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Chips and processor hardware

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Nvidia prepares for exponential growth in AI inference

  The company, famous for its datacentre AI acceleration, is focused on delivering better performance per watt to fuel the AI boom

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

  US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

  Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

• November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

  Government showcases UK quantum computing pledge

  With £670m set aside, the government is keen to show how the funding is supporting quantum innovation

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Nscale founding director exits AI infrastructure provider in wake of $1.1bn investment round

  Much-hyped artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nscale has parted ways with one of its founding directors, Companies House documents confirm

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

  Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance

  The OpenAI partnership with AMD gives it the option to invest directly in the chipmaker

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  North Wales Police pilots hybrid quantum emergency response

  A hybrid quantum solver accessed through D-Wave’s cloud has been used to halve police incident response times in Wales

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cisco unveils software to accelerate quantum networks

  IT and networking giant claims first of its kind network-aware distributed quantum compiler capable of running quantum algorithms across multiple processors while handling error correction across a network

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth

  The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes

• September 21, 2025 21 Sep'25

  NUS supercomputer enters global Top500

  Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  Huawei unveils interconnects to address large-scale AI infrastructure bottlenecks

  IT and networking giant announces technology designed to set standard in compute power for AI-driven workloads

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  UK government signs US partnership to deliver Europe’s largest AI factory

  Some 120,000 GPUs are set to be deployed in the UK over the next 12 months, as the government says it’s laser-focused on attracting talent and startups

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Microsoft shows potential of analogue optical computing in AI

  Microsoft has worked with Barclays on a financial optimisation problem using consumer-grade electronics

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  Nvidia’s Jensen Huang lobbies Trump administration to sell Blackwell to China

  The AI acceleration technology provider is looking at the massive opportunity in selling high-end chips to China

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Intel filing shows risks of US government stake

  The US government now has a significant stake in Intel’s business. This could effect its ability to obtain grants from other governments

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Qualcomm claims enterprise mobile processor world first

  New chip combines integrated RFID with AI and advanced connectivity, enabling edge devices across retail, commercial and industrial sectors to connect, compute and interact in smarter, proximity-aware ways

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption

  Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant

  Analysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche

  India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  What’s going on inside Intel?

  Chipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

  The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Why Intel’s woes show the fragility of the European Chips Act

  Intel is facing political pressure and stress across its business, with its 2022 plans to manufacture in the EU one of the casualties

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore

  The chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres

  Global semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance

  US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity

  Isambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  LG adds extra gear to automotive content platform for Kia

  Electronics giant’s Automotive Content Platform to power in-car streaming for European models of all-electric SUV, marking an expansion of in-car experience to key region following successful deployments in Korea

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties

  The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing

• July 07, 2025 07 Jul'25

  Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern

  We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits

  Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

  We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations

  Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands

  Innovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads

• June 18, 2025 18 Jun'25

  Execs shy away from open models and open source AI

  The Capgemini Research Institute has found that business executives prefer the support and security associated with commercial products

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

  The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  France is committed to AI, says president Macron

  The French president wants homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and thinks plans to create a European cloud platform dedicated to AI will be a ‘game changer’

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri

  Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing

  Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Noisy quantum hardware could crack RSA-2048 in seven days

  Research highlights the need for quantum safe cryptography given the speed with which quantum computing is evolving

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions

  Nvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI

  At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it

• May 22, 2025 22 May'25

  Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands

  As organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Ireland sets out chip plan

  Ireland has a long history of attracting high-tech firms. Building on the EU Chip Act, it now aims to be a leader in semiconductors

• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning

  Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows

• May 15, 2025 15 May'25

  How close is quantum computing to commercial reality?

  At a recent event, experts explored the progress towards logical qubits and how these will be applied to empower business IT

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  DSIT aims to bolster expertise with year-long secondments

  To drive forward its Plan for Change, the Labour government is looking to hire 25 experts for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Fellowship programme

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  Government funds training to build UK chip skills

  The UK semiconductor sector needs talent but a report highlights challenges