Data centres blamed for pushing household electricity costs skyward

State governments across the US are starting to feel the heat from consumers who are being asked to foot the power bills of Big Tech data centres.

AI era shifts priorities at the code-sharing giant

GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke has told staff he is fleeing the Volehill to chase entrepreneurial ambitions, leaving the Open Saucy outfit completely merged with Microsoft.

Former CEO Craig Barrett urges customers to bankroll Intel’s survival

Former Chipzilla chief Craig Barrett [pictured] has warned that Intel needs a $40 billion cash injection to stay at the sharp end of chip manufacturing and he is not expecting Washington to stump up the money.

In the darkness bind them

AMD is getting chummy with Microsoft again and is cooking up a custom chip that will run the next-gen Xbox console, and PCs and handhelds. 

Claims Vole is more of a start up than Google

Mustafa Suleyman [pictured] is luring top engineers from Google’s DeepMind into Microsoft’s AI division by claiming that Vole has much more of a start-up mentality these days.

Santa Clara outfit fails to impress investors with sluggish data centre gains

AMD fluffed its lines again in the AI chip race, posting second-quarter data centre revenue that barely moved the needle despite the market frenzy around artificial intelligence.

Amazon boss blames chips and power for lagging GenAI performance

Amazon supremo Andy Jassy does not appear to be sweating over whether his outfit can keep pace with Microsoft and other AI-obsessed cloud vendors.

Redmond rides GenAI gold rush

Software King of the world, Microsoft's share price briefly cracked the $4 trillion mark on Thursday, making it only the second outfit in history to do so, before it promptly slid back to $3.96 trillion.

Microsoft accused of kicking rivals out of Windows with dodgy tactics

Browser minnow Opera has lodged an antitrust complaint in Brazil claiming Microsoft’s Edge is being unfairly shoved down users' throats.

Cloudflare, Groq and Positron chase greener inference alternatives

Chip boffins are scrambling to cut the soaring energy costs of artificial intelligence, with a new generation of startups targeting Nvidia’s grip on the market by building faster, leaner, and more efficient inference silicon.