existing IDs with user-provided snaps The US General Services Administration (G... Read more

Biden Has Brought The Ban Hammer Down On US Export Of AI Chips To China

Datacenter GPUs and some consumer cards now exceed performance limits Analysis  With the latest round of trade restric... Read more

World's Largest Chipmaker TSMC's Sales Down On Last Year, Says Upswing 'coming'

Isn't that what it said last time? Premium chips are picking up ... no really TSMC has posted another double-digit year... Read more