AMD Wins Finland’s National AI Supercomputer
The Finnish agency running Europe’s most storied supercomputer has made its choice. LUMI-AI, the country’s national AI supercomputer, will run on AMD hardware, with deployment planned for the second half…
Strategy Resumes Buying, Adds 4,603 Bitcoin for $369.7 Million
The message went out on social media the day before: “We’re Back.” By Monday, Michael Saylor’s company had made it literal. Strategy, the software company turned bitcoin treasury, disclosed in…
IBM Quantum Computer Finishes a 15-Minute Task Classical Machines Can’t
The calculation took 15 minutes. On a classical computer, the same problem would take effectively forever, a task the researchers describe as practically impossible. The result, published on August 30…
Xbox Lets Players Trade Discs for Digital Licenses
The Disc-to-Digital program turns a decade of industry debate into a button press: a player inserts a game disc, and the console converts it into a digital license, permanently attached…
TSMC Bets Silicon Photonics Will Carry AI Chips Past Electrical Limits
The chips are getting faster. The wires between them are not. That is the problem TSMC expects silicon photonics to solve, and the company says the technology will start accelerating…
SpaceX Pays $220 Million to Take 444 Acres Out of Brownsville’s Hands
Around 11 p.m. on Saturday, the Brownsville City Council voted unanimously to cut 444 acres out of the city. The land, adjacent to SpaceX’s Starbase launch site on the Texas…
2027 Memory Capacity Is Already Sold Out, Suppliers Say
Two years is a lifetime in the memory business, long enough for a boom to become a bust and back again. Yet Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron have already sold…
HBM Spot Prices Hit Five Times Contract Levels as AI Demand Surges
In the memory market’s spot trade, where chips are bought for immediate delivery at whatever the market will bear, the price of HBM has gone vertical. Korea Economic Daily reported…
SK Hynix Weighs Japan Fab, Hands HBM Base Dies to Intel Foundry
For decades, the message from Korea’s memory makers was consistent: fabs stay home. On Monday, SK Group chairman Choi Tae-won broke that pattern, publicly confirming that SK Hynix is considering…
Nvidia Puts $3.5 Billion Into MediaTek Convertibles
The first batch of RTX Spark laptops sold out within days. ASUS and MSI units were snapped up in preorders, and both makers scrambled to place follow-on orders with their…

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