Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI data center customer...
Intel announces top executive changes, including the departure of Intel Products CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus, and establishes a new central engineering group
company also establishes new custom chip design unit Prasanth Aby Thomas / Computerworld : Intel announces leadership overhaul, underscoring long road to recovery Jacob Fox / PC Gamer : Intel reshuffl...
DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19
Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 Tobias Mann / The Register : DeepSeek's new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Hugging Face : DeepSeek-V3.1 ...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report) Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Synopsys Halts China Sales After US Cracks Down On Chip Design Exports insideHPC : White House Imposing Export...
AMD unveils Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, and an RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July 2025
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Intel defeats a shareholder lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently concealing problems in its foundry unit, leading to job cuts and a $32B stock plunge
complaints stemmed from single-day $32B devaluation in 2024 AleksandarK / TechPowerUp : Intel Confirms Long-Term TSMC Partnership, About 30% of Wafers Outsourced to TSMC Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Judge...
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V
including @Microsoft, @Dell, @Lenovo and @HP—are joining their new advisory group to “shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.” https://www.crn.com/... @CRN Mark Russinovich / @markrus...
AMD debuts its 5th Gen Epyc data center chips, codenamed Turin, with up to 192 cores, clock speeds up to 5GHz, and double-digit gains in instructions per clock
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Mistral announces Mistral Large 2, the new generation of its flagship model, with 123B parameters; commercial usage requires a separate license
Today, we are announcing Mistral Large 2, the new generation of our flagship model. Tobias Mann / The Register : Mistral Large 2 leaps out as a leaner, meaner rival to GPT-4-class AI models MD Ijaj Kh...