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  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/2142243/microsofts-cto-hopes-to-swap-most-amd-and-nvidia-gpus-for-in-house-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s CTO Hopes to Swap Most AMD and NVIDIA GPUs for In-House Chips Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is transitioning its AI workloads from traditional GPUs to its proprietary accelerators to enhance cost efficiency in its datacenters. This move exemplifies a trend towards customized hardware…

  • The Register: Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/microsoft_maia_dc/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips Feedly Summary: Pivot will hinge on success of next-gen Maia accelerator Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD. But moving forward, Redmond’s leaders want to shift the majority of…

  • Cloud Blog: GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-flex-start-vms-for-the-compute-engine-instance-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs Feedly Summary: Innovating with AI requires accelerators such as GPUs that can be hard to come by in times of extreme demand. To address this challenge, we offer Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS), a service that optimizes access to compute resources…

  • The Register: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/china_alibaba_ai_accelerator/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Feedly Summary: Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs. … AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-container-management-leader/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management Feedly Summary: We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of…

  • The Register: How AI chip upstart FuriosaAI won over LG with its power-sipping design

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/sk_furiosa_ai_lg/ Source: The Register Title: How AI chip upstart FuriosaAI won over LG with its power-sipping design Feedly Summary: Testing shows RNGD chips up to 2.25x higher performance per watt than…. five-year-old Nvidia silicon South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI scored a major customer win this week after LG’s AI Research division tapped…

  • The Register: Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/trump_ai_exports/ Source: The Register Title: Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports Feedly Summary: Ding dong, diffusion is dead Biden’s controversial AI Diffusion rules, which were set to restrict the sale of American GPUs and AI accelerators beginning this week, are officially dead.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…