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PremiumThe web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outagesFirst 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?
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PremiumExplosive AI buildout brings into question water supply concernsExplosive data center construction projects under the new AI boom may threaten to damage local water sources and compete with citizens for access to clean drinking water.
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SemiconductorsAmerican startup Substrate promises 2nm-class chipmaking with particle accelerators, at a tenth of the cost of EUVIf it can build a fab to match its tool.
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Premium20 years of Noctua: How one brand became a leader in the PC cooling businessWe sit down with Noctua's Jakob Dellinger to go over the PC industry's iconic beige and brown brand's colorful 20-year history.
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PremiumMassive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies — New energy methods are being explored as power demands are set to skyrocketA perfect storm of massive data centre buildout and new innovations in energy could materially change what our supplies look like in the future.
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PremiumAI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decadeOnce-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years.
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PremiumHow Nvidia's deal with Intel has been decades in the making — years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected allianceYears of rivalry, roadmap drift, and packaging breakthroughs set the stage for one of the most unexpected alliances in the industry
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PremiumThe state of Intel: What the company's $5 billion deal with Nvidia could mean for the floundering chipmakerAn eye-watering and mind-boggling deal saw computer chips’ new king supplant what used to be the old name in town – but what does it all mean for Intel?
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PremiumIntel officially becomes a contract custom chip designer, Nvidia among lead customersOr at least makes steps in the right direction.
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