Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds
'The single biggest constraint is access,' says exec looking to invest 'hundreds of millions'One of the UK's major commercial property developers says it would be pumping investment into new...
View ArticleChinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist
Wouldn’t want to inadvertently fund the PLAThe US treasury department finalized a rule on Monday that limits domestic entities' investment in Chinese semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum...
View ArticleThe troublesome economics of CPU-only AI
At the end of the day, it all boils down to tokens per dollarAnalysis Today, most GenAI models are trained and run on GPUs or some other specialized accelerator, but that doesn't mean they have to be....
View ArticleUS Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot
Ominously-named bot can spot trouble from a mile away, distinguish threats from false alarms, says DoDThe US Army is testing a new AI product that it says can identify threats from a mile away, and all...
View ArticlexAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster
Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chipsUnlike most AI training clusters, xAI's Colossus with its 100,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs doesn't use InfiniBand. Instead, the massive...
View ArticleSoftbank CEO says 'super AI' will arrive in 2035 and cost $9T
Oh, and it'll need the total current US power outputVideo Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire behind Softbank, has predicted that an artificial superintelligence 10,000 times smarter than a human...
View ArticleAMD teases its GPU biz 'approaching the scale' of CPU operations
Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in InstinctAMD continued to ride a wave of demand for its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators – its...
View ArticleNo-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect
Ultra Accelerator Link consortium promises 200 gigabits per second per lane spec will debut in Q1 2025The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium – an alliance of enterprise tech vendors that pointedly...
View ArticleBrit Apple semi supplier IQE's CEO departs amid reshuffle
Big personnel changes happening as semiconductor materials seller looks set to list Taiwan biz in 2025In an unexpected personnel shake-up, IQE chief Americo Lemos has left the listed British...
View ArticleSketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills
If SMCI is the AI Enron, Ernst & Young wants nothing to do with themSupermicro shares took a nose dive on Wednesday, sliding more than 30 percent after the accounting firm hired to review its...
View ArticleUS Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
And what do you know, Google's former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solutionFormer Google chief Eric Schmidt thinks the US Army should expunge "useless" tanks and replace them with...
View ArticleApple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Busy week for Cupertino sees shrunken Mac minis, updated lappies, and new SoCsWith the arrival of its M4 silicon on the Mac this week, Apple wants the world to know that the silicon powering AI PCs is...
View ArticleUK gov report to propose special zones for datacenters, 'AI visas'
Vendors not keen on 'lengthy bureaucracy,' and cost when they try to hire skilled foreignersUK government is to recommend streamlining the visa process for those with AI skills and the creation of...
View ArticleSamsung blames 'one-off costs' as Q3 chip profits plummet 40%
Unexpected expenses in semiconductor division overshadow revenue gainsSamsung Electronics is blaming a quarter-on-quarter plunge in operating profits in its chips division on costs incurred, and says...
View ArticleUncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York
Given the cost of EUV litho machines, the Netherlands' ASML might be the real winner hereThe Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to invest $825 million in US CHIPS and Science Act funding...
View ArticleAmazon adds MFA to its enterprise email service ... eight years after launch
No rush, guysAmazon's cloud-hosted email service for enterprises now offers multifactor authentication, which is great, except that the service launched nearly a decade ago. …
View ArticleIntel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?
Improving revenue outlook has Chipzilla's shares back on a positive trajectory – for the moment anyway.Intel posted a $16.6 billion loss in the third quarter – the largest in the silicon veteran's...
View ArticleApple beats expectations, but drops in China
India saw an all-time revenue record and is poised for four more physical storesApple released its fourth quarter results for FY 2024 on Thursday, revealing that its sales in China were starting to...
View ArticleHide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running
Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can teaOn Call By the time Friday rolls around, The Register understands readers might just want to toss the rest of the working week away without a care for...
View ArticleHack Nintendo's alarm clock to show cat pics? Let's-a-go!
How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clockA hacker who uses the handle GaryOderNichts has found a way to break into Nintendo's recently launched Alarmo clock, and run code on the...
View ArticleIf Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap
60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sectorTariffs have become a major issue in the current US election, with former president Donald Trump claiming his plans to put a 10-20...
View ArticleMicrosoft tries out wooden bit barns to cut construction emissions
The two hybrid datacenters promise 35% less embodied carbon than steel builds, 65% less than concreteMicrosoft is experimenting with datacenters made out of wood in a bid to cut the growing greenhouse...
View ArticleFujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs
Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027Fujitsu and AMD announced plans on Friday to develop a new, more energy-efficient AI and HPC compute platform that will pair the...
View ArticleSingapore to increase road capacity by tracking all vehicles with GPS
Plus: China Unicom auctions off old cables; Japan's My Number Card also soon a driver's license; and Hong Kong chief executive warns US investment ban will backfireASIA IN BRIEF Singapore's Land...
View ArticleRelocation is a complete success – right up until the last minute
It may be a cliché to say 'Don't rest on your laurels' but you really shouldn'tWho, Me? Welcome to another working week, loyal readers, and another dose of Who, Me? – the Reg's weekly safe space in...
View ArticleGlobalFoundries fined $500K for violating US sanctions
Chip slinger fessed up, got off light, says Uncle SamUpdated The US Department of Commerce is issuing a half a million dollar penalty against US-based semiconductor wafer manufacturer GlobalFoundries...
View ArticleAmazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cites grid stability concernsAmazon has hit a roadblock in its plans for nuclear-powered US datacenters. Federal regulators rejected a deal that would let it draw...
View ArticleCHIPS Act funding in question as House Speaker waffles on plan to repeal bill
Breaking with Trump, Mike Johnson now suggests streamlining regulation out of funding billUPDATED The US CHIPS and Science Act's future may depend on the outcome of Tuesday's Presidential Election...
View ArticleMeta's plan for nuclear datacenter reportedly undone by bees
Environmental and regulatory obstacles led to the cancellation of an AI bit farm, report claimsMeta's plan to build a nuclear-powered datacenter for AI workloads has been undone by bugs, specifically...
View ArticleToyota and Joby complete Japan's first air taxi flight test
Automaker bets big on startup while other promising eVTOL companies scrape around for fundingJoby Aviation – backed by Japanese automotive giant Toyota – conducted Japan's first electric vertical...
View ArticleGrindr used RTO to screw union, labor watchdog claims
Back-to-office order forced dating app staff to swipe leftThe US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Friday issued a complaint against California-based LGBTQ dating app Grindr alleging the biz's...
View ArticleApple 'broke law' by pushing out labor-organizing dev
Violation of labor rights? By the iTitan? Surely not!The hot water in which the National Labor Relations Board has been boiling Apple is getting deeper, as the US workers' rights body has issued yet...
View ArticleFrench govt gives thumbs up to nationalizing Atos
No surrendering of IT giant piece by pieceFrance's Finance Ministry has approved a proposal to nationalize French tech behemoth Atos and has allocated €70 million to explore the deal.…
View ArticleBroadcom juices VeloCloud SD-WAN for AI networking
VeloRAIN architecture improves service for fat workloads on the edgeVMware Explore Amid all the drama regarding Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, it's been easy to forget that the virtualization...
View ArticleFormer Facebook lobbyist joins UK comms regulator as non-exec director
Who better to watch the watchmen?Updated A former Vice President of Public Policy for Facebook is among the new faces to join the board at Britain's telecoms regulator, Ofcom.…
View ArticleUK watchdog hints Voda-Three merger will likely pass
Game of Phones settles into its final chapterBritain's competition regulator says it is minded to approve the merger of telcos Vodafone and Three UK, if the pair commit to network upgrades and...
View ArticleJensen Huang asked SK hynix to give Nvidia 12-layer HBM4 chips earlier
12-layer HBM3E hardly off the manufacturing lineNvidia CEO Jensen Huang asked Korean chipmaker SK hynix to pull forward delivery of 12-layer HBM4 chips by half a year, according to the company's group...
View ArticleJapan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space
Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuffJapan's wooden satellite has been launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a mission to prove that wood can be a viable...
View ArticleNew Jersey man admits shipping sanctions-busting tech to Russia
Smuggler busted on the border carrying naughty itemsVadim Yermolenko, 43, a dual US-Russian national and resident of New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his role in sanctions...
View ArticleYour air fryer might be snitching on you to China
Report shines light on unexpected ways your devices sell you outUK consumer champion Which? wants you to know that your air fryer might be spying on you and sharing your data with third parties for...
View ArticleMozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off
Firefox overlord to 'revisit' advocacy missionThe Mozilla Foundation is laying off about a third of its staff. The non-profit org, which oversees the corporation that develops the Firefox web browser,...
View ArticleA new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia's tech hub
Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with techIf an entire major city was designed from scratch today, what technologies would be built into its fabric? We're discovering as we...
View ArticleMeta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys
Change of mind follows discovery China was playing with it uninvited?Meta has historically restricted its LLMs from uses that could cause harm – but that has apparently changed. The Facebook giant has...
View ArticleDow swaps Intel for Nvidia leaving no index free from wild AI volatility
Won't make a difference for institutional investors, but retail traders be warned, analyst tells El RegOn Friday, Nvidia will supplant Intel after 25 years as the semiconductor sector's representative...
View ArticleWant advice from UK government website about tax 'n' stuff? Talk to the chatbot
Need to know how to set up a business? There's an (experimental) AI for thatFrom the department of "this will go well" comes confirmation UK government is trialling an experimental chatbot with 15,000...
View ArticleUK orders Chinese biz to sell majority stake in Scottish chipmaker
Government invokes National Security and Investment ActThe British government has ordered a China-owned entity to sell its stake in a Scottish chip company under the authority of the National Security...
View ArticleAT&T settles claims it misappropriated subsidies, with partial admission...
Changes at the telco giant called for to prevent future abuseAT&T settled with the FCC over claims it submitted false information to obtain funding from US broadband subsidy programs for low-income...
View ArticleEU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance
US firm made OEMs, glass processors sign exclusivity deals, tattle on competitors, claims Euro CommishCorning's Gorilla Glass is found in countless tech products, from smartphones and wearables to...
View ArticleIntel sued over Raptor Lake voltage instability
Failure to warn customers about chip flaw leads to fraud claimIntel was sued in a federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, based on claims that the chipmaker's 13th and 14th generation...
View ArticleAI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan's engineers in $50M government deal
Government wants to make semiconductors big on home turf againJapan has asked AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train up to 200 chip designers from the country at its US offices over the course of five...
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