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Premium Huawei’s in-house Ascend processors and their surrounding supplier network are being positioned as the foundation of a national effort to build an independent, fully domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
The web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outages
Premium First it was AWS. Then Azure went down – and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?
Microsoft unveils Azure Cobalt 200 CPU, in-house chip targets higher performance and deeper integration
Premium Microsoft has revealed its next major in-house server processor, the Azure Cobalt 200, a 132-core Arm-based CPU built on TSMC’s 3nm process.
Anthropic signs $30 billion deal with Amazon to deploy Claude on AWS
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The Kingston NV3 2230 is Kingston’s budget take on this form factor, offering decent all-around performance and power efficiency at a good price.
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