Tobias Mann
Systems Editor at The Register
Systems Editor @TheRegister / @SitPub — hiker, animal lover, photographer, blogger, and tech journo. I'm over on Mastodon now at @[email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Tobias Mann
Chipmakers waiting on billions of dollars of CHIPS Act funding should be prepared to return to the negotiating table, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested during a Senate hearing this week. The $53 billion funding bill, which sought to reinvigorate domestic semiconductor manufacturing, has been a point of contention for President Trump, who has previously called for the CHIPS Act to be scrapped and the cash used to settle the national debt.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Tobias Mann
Mounting losses and financial turmoil has Intel cutting the deadweight, an effort that won’t end with axing staff. Going forward, any product the x86 giant isn’t absolutely sure can manage a 50 percent gross margin isn’t getting off the drawing board, Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus said during Bank of America’s global technology conference this week.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Tobias Mann
GlobalFoundries plans to funnel another $3 billion into US semiconductor production, bringing its total investment to $16 billion, the New York-based foundry operator said on Wednesday. The additional funding will support the production of several emerging technologies, including silicon photonics, and comes as many tech firms look to American suppliers to minimize their exposure to US tariffs.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Tobias Mann
Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and co-packaged optics flavors. The launch comes as Broadcom looks to play a bigger role in AI networks — a space where Ethernet has historically trailed Nvidia's InfiniBand interconnect tech. That's starting to change.
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3 weeks ago |
theregister.com | Tobias Mann
CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue. Located in Ellendale, North Dakota, Applied Digital's datacenter was built specifically to support large-scale AI and high-performance compute workloads.
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