Crescent Island 160GB LPDDR5X setup reflects a cost-aware engineering strategy Air-cooled deployment targets practical enterprise data center environments globally Xe3P architecture links Crescent Island’s design to Intel’s broader GPU ecosystem Intel has revealed its latest data center GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, designed primarily for AI inference workloads. This chip targets value-conscious enterprises that prioritize efficiency,…

Refresh 2025-10-20T08:53:31.875Z Your bank may also be hit (Image credit: Downdetector) While the problems with our Echo devices this morning are annoying, a more serious repercussion from the AWS outage for many will be that multiple banks have been hit. In the UK, Downdetector is showing large spikes on Lloyds, Halifasx Bank of Scotland and…

Oracle claims its Zettascale10 system can hit 16 zettaFLOPS peak The project uses around 800,000 Nvidia GPUs spread across data centers OpenAI’s Stargate cluster in Texas runs on Oracle’s new infrastructure Oracle has announced what it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud, the OCI Zettascale10. The company claims the system can deliver 16…

Virgin Media O2 trial of mmWave spectrum achieves record 4Gbps single-device speed High-frequency spectrum enhances mobile performance in dense urban and commercial locations Over 2,000 small cells support high-speed 5G coverage in crowded areas Virgin Media O2 has confirmed the acquisition of new millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum following Ofcom’s latest auction, marking a £13 million investment…

Picture this: I’m soaring 35,000 feet above the ground, flying through the clouds – and I’ve got the digital world at my fingertips as if I were on the ground. I’m streaming the latest Conan bit on YouTube on my iPad, jumping into a Fortnite match on my iPhone, listening to Spotify in the background,…