Google clamps down on Android app RAM usage amid AI memory crisis — developers have until February 2027 to adapt to new memory-optimizing rules
Google implements stricter memory limits and introduces new performance standards for Android apps.
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Intel says defect density of 14A process technology is declining rapidly as internal teams are already developing 14A-based products, while external clients are now wondering about capacity that Intel can provide them.
SK hynix breaks ground on HBM assembly plant in the U.S. that will form a connection between DRAM wafers produced in South Korea and their consumers among AI companies in the U.S.
I&M, which serves part of Indiana, says that it plans to cut electricity prices for the state, resulting in savings of about $59 million for residential users. This translates to about $100 a year for each home, with the savings coming from increased revenue from larger consumers like data centers.
Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up
The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them.
At Hot Chips 2026, Cerebras revealed the next two generations of its wafer-scale accelerator roadmap. It also discussed the benefits of its new Nexus rack design for the CS-4 rack-scale accelerator and the performance of the three WS-3T wafer-scale engines contained within.
Glass-core substrates, the replacement for organic chip packaging that Intel promised in September 2023, are now in final qualification but still not in a single commercial product
Nvidia expects Vera Rubin to become its fastest-ramping data center AI platform as it projects sales of Vera Rubin hardware to hit 20% of data center revenue in its third fiscal quarter.
Researchers discovered that most negotiations between data centers and local governments are protected by NDAs. These documents keep details in secret, with residents having a difficult time finding information about these projects because of the agreements.
An enterprising individual has successfully pre-sold enough advertisement sticker space on their dream MacBook’s lid to raise 111% of the laptop’s retail price.
An environmental group said that two new chemicals approved by the EPA for semiconductor manufacturing do not come with enough safeguards, so they're suing the agency for 'turning the new chemical review process on its head.'
Nvidia reportedly plans to buy Hugging Face at a price that exceeds its revenue by over 80 times, making it a major strategic investment in AI ecosystem.
OpenAI's first AI accelerator fails to beat Nvidia's Blackwell in terms of raw performance, but it can offer very good performance-per-watt and low latency, which is exactly what the doctor ordered for inference workloads.
Alienware delivers an ultra-wide flagship with its AW3926QW. This curved 21:9 RGB Stripe Tandem OLED panel boasts 5120x2160 pixels (WUHD), 165 and 330 Hz modes, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, Dolby Vision, HDR500 and wide gamut color.
Game studio MiTale Ltd. is promoting a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic RPG, which it claims is 'the first commercial game on the market utilizing quantum computing.'
The RTX 3060 12GB was revived to offer consumers a budget GPU with a relatively large VRAM pool, but it has succumbed to the same fate as every other SKU like it. Launched at around $330, most variants now cost close to $500.
Data centers are facing bipartisan resistance from across the nation, but what's the reason behind this? The answer seems to be deceptively simple.
Atari teams up with Activision to launch the Atari x Activision Collection, featuring 39 iconic Activision titles.
Nvidia's Q2 FY2027 revenue tops $96 billion as the company commits to buy up to $160 billion worth of memory, increasing its total commitments to $279 billion ahead of a major demand bump.
Nvidia has unveiled NVHBM, a custom high-bandwidth memory implementation that promises higher bandwidth and lower power for customers building chips within the NVLink Fusion partner program.
Igor Arsovski, now Nvidia's VP of hardware, presented the Groq 3 LPX rack's architecture and published the first third-party benchmark of the hardware.
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