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Today β€” 26 January 2026Main stream

Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued

26 January 2026 at 09:00

Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI

Boffins at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to develop cheap and power efficient LEDs to replace lasers. One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.…

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Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons

22 January 2026 at 20:41

CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2

If you notice PC prices creeping up over the next few months, the rising cost of memory won’t be the only reason, because on Thursday Intel said it is reallocating foundry capacity from client chips to meet surging demand for Xeon processors used in AI servers.…

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

21 January 2026 at 15:53

Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it

President Trump's decision to green-light the sale of Nvidia H200 GPUs to China isn't sitting well with some of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives. These GOP politicians have proposed a bill that would give Congress final say over the export of AI chips to China and other countries of concern.…

Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

18 January 2026 at 07:21

AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.

Double precision floating point computation (aka FP64) is what keeps modern aircraft in the sky, rockets going up, vaccines effective, and, yes, nuclear weapons operational. But rather than building dedicated chips that process this essential data type in hardware, Nvidia is leaning on emulation to increase performance for HPC and scientific computing applications, an area where AMD has had the lead in recent generations.…

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble

13 January 2026 at 14:22

Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers

Memory makers just can't churn out their DRAM fast enough. On the heels of an AI-driven shortage, SK Hynix on Tuesday announced a new 19 trillion Korean won (about $13 billion) advanced packaging and test facility in South Korea that could offer some relief - just not for consumer products like laptops and phones.…

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