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Tape capacity shipments up 57% in Q1: why AI archives are reviving the cold tier
The LTO Program's latest media report puts total shipped tape capacity in Q1 2026 up 57 percent year on year,...
VMware revives vSphere Standard as Proxmox goes 24/7: the low-end virtualisation squeeze eases
On the same day, VMware told The Register an updated vSphere Standard is coming and Proxmox confirmed 24/7 enterprise support...
NVIDIA moves the memory controller into the HBM stack: what NVHBM signals for AI infrastructure buyers
NVIDIA has extended NVLink Fusion with NVHBM, moving its own memory controller into the HBM base die. Amazon's Annapurna Labs...
NVIDIA invests $3.5bn in MediaTek: custom AI silicon is becoming a supply chain, not a science project
NVIDIA has put $3.5bn into MediaTek convertible bonds and MediaTek is adopting NVLink Fusion as a design blueprint for custom...
Vera Rubin NVL72 claims 30x more work per watt: why efficiency is now the AI infrastructure metric that counts
NVIDIA has published measured data putting Vera Rubin NVL72 at up to 30x higher throughput per megawatt than GB300 NVL72...
Intel details Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids: 256 P-cores, 1.28 GB of cache and a 2027 platform decision
Intel used Hot Chips 2026 to detail Diamond Rapids, a 2027 Xeon platform with up to 256 performance cores, 1.28...
Memory is eating the server budget: NVIDIA's reported 15% AI server price rise and what to do about it
NVIDIA is reported to be warning its largest customers of AI server price rises above 15% in early 2027, driven...
MLPerf Storage v3.0: checkpointing becomes the benchmark, and the leaderboard turns over
MLCommons has published MLPerf Storage v3.0, adding checkpointing and inference workloads. The results are a useful reminder that AI storage...
