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US gov’t moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits withou

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Paul Revere Admin said: A proposed change to the EPA’s regulations would remove the requirement for states to seek public input on air pollution permits, particularly around AI data centers. U.S. gov’t moves to suppress …

Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected — US Court of Appeals halts the legal wrangling over IBM’s and Red Hat’s use

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Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom’s Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason. “,”collapsible”:{“enabled”:true,”maxHeight…

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth

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A PIMX_RD reads the weight data from the DRAM bank, feeding into the MAC trees alongside the data from the SRF. Once the calculation is done, the output vector from each operation is written into the Vector Register File…

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia touts benefits of its DSX MaxLPS site power management approach — tech allows for more compute from fixed data center power budgets

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For modern rack-scale systems like Nvidia’s NVL72s, that’s an entire rack and change that could safely be installed within the same power budget, and indeed, that’s just what the company’s example shows. And across those…

Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers

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The entire video is fascinating and information-dense, so we suggest you watch it to get the complete picture. Hartensveld started off with gallium nitride atop a sapphire wafer, that he proceeded to break into shards an…