CPUs and Processors

Former Broadcom engineer gets eight months in prison for trade secrets theft

Peter Kisang Kim admitted to stealing Broadcom data related to its Trident family of network switching and cloud networking chipsets, while working for a Chinese startup.

STMicroelectronics and Global Foundries to build new chip plant in France

The new project will receive “significant financial support” from the French government, as president Macron seeks to increase foreign investments in the country.

Hot chip startup Ampere files for IPO

The data-center chipmaker could be riding a wave of interest in its latest processors all the way to a public offering.

Intel suspends all operations in Russia

The chipmaker becomes the latest technology company to halt business in Russia as a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine

Microsoft launches Azure VMs powered by new Ampere Altra Arm-based chips

Who’s developing quantum computers?

What Qualcomm’s rumored exit from data centers means

Anonymous sources say Qualcomm is looking to shut down or sell its Centriq line of ARM-based data center processors, causing people to speculate about the company's plans.

GPUs: Designed for gaming now crucial to HPC and AI

How did a chip meant for gaming become so vital in enterprise computing? Some people thought outside the box.

Intel FPGAs step toward mainstream in Dell, Fujitsu enterprise servers

Acceleration cards target financial, data analysis workloads

FPGA maker Xilinx aims range of software-programmable chips at data centers

The new chips, code-named Everest, will be made with a 7nm manufacturing process, sport as many as 50 billion transistors and target AI, communications and complex data analysis workloads in the data center