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Chips and processor hardware

• 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

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  Japanese researchers advance combinatorial problem solving

  Some tasks cannot be solved easily on classical computers. Quantum mechanics offers one approach, but an Ising machine tackles the problem differently

• April 25, 2025 25 Apr'25

  How AI workloads are reshaping datacentre design

  At Gitex Asia 2025, industry leaders discuss how the computational demands of advanced AI models are forcing a rethink of datacentre power, cooling and networking infrastructure

• April 16, 2025 16 Apr'25

  AI chip restrictions limit Nvidia H20 China exports

  The US government’s export controls have come into effect, limiting Nvidia’s ability to sell its H20 chip in China

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  Roadmap for commercial adoption of quantum computing gains clarity

  There has been plenty going on in the world of quantum computing, suggesting that commercial systems are on the horizon

• April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  Expect a tariff on semiconductors within two months, says US commerce secretary

  The Trump administration has separated out semiconductors in a bid to bring back manufacturing to the US

• April 14, 2025 14 Apr'25

  Government injects extra funding to drive quantum growth

  The UK government has ploughed an extra £121m into quantum to drive development of the technology

• April 11, 2025 11 Apr'25

  Warranty fraud fuels hidden army of hardware hackers

  Widespread warranty fraud is not only costing companies billions but also creating a breeding ground for advanced hardware exploits, warns hardware hacker and researcher Bunnie Huang at Black Hat Asia 2025

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  What is the impact of US tariffs on datacentre equipment costs?

  Moore’s Law predicts that every 18 months, IT buyers can get more for the same outlay. But US tariffs may mean they end up paying a higher price

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Tech sector still failing to rid supply chains of forced labour

  KnowTheChain’s latest benchmark analysis of the IT sector’s efforts to address forced labour in supply chains shows there has been very little improvement in their due diligence practices over the last half decade

• April 01, 2025 01 Apr'25

  Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging

  People may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  Research team demonstrates certified quantum randomness

  A 56-qubit trapped ion quantum computer from Quantinuum has demonstrated quantum supremacy as a random number generator

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  Peter Kyle sets stage for making tech work

  During his speech at the Tech Policy conference, Kyle announced a number of initiatives to support AI and other new technologies

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform

  India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation

• March 02, 2025 02 Mar'25

  AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts

  Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Nvidia CEO claims reasoning models will boost GPU demand

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 model resulted in a big drop in Nvidia’s share price, but CEO Jensen Huang believes this is just a blip

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Quantum innovation balances on commercial tightrope

  While there is plenty of innovation in quantum technology, the industry needs greater collaboration to develop commercially viable systems

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car

  Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Microsoft overcomes quantum barrier with new particle

  It has taken 20 years of development, but researchers now have a device that can scale to millions of qubits without errors rising exponentially

• February 19, 2025 19 Feb'25

  ARM and Meta: Plotting a path to dilute GPU capacity

  Meta wants to make artificial intelligence available to everyone who uses its platforms, but scaling AI to over one billion people is not going to be cheap

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins

  Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Microsoft’s results show cloud AI balancing act

  CEO acknowledges efficiency of DeepSeek and need to assess model optimisation rather than just buying more AI servers

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Interview: Volvo’s engineering lead discusses tech stacks

  Volvo Cars’ approach to manufacturing is becoming more software-defined, built on top of what it calls ‘a superset tech stack’

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  Hyperscalers to spend a trillion dollars on AI optimised hardware

  The market for AI optimised servers is growing, driven by hyperscalers and IT services firms developing AI-enabled services

• January 19, 2025 19 Jan'25

  ST Logistics teams up with Lenovo on smart warehouses

  The Singapore logistics firm is partnering with Lenovo to integrate AI and automation into its warehouse operations

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Global IT spending to soar in 2025

  S&P Global Ratings expects a 9% surge in global IT spending for 2025, fuelled by demand for AI and cloud technologies, despite potential trade headwinds and a slowing global economy

• January 13, 2025 13 Jan'25

  UK government unveils AI-fuelled industrial strategy

  Labour plans to implement the 50 recommendations set out by entrepreneur Matt Clifford to boost the use of AI in the UK

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  PC makers use CES to showcase AI PC efforts

  A range of AMD, Intel and ARM-powered PCs with neural processing units are aiming to boost office productivity

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Custom software and silicon set to define next-gen chips

  The global chip supply crisis is not improving, but manufacturers are integrating new software and hardware techniques to stay ahead

• January 06, 2025 06 Jan'25

  Government develops quantum tech for military

  A high-tech atomic clock has been developed by a ‘secret lab’ and aims to decrease the reliance on GPS technology

• January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  Government boosts Horizon R&D campaign

  As part of its Plan for Change, Labour is ramping up efforts to get more UK businesses to apply for Horizon funding

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Google demos next-gen error correction with Willow quantum tech

  Willow represents Google’s latest development in its goal to produce quantum computing that can scale beyond error limits

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  Nvidia investigation signals widening of US and China chip war

  The Biden administration has expanded sanctions to prevent China extending its AI capabilities – now, China is going after Nvidia

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Intel confirms CEO Pat Gelsinger has left the company

  Several months after Gelsinger went public with plans for mass lay-offs at Intel, he has departed the company and left the board

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Dutch chip strategy balances talent and infrastructure in €2.5bn investment

  Project Beethoven aims to create complete semiconductor ecosystem through coordinated education and infrastructure investment

• December 01, 2024 01 Dec'24

  How SkyLab is democratising hybrid cloud management

  SkyLab is challenging the cloud status quo with its orchestration platform, which allows telcos and enterprises to seamlessly manage workloads across multiple cloud providers

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Nvidia CEO talks up AI post-training, test learning and gigawatts

  The company’s datacentre business continues to skyrocket as demand for artificial intelligence accelerates

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months

  If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, the pace is three times quicker with AI developments, says Satya Nadella

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  AMD pushes GPU advantage with HPC top spot

  AMD’s El Capitan is the world’s fastest supercomputer and is being used in nuclear weapons safety

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Closing in on quantum computing with error mitigation

  Current quantum computers are prone to error. IBM’s latest Heron machine uses software and hardware to get better results

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning

  The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  How quantum computing could reshape financial services

  Experts at the Singapore FinTech Festival predict quantum computing will improve risk management, investment strategies and fraud detection in the financial sector, while also posing new challenges for data security