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Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-16 | by Anton Shilov | get Qualcomm AI Development Kit → | tags: qualcomm, tenstorrent, jim keller

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China drafts $295 billion plan to build national AI data center grid running on 80% homemade silicon — projected 2028 timeline could run into limits of local chip production (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-10 | by Luke James | get AI Data Center Kit → | tags: accelerators, china, chips

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AMD's Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD's Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-04 | by Anton Shilov | get AMD Ryzen 9 7950X → | tags: accelerators, ethernet, helios

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Astera Labs showcases 320-lane PCIe 6.0 switch for vendor-agnostic scaling in data centers — up to 80 accelerators can be scaled up using PCIe alone (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-03 | by Anton Shilov | get PCIe 6.0 Switch → | tags: accelerators, astera, astera labs

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Jensen says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired' (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-03 | by Anton Shilov | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, jensen huang, china

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Samsung and SK hynix warn AI-driven memory shortages could last until 2027 and beyond, as HBM demand explodes — customers already reserving supply years ahead, while the wider DRAM market begins to tighten (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-30 | by Etiido Uko | get Samsung 32GB DDR5 RAM → | tags: samsung, sk hynix, hbm

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TSMC's details next-gen CoWoS roadmap: over 14-reticle packages and 48x leap in compute power expected by 2029 — massive size enables 24 HBM5E stacks and additional memory bandwidth jump (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-27 | by Anton Shilov | get High-Performance Computing Memory Kit → | tags: tsmc, cowos, hbm5e

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SpaceX says it is going to begin manufacturing GPUs — $1.75 trillion IPO listing reportedly includes in-house GPU production (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-23 | by Anton Shilov | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: spacex, gpus, tesla

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Meta commits to 1 gigawatt of custom chips with Broadcom as Hock Tan decides to leave board (cnbc.com)

2026-04-14 | by Katie Tarasov Jordan Novet | get Broadcom Chip Development Kit → | tags: meta, broadcom, ai accelerators

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Meta commits to 1 gigawatt of custom chips with Broadcom as Hock Tan agrees to leave board (cnbc.com)

2026-04-14 | by Katie Tarasov Jordan Novet | get Broadcom Custom Chip Kit → | tags: meta, broadcom, ai accelerators

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Meta commits to one gigawatt of custom chips with Broadcom as Hock Tan agrees to leave board (cnbc.com)

2026-04-14 | by Katie Tarasov Jordan Novet | get Broadcom Chip Development Kit → | tags: meta, broadcom, ai accelerators

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Intel and SambaNova team up on heterogenous AI inference platform — different hardware performs different workloads (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-08 | by Anton Shilov | get Intel Xeon Processor → | tags: intel, sambanova, xeon 6

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Memory will consume 30% of hyperscaler AI data center spending this year, a 4X increase over 2023 — Nvidia gets preferential supply terms well below standard market rates, says analyst firm (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-03 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, hyperscaler, dram

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Why Nvidia just poured $2 billion into AI ASIC competitor Marvell — NVLink Fusion turns into soft ecosystem lock-in (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-02 | by Luke James | get Nvidia NVLink Bridge → | tags: nvidia, marvell, nvlink

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Ollama adopts MLX for faster AI performance on Apple silicon Macs (9to5mac.com)

2026-03-31 | by Marcus Mendes | get MLX AI Developer Kit → | tags: apple silicon, mlx, hugging face

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US gov't revokes controversial AI hardware export rule that would mandate investments from foreign companies — new export rules are still in the works, though (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-14 | by Anton Shilov | get AI Hardware Export Kit → | tags: ai accelerators, u.s. commerce department, nvidia gb300

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FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | by Tom Clynes | get Radiation Therapy → | tags: cancer treatment, linear particle accelerators, cern

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UALink roadmap plots course to optimized AI data center interconnects — examining the open standard designed to combat vendor lock-in while offering cost and performance optimization (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-20 | by Anton Shilov | get Optimized AI Data Center Interconnects → | tags: accelerators, ethernet, hardware

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Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | get GPU → | tags: accelerators, furiosa, nxt rngd

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AMD touts Instinct MI430X, MI440X, and MI455X AI accelerators and Helios rack-scale AI architecture at CES — full MI400-series family fulfills a broad range of infrastructure and customer requirements (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-06 | by Anton Shilov | get AI accelerator → | tags: accelerators, helios, instinct

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Here’s why visiting museums between Christmas and New Year’s makes me a better leader (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-25 | get Art Museum → | tags: accelerators, accelerators techstars, awards

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Huawei's AI chip capabilities still pale in comparison to American silicon — report from U.S. council details that despite fears, Nvidia continues to lead by a wide margin (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Luke James | get GPU → | tags: accelerators, advanced, ascend

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The RAM pricing crisis has only just started, Team Group GM warns — says problem will get worse in 2026 as DRAM and NAND prices double in one month (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-01 | by Anton Shilov | get Memory → | tags: accelerators, commodity, dram

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AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system — EPYC 'Venice' and Instinct MI430X powered system breaks the ExaFLOP barrier (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-18 | by Anton Shilov | get EPYC Venice → | tags: accelerators, alice, alice recoque

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AMD's Lisa Su confirms 2026 arrival of 2nm Venice Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI400 accelerators (techspot.com)

2025-11-07 | get Nanobook → | tags: accelerators, accelerators upcoming, ai infrastructure

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Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Tobias Mann | get travel guide book → | tags: accelerators, ai, chips