Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI — Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM
Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI model serving space for extremely low-latency, high-throughput inference, enabling services like OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.…
6 Sol Ultrafast tier.
At Hot Chips 2026, the company revealed the next two generations of it…
It also discussed the benefits of its new Nexus rack design for the CS…
Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped
The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them, including laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, eight unnamed sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO in a report published today.…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick favors a structure that would cap du…
production, four of the sources said, and Commerce officials have indi…
A phase-in period is under discussion, and the framework could still c…
Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history
Nvidia expects sales of the Vera Rubin platform to account for around 20% of its data center revenue in the third quarter of its fiscal year 2027, which will make it the company's fastest-ramping data center product in history.…
As Nvidia projects its revenue to be around $108 billion in Q3 FY2027,…
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"Having already received purchase orders from every major hyperscaler,…
Glass substrate roadmaps examined — Absolics in final qualification and a first product that keeps slipping
Glass-core substrates, the replacement for organic chip packaging that Intel promised in September 2023 with more than $1 billion behind it, are now in final qualification.…
However, the product is still not in a single commercial product.
SKC, a material manufacturer and chemical affiliate of the SK Group, s…
Many talks between data center developers and local governments are under NDA — residents question the needs for secrecy, but developer argues it’s important to avoid ‘running afoul of insider trading
Researchers from the University of Mary Washington in Virginia found that of the 31 localities with an existing, approved, or proposed data center, 25 of them have non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that make it difficult, if not impossible, for their citizens to find information about these projects.…
According to NPR, these NDAs have left the questions of many residents…
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Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois even told the…
NewPower Worldwide Expands Credit Facility to $750 Million to Support Global Growth and Customer Demand
NASHUA, New Hampshire – NewPower Worldwide, one of the electronics industry’s fastest-growing distributors, today announced it has expanded its committed credit facility to $750 million, further
Save up to 61% on gaming PCs, laptops, and more in HP's Labor Day 2026 sale — huge discounts on a range of hardware, monitors, and peripherals
Ahead of the Labor Day weekend, HP is hosting its Labor Day sales event with discounts of up to 65% on HP gaming PCs, desktop computers, gaming and productivity laptops, and HyperX peripherals.…
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Ingenious indie hacker funds $3,000 MacBook purchase by selling advertising space on the lid — sticker space auction has already raised 111% of the price of the laptop
An enterprising founder and indie hacker has successfully pre-sold enough advertisement sticker space on his dream MacBook’s lid to raise 111% of the laptop’s retail price.…
Vincent, AKA @VynseDev on Twitter/X, has so far raised $3,274 across a…
With over 12 days of the auction remaining, it isn’t beyond the realm …
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Hot Chips 2026: OpenAI's Jalapeño AI ASIC unpacked — accelerator developed using AI achieves efficiency and throughput gains against power-hungry Blackwell
OpenAI made quite a splash back in June, when it unveiled its 'Jalapeño' AI accelerator and revealed that the chip reached tape-out in just nine months.…
At the Hot Chips conference, OpenAI disclosed more details about the a…
The company claims its NUMA-style spatial architecture enables Jalapeñ…
(Image credit: OpenAI)A massive chip with massive scalingOpenAI's Jala…
EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also app
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently given two new chemicals approval for use within the U.…
, but the non-profit organization Earthjustice is suing the agency for…
According to a lawsuit reported by The Guardian, these chemicals are p…
Exposure to them could allegedly lead to “sudden death,” as well as va…
Beat PC component price rises with this unbelievably good value 9800X3D gaming desktop — get an RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5, and a 2TB SSD all for less than $2,000
Gaming PC building is getting more expensive by the minute, but price hikes on RAM, SSDs, and GPUs are filtering down more slowly to pre-built gaming desktops, making them better value than DIY in this economy.…
Best Buy has slashed $300 off this CyberPowerPC, which gets you a very…
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The 32GB of DDR5 RAM will cost you $400 alone, while a Gen 4 2TB SSD i…
$215 discount turns Corsair's DDR5-6000 Vengeance memory kit into the cheapest 32GB of RAM at those speeds — 35% saving as stock dwindles and prices continue to rise
When it comes to building a new PC, memory has seen the sharpest rise in pricing in years.…
Now, you have to seriously consider the cost of the RAM kit in your bu…
Currently, the prices continue to rise with no end in sight.
It's hard to suggest holding off on upgrading now, as we have no clue …
Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware — Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs a wild $999.96
Atari has officially unveiled the Atari x Activision Collection, a compilation featuring 39 classic Activision games on physical cartridges.…
An individual cartridge starts at $34.
98, while the Ultimate Deluxe Set, which includes all 39 games, costs …
Atari and Activision's latest collaboration brings the nostalgia and v…
Hardware modder builds overclocked PS3 ‘Pro’ v3 with 3D-printed cooling mod — dual Noctua fans and server heatsinks provide FPS boost in 'almost every game'
A Sony PlayStation 3 console modder has shared images and details of their ‘PS3 Pro v3’ design.…
On the PS3 subreddit, Fun-Equivalent-7785 showcases this project, whic…
While you may love or hate the new aesthetic, the results seem impress…
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Polls reveal local utility hikes and noise drive US data center protests, not anti-AI sentiment— beliefs and political affiliation had minimal impact on AI data center views
Data centers are unpopular among U.S.citizens right now, with projects facing resistance and moratoriums across the nation.…
While we’ve seen over a hundred protests against the developments happ…
From GAA To CFET: Scaling Transistors For The AI Era
By Urmimala Roy, Xi-Wei Lin, and Ravi Todi Two years ago, we introduced why the industry was moving to gate‑all‑around (GAA) transistors and why Foundation IP co-optimized with electronic design automation (EDA) flows would be key to success to making that transition work.…
Since then, GAA has moved from early adoption into the mainstream of l…
As designs push past the 2nm node, the architectures that carried CMOS…
Each new node must deliver better power, performance, and area (PPA) w…