#Hardware
Curated coverage on «Hardware»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.
Data Centers Arrive in Rural America: The Story of a Shuttered Paper Mill in Maine
A 1.4 million-square-foot shuttered paper mill in Jay, Maine, is being converted into a data center, creating new jobs in a rural area.
Workforce shortage threatens the revival of the US chip industry
The US semiconductor industry faces a severe workforce shortage that could slow ambitious plans to restore domestic chip production.
Stratos data center sparks controversy: Utah approves project larger than Manhattan
The Stratos data center will require more electricity than the entire state of Utah currently uses and will pump water in an arid region, worsening the water crisis.
Shanghai Launches First Underwater Data Center Powered by Wind Energy
China Launches World's First Underwater Data Center Powered by Wind Energy
Britain invests billions in supercomputer for independence from the USA
SpaceX leases entire Colossus 1 data center: engineers unable to handle operations
Kioxia Surpasses Toyota to Become Japan's Most Valuable Company on AI Boom Wave
Kioxia Holdings, a memory chip manufacturer, has displaced Toyota from the top of the Japanese market — for the first time in history, a technology company has…
Infineon opens €5 billion factory in Dresden: first real success of European Chips Act
Infineon Technologies launches Smart Power Fab factory in Dresden on July 2 for €5 billion — the company's largest investment ever and the first tangible result of…
Not at any price: electricians refuse to build Big Tech data centers
NVIDIA CCCL Runtime: Modern C++ Abstractions for Safer CUDA Development
Europe's heat shuts down power plants as IBM challenges Moore's law
First Street Study: 80% of Data Centers Are Vulnerable to Floods, Wildfires and Hurricanes
NVIDIA Scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3, and the Hero Is the Harness, Not the Model
NVIDIA's AVO architecture posted a perfect score on the interactive ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The key takeaway: the model isn't what solves it. The harness is, the…
Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion
Nvidia is discussing an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, 50% higher than its last round. The AI search engine's annualized revenue tripled…