May 2024

IT Sustainability Think Tank: Calculating IT equipment capacity – the challenging path forward

6 minutes of reading / compliance, Database, Intel, machine learning, Tech / By

Datacentre energy consumption and operational efficiency are under intense scrutiny. Sensing a need to control datacentre growth, legislators and regulators have begun efforts to require operators to report facility-level information and key performance indicators and set minimum facility performance thresholds. Their ultimate goal is to require operators to report indicative performance and efficiency metrics, including…

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IBM boss discusses long-term VM migration opportunity

3 minutes of reading / AI, automation, containers, hybrid cloud, IBM, multicloud, open source, Tech / By

IBM’s latest quarterly earnings filing coincided with the company’s plans to spend $6.4bn acquiring HashiCorp. IBM reported revenue of $14.5bn, up 1% from the same quarter in 2023, with software revenue growing 5% to $5.9bn. Automation, with growth of 14%, was the biggest contributor to IBM’s software revenue; meanwhile, Red Hat grew 9%. IBM chairman…

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Nvidia 5000 series: rumors, possible specs, and everything we know

5 minutes of reading / AI, Intel, Tech / By

Rumors about the upcoming Nvidia 5000 series GPUs are beginning to circulate as the company wraps up its current-generation graphics card releases. The present Nvidia Lovelace RTX series has delivered mixed performance results; while its enthusiast and premium mid-range models have generally excelled, high prices have prevented its more expensive cards from reaching many gamers. This situation…

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TSMC Preps Cheaper 4nm N4C Process For 2025, Aiming For 8.5% Cost Reduction

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While the bulk of attention on TSMC is aimed at its leading-edge nodes, such as N3E and N2, loads of chips will continue to be made using more mature and proven process technologies for years to come. Which is why TSMC has continued to refine its existing nodes, including its current-generation 5nm-class offerings. To that…

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Some AMD Zen 2 CPUs finally get defenses against Zenbleed security flaw – and it’s about time

3 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, MSI, Tech / By

Some AMD Zen 2 chips have still not had an important security patch, but this appears to be finally happening, at least for those with MSI motherboards, who are now receiving a firmware update to patch against Zenbleed attacks.This is a BIOS update which comes with AMD’s AM4 AGESA 1.2.0.Ca that packs mitigations against Zenbleed.…

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Keeper to help Williams F1 keep up with cyber challenges

3 minutes of reading / augmented reality, branding, Cloud, Tech / By

Cloud-based zero-trust and zero-knowledge software specialist Keeper Security has joined storied Formula 1 team Williams Racing as an official partner ahead of the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday 5 May 2024. The firm’s branding will appear on this season’s Williams car, the FW46, on the front wing for the first weekend to officially launch the…

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TSMC’s System-on-Wafer Platform Goes 3D: CoW-SoW Stacks Up the Chips

2 minutes of reading / AI, HP, Tech, Technology, Tesla / By

TSMC has been offering its System-on-Wafer integration technology, InFO-SoW, since 2020. For now, only Cerebras and Tesla have developed wafer scale processor designs using it, as while they have fantastic performance and power efficiency, wafer-scale processors are extremely complex to develop and produce. But TSMC believes that not only will wafer-scale designs ramp up in…

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Intel issues new guidelines to motherboard partners for crashing i9s

3 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, Intel, Tech / By

Intel has issued new guidelines for its motherboard partners regarding the continued problems around crashing Intel Core i9 13th and 14th Gen processors. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the new guidelines issued by Intel have been enforced to combat the stability issues of its high-end chipsets. Crucially, the chipset manufacturer has doubled-down that it’s not blaming…

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TSMC Jumps Into Silicon Photonics, Lays Out Roadmap For 12.8 Tbps COUPE On-Package Interconnect

2 minutes of reading / HP, Tech, Technology / By

Optical connectivity – and especially silicon photonics – is expected to become a crucial technology to enable connectivity for next-generation datacenters, particularly those designed HPC applications. With ever-increasing bandwidth requirements needed to keep up with (and keep scaling out) system performance, copper signaling alone won’t be enough to keep up. To that end, several companies are developing…

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Nvidia asserts dominance over ‘basic AI PCs’ running NPUs with its GPU hardware

3 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, chatbot, Intel, iPhone, Tech / By

As the AI computing revolution hits its Apex, Nvidia has confidently stated that GPU technology is the way forward instead of dedicated NPUs in a new meeting. As reported by Videocardz, a new meeting held by Nvidia about the “Premium AI PC” has seen Team Green confidently back its GPU technology against the current crop of…

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