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Semiconductors, foundries, advanced packaging and the global silicon supply chain, covered by The Silicon Ledger.
A significant markdown on Corsair's 32GB DDR5 memory module provides relief amid sustained price pressures driven by data center demand and AI infrastructure buildouts.
As agentic AI systems drive demand for general-purpose computing, Dell is positioning its latest PowerEdge servers as a way for data centers to consolidate aging hardware and free up space and power for new AI infrastructure.
The memory chipmaker is embedding specialized processing units in its storage controllers to reduce power consumption and handle faster data transfer rates without relying solely on traditional CPU cores.
Following a major supply chain attack that resulted in $93 million in stolen cryptocurrency, the hardware wallet maker is scrutinizing its sales channels and anti-tampering measures.
A Reddit user has documented significant price premiums on Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics cards in Japan, with some models commanding markups of up to 41% over U.S. pricing.
Intel has formally introduced its Crescent Island chip as the GPU D-Series, an AI inference accelerator delivering 1.3 PFLOPS of FP8 performance with 1.5 TB/s memory bandwidth, designed for traditional data center deployments rather than liquid-cooled rack-scale systems.
A specialized liquid-cooling coldplate with diamond-infused technology aims to manage extreme heat densities in next-generation AI accelerators, potentially cutting GPU temperatures by as much as 22 degrees Celsius.
A Russian buyer scored nine Nvidia P106-100 graphics cards from a garage for 3,000 rubles, then successfully ran a 35-billion-parameter language model on the repurposed hardware at a cost of roughly 65 cents per gigabyte of VRAM.
