Tag: AI accelerators

The AI Memory Crunch Could Last Until 2030

SK hynix has delivered a warning that should concern anyone following the artificial intelligence industry: the world may struggle to manufacture enough memory chips to satisfy demand until 2030. The South Korean semiconductor giant made the forecast on October 28, alongside record third-quarter earnings. Its revenue reached 104.6 trillion won, while operating profit climbed to […]

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Your Next Gaming PC Is Competing With an AI Data Center

Your next gaming PC has a competitor you probably never expected: an artificial intelligence data center. Not another gamer hunting for a discounted graphics card. Not a cryptocurrency miner trying to turn electricity into Bitcoin. This time, the competition comes from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and an expanding collection of companies building enormous computing facilities […]

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AI’s Biggest Safety Warning Just Became a Semiconductor Story

The artificial intelligence industry spent years convincing investors that the biggest constraint on AI was compute. On Monday, it introduced a much stranger possibility: what if the companies building the most advanced systems decide that they need less speed? That question hit the semiconductor market hard. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 5.9% on September 14, […]

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Broadcom Is the Hidden AI Hardware Boss Behind AVGO

Everyone is watching NVIDIA’s GPUs and Micron’s high-bandwidth memory. Fair enough: those are the shiny weapons in the AI arms race. But inside the data center, raw compute is only half the fight. The harder problem is moving oceans of data between thousands of accelerators without turning the whole system into a very expensive traffic […]

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