ai inference

Google’s TPU story is no longer a niche engineering footnote; it has become a strategic lever that could reshape the economics of cloud AI and redraw the boundaries of the AI cloud race. What began as an internal solution to a capacity problem — a chip designed in 2015 to keep voice search from...

Microsoft's newest pivot in AI hardware strategy stretches the company's long-standing partnership with OpenAI into the silicon layer: Satya Nadella confirmed that Microsoft will be able to use OpenAI’s custom chip designs alongside its own internal efforts, a development that reshapes Azure's...

Microsoft appears to be quietly assembling software to let AI models built for NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem run on AMD’s ROCm-powered accelerators — a development first reported this week and already rippling through the cloud, chip and AI communities. If true, the effort would be a direct, strategic...

Microsoft Azure’s new NDv6 GB300 VM series has brought the industry’s first production-scale cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems online for OpenAI, stitching together more than 4,600 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand to create a single, supercomputer‑scale...

Oracle's blockbuster first-quarter numbers and multibillion-dollar AI deals have rewritten the narrative: a company long pigeonholed as a database vendor is now positioning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud purpose-built for large-scale AI training and inference — with management...

The latest round of open-source AMD driver work and kernel/toolchain updates are materially improving Llama.cpp AI inference performance on Linux — in some cases outpacing equivalent Windows 11 setups — thanks to targeted RADV/Mesa optimizations, newer Linux kernels, and the way Vulkan-based...

Built for speed and ready to scale, the push toward Windows 11 Pro devices—especially Copilot+ systems and Intel vPro® machines powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra—is no longer marketing fluff: it’s the practical backbone of a modern, hybrid SMB strategy that combines measurable performance gains, new...

Lenovo’s IFA keynote and hands-on demos in Berlin crystallized a simple, audacious claim: within four to five years every personal computer will be an “AI PC” — a device with a built‑in Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and the on‑device intelligence to run many AI tasks locally. That declaration...

Microsoft Research’s Cambridge lab has revealed the second-generation Analog Optical Computer (AOC), a hybrid photonic–analog prototype that uses light, commodity optics and analog electronics to accelerate both AI inference and combinatorial optimization — promising orders-of-magnitude gains in...

If GEEKOM delivers on what it’s teasing, the A9 Mega could be the first Windows 11 mini PC that genuinely threatens the Mac Studio’s blend of sleek design and uncompromising performance—at a far lower entry price and with stronger gaming credentials. Overview GEEKOM is preparing a compact...

Microsoft’s Azure platform has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud‑Native Application Platforms, a recognition Microsoft highlights as validation of its developer‑focused platform strategy and AI‑centric roadmap. The company says it was placed furthest to the right...

Aaeon’s new UP Xtreme ARL arrives as a decisive answer to the question many hobbyists and embedded developers have been asking: what if a Raspberry Pi–sized board used a modern Intel Core Ultra CPU, offered up to 64 GB of LPDDR5, and shipped with first-party Windows 11 support out of the box...

Intel and Microsoft’s move to fold a dedicated Vision Processing Unit into Windows’ on-device ML story is not a product tweak — it is an architectural shift that changes where and how many Windows AI experiences will run, who will pay the power bill, and how developers will ship intelligent apps...

I pulled a boxed Windows 11 tiny PC out of its packaging, installed Ubuntu Budgie, and in less than an afternoon turned a handsome, pocket-sized Geekom IT15 into a fast, dependable Linux workstation — a change that proved more than cosmetic: it materially improved daily responsiveness, fixed...

Microsoft's approaching end-of-support for Windows 10 has sharpened a question many users have been postponing for years: beyond security and features, does moving to Windows 11 deliver a measurable, real-world performance win — or could the upgrade cost you frames, responsiveness, or workflow...

Apple, long known for its razor-sharp focus on hardware and consumer software, has been quietly entertaining a bold idea that could fundamentally alter the cloud computing landscape: building an AWS competitor based on its own custom silicon. Recent reports, most notably from The Information as...

The June deployment of KB5063134 marks a pivotal moment in Microsoft’s evolving approach to artificial intelligence on Windows, specifically targeting Intel-powered devices with the Phi Silica AI component update (version 1.2506.707.0). As the integration of hardware-based AI accelerators...

The world of artificial intelligence infrastructure is entering a new era, as specialist chipmaker Groq outlines its ambitions to directly challenge the cloud titans Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Groq’s latest maneuver—a transformative partnership with Hugging...

Oracle’s latest strategic gambit—integrating AMD’s Instinct MI355X GPUs into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—has sent ripples through the hyper-competitive world of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). This move is more than a product upgrade; it’s a calculated effort to position...

When Microsoft quietly released KB5061856—a Phi Silica AI component update (version 1.2505.838.0) designed specifically for Qualcomm-powered systems—the Windows ecosystem took a significant if understated step toward realizing on-device AI at scale. While this update may appear, at first glance...