As the workforce challenge intensifies, hear directly from contractors about what it's really like.

Just like Google, Facebook expands its silicon ambitions

For cloud and Edge

On the cover: High altitude Internet after the fall of Loon

Twice as powerful as the last TPU

The world's largest chip just got faster

A small system for a small country

As Microsoft expands industry-specific cloud divisions

Alongside $900 billion in Covid relief, the sprawling US Consolidated Appropriations Act demands a new study into data center energy use, a training program, and an open data initiative

Releasing a huge data set to kickstart catalyst research

Built out of Nvidia DGX SuperPODs

Four Mk2s make the company's signature IPU

But don't expect the government to actually build its own cloud

The Endless Frontiers Act is aimed squarely at competing with China

Betting big on Intel's Optane Persistent Memory

OPS-5G hopes to bring American-friendly security to 5G

And NNP-I will soon follow

AI Ops for data center efficiency

"It is expected that HyDDENN will have significant impact in the areas of Edge/IoT communications and contextual Edge sensing and classification"

'Bipartisan support' for effort to compete with China

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Companies blacklisted from US business amid ongoing trade war

World's most valuable startup, ByteDance, doesn't want to fall foul of potential data sovereignty laws

Artificial general intelligence is the goal, but before that expect some Azure enhancements