Market data from analyst IDC has shown that SuperMicro has leapfrogged established server makers Lenovo and HPE as the second-largest PC server maker behind Dell. SuperMicro experienced growth of almost 134% for the fourth quarter of 2025 with revenue of $11.7bn, which means it accounts for over 9% of the global server market. Dell was…
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Everpure has announced Evergreen One for AI, a performance-backed consumption model for artificial intelligence (AI) that extends to use of its FlashBlade//Exa high-performance storage. Meanwhile, the company – known as Pure Storage until recently – has announced the beta release of its Datastream automated AI pipeline appliance. Evergreen One for AI differs from existing flexible…
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AMD reveals its Ryzen AI 400 series at MWC 2026 as the successor to the Ryzen 8000G rangeThese chips have been refocused on AI, with an NPU that hits 50 TOPSIt means a desktop PC will qualify for Windows 11’s Copilot+ featuresOver at MWC 2026 AMD has revealed new Ryzen AI processors designed to bring…
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is installing a new supercomputer named Sunrise, which is specifically designed to support nuclear fusion research. Based on AMD Epyc and Instinct-powered Dell hardware, Sunrise achieves approximately 6 exaflops at at 8-bit precision. That means it is capable of running six quintillion floating point operations per second. While it is…
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NetApp has refreshed its E-Series line with two all-flash models – the EF50 and EF80 – aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) training, inferencing and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The launch comes with a claimed performance boost of 2.5x for these E-Series arrays. E-Series has long been the speedy option in NetApp’s portfolio for applications that…
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MSI’s general manager has called 2026 the “most challenging year since the company was founded”The RAM crisis is hitting the laptop maker hard, and it’s cutting back on production of low-end notebooks by 30% as a resultThere is brighter news elsewhere as DDR5 RAM prices are seemingly dropping in Europe – but not by that…
RAM price hikes are now worryingly hefty at retailersSome RAM kits are double or closer to triple the cost they were just a couple of months agoThis could have a knock-on effect on the Steam Machine, but rumor has it Sony has played it smart by building up RAM supply for its consoleThere’s a new…
Computer Weekly’s list of the most influential women in UK technology has been running since 2012, launched to promote a discussion surrounding the role of women in the technology sector during a time when the lack of diversity in tech was only beginning to be considered. When it was launched, the list only featured 25…
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With the Bristol Isambard-AI supercomputer now live, the UK government has unveiled a roadmap to delivering 420 Exaflops of compute power by 2030. The £1bn set aside in the spending review is being used to increase the UK’s compute infrastructure and drive forward artificial intelligence (AI) development. The government’s goal is to reduce the UK’s…
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2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…
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