Company pushes 800 VDC to feed power-hungry GPUs and cut copper

Nvidia has admitted that alternating current is no longer up to the job in AI data centres where inferencing surges and bandwidth spikes are battering power infrastructure.

CXMT hands Huawei a taste of local HBM

China’s memory outfit ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has managed to get HBM3 samples out the door and into the hands of local AI firms, with Huawei among the first in line.

Cambridge boffins say your eyes can’t tell the difference

It turns out those extra pixels crammed into flashy 4K and 8K TVs might be nothing more than showroom nonsense.

Nadella snubs tech bros contract grovelling

While the rest of the US tech industry has tripped over itself trying to please President Donald Trump, Microsoft has refused to play along and Computerworld thinks that is soon going to come with a hefty price tag.

Snapdragon slinger gets Humain and Saudi cash to back its first data centre silicon

Qualcomm saw its shares spike by 20 per cent after it revealed its first AI-focused data centre chips in a desperate attempt to chip away at Nvidia’s vice grip on the market.

DRAM and logic packaging orders on the rise, says CEO

Powertech Technology (PTI) chief Xie Yongda says the company is looking at a strong fourth quarter as AI demand gives memory packaging and testing a much-needed jolt.

Pegatron's Tong Zixian reckons Samsung and Intel are playing catch-up

Samsung might be bagging more US business, but Pegatron chairman Tong Zixian says Taiwan’s chip champ TSMC has nothing to worry about yet.

Lux and Discovery to fly the flag

AMD has landed a deal with the US government to supply silicon for two heavy-duty supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Repair specialist says Nvidia's flagship card is a modder’s nightmare

Nvidia's RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been labelled a disaster by repair experts after a failed attempt to add water cooling rendered the GPU completely unfixable.

“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered 

AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.