Q&A with Micron’s VP and GM of Memory
The Opportunity and Demand of DRAM + HBM
June 2026
RSSThree HPC Gurus Ask: Do We Still Need GPUs?
The Lab Mistake That Might Revolutionize Computing
Today, you probably asked a question of a large language model, or accepted a connection suggestion on LinkedIn, or watched a recommended video on YouTube, or took a different route to work based on a traffic prediction from Google Maps. In other words, you probably used artificial intelligence. But what you might not…
Records Fall for 3D Chip Tech
As transistor sizes shrink to their atomic limits, computing demands are only growing. Sending chips to the third dimension is the future: Chips stacked on other chips can get more work done in the same footprint, saving time and energy. A 3D chipmaking technology called hybrid bonding is leading the charge in such…
Future Transistor Stacking Plans Start to Diverge
Chipmakers agree that the transistor of the next decade will actually be two transistors stacked atop one another, packing in many more devices in the same area of silicon and leading to circuits that are as little as half the size of today’s. But their research efforts are beginning to show some important divergence…
IBM Announces 0.7nm Process Node, Introduces NanoStack
666 Million Transistors Per Square Millimeter
AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine
Summary RFIC design is a complex “dark art” that limits progress in wireless technologies like 5G, autonomous vehicles, and satellite communications. Princeton researchers use reinforcement learning and inverse design to rapidly create RFICs from scratch. Diffusion models rapidly generate novel or human-interpretable…
The EU Wants Its Own Tech Supply Chain
It’s little secret that Europe is dependent on foreign technology—particularly U.S. tech—for office software, cloud services, AI, and more. This may have been easy to accept just several years ago, but when the United States government now openly threatens European countries with military action, there is growing…
Samsung Unveils Industry’s Fastest UFS 5.0 Solution for Next-Gen On-Device AI Applications
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology today announced that, for the first time in the industry, it has developed the industry’s fastest Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 5.0 solution, which will help enable seamless and highly efficient AI services on future mobile devices. The milestone sets…
Arm servers capture over 45% of data center market revenue
Arm-based servers accounted for nearly half of server revenue in Q1 2026, challenging x86. But in the coming years, they might catch up unit wise as well.
The Secret Life of Computers
A brilliant and fun exposition of the development of computer technology
Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom's aggressive subscription model
Tesco UK supermarket chain moves 40,000 servers off of VMWare infrastructure — mass exodus continues thanks to Broadcom's pricing shenanigans
The Server Boom Balances Price Increases Against Chip Shortages
Tensordyne Converts AI Matrix Math To Logs To Crank Up Inference Oomph
QuEra’s Libra Fault-Tolerant Quantum System Heading To Amazon Braket Service
Semiconductor Startup Builds Alternatives for Vital Legacy Chips
When the U.S. Navy’s fleet of F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets is headed for the scrap heap because an essential chip is unavailable, what do they do? They turn to Ryan Hatcher, the CEO and founder of Phoenix Semiconductor. Hatcher repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors into devices that are virtually identical to…
More Power To You – And To The Datacenters
LPDDR6: Samsung/SK Hynix at ISSCC 2026
The Future of Memory
Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens
Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.
Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ that operate as a low-cost data center
A team of researchers from UC San Diego found that 'old' smartphones from 2023 could be combined to build a server capable of running apps locally, instead of relying on cloud servers located on a distant site.
AWS Tunes Up Graviton5 For Agentic AI, Boosts Bang For The Buck Bigtime
Nashville Zoo pushes back on 1.6-acre data center build near animal habitats
The Nashville Zoo is pushing back on a proposed data center build, which would place servers in proximity with animal habitats.
Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers
Astera Labs has shown off the Scorpio X-Series 320-lane PCIe switch that promises to enable vendor-agnostic scale-up capability for AI infrastructure and disaggregated data center infrastructure.
Floating Point: The Origin Story
Where does floating point arithmetic come from?
Nvidia's New Old Chip
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Supermicro shows off Vera Rubin NVL72 rack with all-new type of coolant
Supermicro demonstrates upcoming servers based on AMD’s EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs, MI450 accelerators, and Nvidia’s Vera Rubin-based solutions.