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Amazon and Synopsys ink multi-year billion-dollar deal in multi-year IP agreement to accelerate AI chip design efforts
Amazon and chip design tool maker Synopsys have inked a multi-year partnership worth over a billion dollars. As part of the arrangement, Amazon will license Synopsys' chip designs and its design tools to create and optimize new AI chips.
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security.
Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy RTX 5090 gaming GPU
The form requires RTX 5090 buyers to input their personal data before getting approved to make the purchase. However, it remains unclear how Micro Center can use this information to track illegally exported GPUs.
Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah.
Former EVGA employee recounts company’s degrading relationship with Nvidia before 2022 blow-up
In a personal blog, former EVGA product manager Brendon Ray Hedrick shared how the first Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs alarmed the company and how pricing pressure and risky forward-looking tech ultimately led to the end of the two companies' storied partnership.
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
Nvidia may be on the verge of recovering ground in China, as Beijing considers allowing the country's largest AI companies to import banned chips while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang deepens his influence over President Trump's technology policy.
Modders bring Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to AMD Radeon GPUs
An unofficial project is bringing Nvidia’s DLSS 5 to AMD Radeon GPUs, with early testing showing performance climbing from around 30 FPS to 50 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 after rapid optimization.
Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
Microsoft has not responded to a proposal from an Indiana community coalition that asks the company to commit a share of its data center costs to local needs, according to We Make Indiana.
Thieves steal Nvidia-labeled trailers expecting massive AI GPU payday, but score 40,000 pounds of sand instead
The two PlusAI trailers with Nvidia-partner markings were apparently left outside the startup's warehouse, making it a juicy target for criminals looking to make easy money on AI GPUs.
The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.
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