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Chips & compute

265 stories

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubvercel-labs/agent-desktop

11.04

EE TimesSiliconIs There Room for Small-Scale OSATs in India’s Chip Packaging Boom? India’s expanding outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) industry is creating opportunities for smaller, specialized packaging facilities alongside large, capital-intensive plants.…

11.03
Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg TechnologyValleyAMD Forecast Exceeds Estimates as AI Chip Demand Soars Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a key challenger to Nvidia Corp. in artificial intelligence chips, gave a revenue forecast that exceeded analysts’ estimates, showing that demand for data center…

11.03

TechCrunch AIValleyData centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet…

11.03
Financial Times Tech

Financial Times TechEuropeFirstFT: US voters cast midterm verdict on Trump Also in today’s newsletter: Nvidia orders data centre clients to reduce China exposure and former Weil partners lawyer up

11.03

The Next PlatformSiliconMarvell Cuts To The Front Of The Datacenter Optics Line With Lumentum Deal For a long while, like several decades now, many of us have been waiting for silicon photonics to co ...

11.03

AMD NewsroomSiliconAMD Reports Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results AMD delivers record quarter as Data Center segment revenue grows 97% year-over-year, driven by record sales of AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC…...

11.03

TechPowerUpSiliconGPU Prices Up Again in October, RTX 5090 Now Sells for 262% Over MSRP Worldwide In a big surprise to no one, graphics card prices went up again in October. TechSpot's latest survey across 10 countries shows GPU prices rising 11% month over month, following a 15% jump in August…

11.03

NVIDIA BlogSiliconAI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work — and Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It Demand for advanced chips is rising. The processes to build them are getting more complex. And the margin for error is shrinking.

11.03

Tom's HardwareSiliconOpenAI introduces program to reduce AI data center energy demand during peak hours Electricity consumption is one of the biggest concerns that residents bring up whenever a data center is proposed in their community, which is why OpenAI is taking steps to minimize its impact on the…

11.03

PhoronixSiliconRadeonSI & RADV Now Enabling D16 Support For GFX8 Era GPUs Thanks to the latest work by Georg Lehmann of Valve's Linux graphics team, the AMD GFX8 generation of GPUs that stretch from GCN Volcanic Islands through Polaris GPUs is still seeing improved Linux…

11.03
Financial Times Tech

Financial Times TechEuropeApple warns ‘unprecedented’ memory chip costs will hit margins Shares in iPhone maker slip as warning overshadows forecast for robust sales during the key holiday season

11.03

Wired AIValley‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.

11.03

SemiEngineeringSiliconChip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Nov. 3 New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Meter-scale quantum interconnects between large quantum processors IBM Research…

11.03

NVIDIA BlogSiliconCities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI Cities generate enormous amounts of data from cameras, sensors and operational systems, but turning it into useful action — for planning, maintenance and public services — remains a challenge.

11.03

TechNodeAsiaVisual brain-computer interface developer Nanochap raises RMB 500 million Nanochap, a Hangzhou-based developer of brain-computer interfaces for vision restoration, announced RMB 500 million in Series C+ funding on November 3.

11.03

NVIDIA Technical BlogSiliconDiagnose Distributed AI Workload Failures with NVIDIA Attribution In distributed AI workloads, a single error can produce a cascade of symptoms. A GPU or fabric event may surface as NCCL errors on other ranks, scheduler state...

11.02

The Next PlatformSiliconQualcomm Has Eyes On The AI Inference Datacenter With HBC And AI250 Qualcomm executives this summer introduced an architecture called high-bandwidth computing (HBC), th ...

11.02

NVIDIA Technical BlogSiliconMaking Kubernetes AI-Ready for NVIDIA Vera Rubin on Day One Configuring and optimizing Kubernetes for new GPU hardware such as NVIDIA Vera Rubin is complex and error-prone. Drivers, kernels, runtimes, networking,...

11.02
Hacker News Show

Hacker News ShowGitHubShow HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

11.02

InfoQ AIGitHubGoogle and Meta Open-source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs.

11.02

Exponential ViewVoices📈 Political ads turn against data centers Hi all, Here’s the latest roundup of our data signals across AI, energy & markets. In the AI Investment Brief today: October revenue updates plus a funding quality alert Super, apparently.

11.02

ServeTheHomeSiliconLiquid-Cooled NVIDIA Servers at the ASRock Rack OCP 2026 Booth We checked out the ASRock Rack booth at OCP 2026 and saw servers ranging from fully integrated NVIDIA NVL72 racks to liquid-cooled switches

11.02
TLDR AI

TLDR AIVoicesDeepSeek super agent 🤖, GPT-6 Rosalind 🧬, Google orbital compute 🛰️ dsh-superagent is a coding agent packaged as a bundle for DeepSeek Harness. GPT-Rosalind-6 is a frontier reasoning model for biology, drug discovery, and…

11.02