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Meta is expanding its AI capabilities so quickly it's housing data centers in tents, which would make them data tenters, no?

My editors are going to hate this headline.

PC Gamer

Elon Musk's Tesla Once Built Cars In A Tent To Meet Production Goals: Now, Mark Zuckerberg Is Channeling His Nemesis As Meta Builds AI Data Centers In Tents

Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg is investing heavily in AI as the company plans to build data centers that would use over 1 Gigawatt of power each.

Benzinga

CHIPS Act beneficiaries 'mired in NIMBY fights and two-year permits' — delays to Micron, Amkor, and SK hynix NY fabs costing $5M per day

Several major U.S. semiconductor projects — including Amkor’s packaging plant in Arizona, Micron’s $100B DRAM fab in New York, and SK hynix’s HBM site in Indiana — are facing delays or opposition due to environmental reviews and local protests.

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AMD to split flagship AI GPUs into specialized lineups for AI and HPC, add UALink — Instinct MI400-series models takes a different path

AMD will split its Instinct MI400-series into separate AI-focused (MI450X) and HPC-focused (MI430X) GPUs in H2 2026 to maximize performance per workload, but limited availability of UALink switches may hinder scalability.

Tom’s Hardware

Limited scalability of AMD's Instinct MI325X limits scale of its sales, says analyst firm

AMD’s Instinct MI325X failed to gain traction due to poor scalability, high power consumption, and delayed shipments, while its successor, MI355X, faces an uphill battle against Nvidia's more advanced and rack-scale-capable Blackwell GPUs.

Tom’s Hardware

No Nvidia? No problem - Huawei debuts AI system that's apparently faster than the market leader, the GB200 NVL72

Huawei debuts an AI system in China that's significantly faster than Nvidia’s market leader, the GB200 NVL72.

TechRadar

Intel has championed High-NA EUV chipmaking tools, but costs and other limitations could delay industry-wide adoption: Report

Intel has taken an early lead in High-NA EUV lithography, but widespread adoption remains constrained by high tool costs, limited exposure field size, and potential need for substantial ecosystem upgrades.

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DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts

SemiAnalysis says that DeepSeek and its venture capitalist partner spent some $1.6 billion dollar on AI hardware from Nvidia, says SemiAnalysis.

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia's next-gen B300 GPUs have 1,400W TDP, deliver 50% more AI horsepower: Report

With 288 GB of HBM3E memory and 50% more FLOPS than B200, Nvidia's B300 is a major performance upgrade.

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia's Blackwell AI GPU overheating issues are seemingly overhyped — semiconductor analysts reveal cooling issues have been mostly addressed

Analysis report that Nvidia's Blackwell overheating problems are over-exaggerated. Overheating issues have been purportedly largely addressed already.

Tom’s Hardware

AMD finally beats Intel in server revenue, but surprise surprise, Nvidia's still miles ahead

Can Intel bring it back?

PC Gamer

AMD breaks Intel's long-running reign in the data center landscape with $3.549 billion in revenue — but NVIDIA continues to top the charts with AI chips

AMD has toppled Intel's long reign as the top chip brand for datacenter processors. Most corporations heavily relied on Intel's Xeon CPUs to power their servers for the longest time with AMD stacking miles behind.

Windows Central

Despite US sanctions, China has enough AI processors to build the world's largest AI training cluster: Report

Despite export restrictions, enough AI processors have been smuggled into China to build world-class AI supercomputers. Workarounds including proxies and imports via other countries haven't stopped China from procuring large quantities of modern equipment.

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia partners indirectly confirm Blackwell B200 GPU delay — offer interested parties liquid-cooled H200 instead

Supermicro says Blackwell got 'pushed out a little bit,' but demand for AI servers is so high that it will not have any meaningful impact on its financial performance.

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Microsoft, Meta and more might have to wait for their shiny new AI hardware as Nvidia's Blackwell server GPUs are reportedly delayed

Sources say the first half of 2025 is more likely.

Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia to make $12 billion selling AI GPUs to China — firm to sell over one million sanctions-compliant HGX H20 in 2024

According to experts, Nvidia's HGX H20 and other processors outperform Huawei's Ascend 910 series and can be shipped without a license to China.

The Guardian - UK

AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentres

AnandTech

Rapidus Adds Chip Packaging Services to Plans for $32 Billion 2nm Fab

To say that the global foundry market is booming right now would be an understatement. Demand for leading-edge process technologies driven by AI and HPC applications is unprecedented, and with Intel joining the contract chipmaking game, this market segment is once again becoming rather competitive as well. Yet, this is…

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ASML to Ship Multiple High-NA Tools in 2025, Expands Production Capacities

ASML began to ship its first High-NA lithography tool to Intel late last year ,and the machine will be fully assembled in Oregon in the coming months. Shipping only a single extreme ultraviolet (EUV) system with a 0.55 numerical aperture lens may not seem like too impressive, but the company…

Tom’s Hardware

AMD's EPYC 'Bergamo' and Zen 4c Detailed: Same as Zen 4, But Denser

AMD's Zen 4c retains the same logic design as Zen 4c, but it is implemented differently, allowing for higher core count.

Tom’s Guide

Microsoft readies own AI chip — everything you need to know

Microsoft is reportedly working on Project Athena, an in-house AI chip designed to power the supercomputers needed to power generative AI like ChatGPT.

Tribune News Service

‘No possibility of reconciliation’ as US slams China chips

The Biden administration’s new restrictions on technology exports to China could undercut the country’s ability to develop wide swaths of its economy, from semiconductors and supercomputers to surveillance systems and advanced weapons.

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