The increasing demands of AI are driving innovation and investment in hardware infrastructure, including data centers, networking, and power solutions. This includes discussions on spatial data centers, energy efficiency, and supply chain considerations.
ASML announced that its High-NA EUV tools are ready for mass production. This long-awaited breakthrough will enable chip manufacturers to create denser and more powerful circuits, paving the way for a new generation of AI chips. TSMC and Intel are am...
Block, Jack Dorsey's financial services company, has announced it will lay off 40 percent of its staff – around 4,000 people. The decision is attributed to the implementation of new "intelligence tools" that the company claims can perform the same ta...
Residents near xAI's temporary power plant in Mississippi complain about constant noise from 27 gas turbines. The company, founded by Elon Musk, is installing the turbines to power its artificial intelligence projects, but neighbors report a negative...
Meta intensifies its bet on artificial intelligence, with a US$100 billion investment focused on recursive AI and real-world agents. The company is exploring two main directions for future growth, aiming to increasingly integrate AI into daily intera...
The San Francisco-based AI lab, OpenAI, is growing its research team in London. This move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.
Former President Trump proposes a plan to reduce energy costs for AI data centers, urging tech companies to generate their own power. The initiative includes a pledge to protect end consumers.
The increasing demand for AI servers is significantly impacting component manufacturers. APEC, a Taiwanese company specializing in power devices, is benefiting from higher demand for high-voltage MOSFETs and advanced cooling systems for these servers...
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is investigating Microsoft for potential violations of anti-monopoly laws. The probe appears to focus on software licensing practices, similar to concerns raised in Europe. Microsoft states it is fully cooperating with t...
The growing demand for artificial intelligence in the cloud is unexpectedly revitalizing the production of 8-inch wafers. This phenomenon, reported by DIGITIMES, highlights how AI needs are influencing the entire semiconductor supply chain, with impl...
Nvidia has assessed the feasibility of building data centers in space, highlighting that, while technically feasible, the implementation is not economically advantageous at present.
Nvidia announces another record quarter, driven by exponential demand. CEO Jensen Huang highlights that growth is fueled by the increasing demand for tokens in the AI world.
Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases related to AI model training and inference. The initiative aims to ensure greater transparency and sustainability in the sector.
Pretraining modern large language models (LLM) with over 100 billion parameters involves thousands of accelerators and massive token corpora, running for days or months. Success is measured by data processing speed and learning progress.
AMD introduces the EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series, energy-efficient single-socket processors based on Zen 5 architecture. Designed for the telco and edge computing markets, they offer up to 84 CPU cores.
Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies—including bans on new construction. Concerns revolve around environmental impact, resource consumption, and data sovereignty.
The increasing demand for servers for artificial intelligence applications in China is causing strain in the supply chain of key components such as optical modules and multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). Baidu is among the main players involved.
Delays in the Stargate project, a supercomputer in collaboration with Microsoft, are reportedly pushing OpenAI to evaluate alternative options for the computing power needed for its artificial intelligence models. The company is exploring various sol...
Data center developers are building private natural gas power plants to power their infrastructures, bypassing strained power grids. A project in Texas will reportedly use as much power as the city of Chicago.
The increasing demand for computing power for artificial intelligence is driving the evolution of rack infrastructures. Data centers are preparing to support increasingly intensive workloads, with a focus on energy efficiency and compute density.
Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. A radical proposal suggests launching them into orbit to reduce the ecological footprint. The costs and technical feasibility of such an approach remain to be assessed.
