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Intel押注3D堆叠AI芯片 18A-PT+Foveros Direct 3D+EMIB-T全栈整合
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Critical Relay Attack Found in Attestation TLS Protocol: Both Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Affected
A critical architecture flaw in the attestation TLS protocol, enabling relay attacks, has been discovered affecting both Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP platforms. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it surpasses recent high-profile confidential computing vulnerabilities. No official patch is currently available.
AMD通知AIB合作伙伴上调GPU核心与GDDR捆绑套料出货价约10%
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Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
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TSMC Adds Winbond to WoW 3D Stacking Memory Supply, Breaking DRAM Oligopoly
Winbond joins TSMC's Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) 3D stacking advanced packaging supply chain, becoming a new DRAM wafer supplier alongside Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. This move reduces reliance on the three global DRAM giants and strengthens AI chip packaging supply resilience. Winbond provides DRAM wafers for vertical stacking with TSMC logic wafers, offering 8GB capacity and 256GB/s bandwidth via its CUBE solution.
Oracle Defense Ecosystem Cohort 3: Offline AI on Roving Edge Devices Goes Operational
Oracle announced the third cohort of its Defense Ecosystem at the Brussels summit, adding 10 companies. Concurrently, Whitespace's Saga AI system deployed on Oracle Roving Edge Devices during Royal Navy's Operation HIGHMAST, running classified AI workloads completely offline, proving sovereign edge AI is operational.
Huawei Unveils AI-Centric Network with Token Monetization, UCM Caching Breaks Long-Context Barriers
At MWC Shanghai 2026, Huawei unveiled an AI-native network architecture integrating service, network, and compute, shifting from traffic-centric to intelligence-centric operations. The Unified Cache Manager (UCM) extends KV cache to petabyte-scale external storage, achieving 372% token throughput gains on GLM-5.1 at 128K sequence lengths. Token monetization frameworks and agentic operations enable carriers to charge for AI inference capacity and personalize services.
Qualcomm Dragonfly: 250-core CPU, HBC memory, UALink interconnects target AI inference TCO
Qualcomm unveils full data center portfolio: Dragonfly C1000 250-core Oryon CPU (>5GHz, PCIe Gen7, CXL), HBC near-memory compute (133TB/s Gen1, 18x-54x effective BW), AI300 inference accelerator (UALink/ESUN scale-up), and 800G/1.6T connectivity. Multi-year Meta CPU deal. Commercial sampling 2027-2028. Targets inference TCO with tokens-per-watt leadership.
Cisco Live US & InfoComm 2026 : la collaboration entre dans l’ère agentique
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MediaTek Lands Exclusive Google TPU v9 Inference Upgrade Triggerfish with 2x SRAM
Google plans a TPU v9 inference upgrade, Triggerfish, exclusively fabbed by MediaTek. It features 2-3x on-chip SRAM, HBM4E DRAM, and a simulation die for local management. Production starts late 2027 with 1-2M units lifecycle, unit price ~30% higher than Humufish.
Micron-Anthropic Deal Locks AI Memory Demand, But Stock Price Already Priced In
Micron signed a long-term supply contract with Anthropic covering HBM, DRAM, and SSDs, with joint analysis of memory subsystems for AI workloads. Micron also participated in Anthropic's Series H. This aims to transform memory from a commodity to an AI infrastructure asset, but the stock has already run up, requiring proof of sustained scarcity premium.
Arm servers capture >45% data center revenue, x86 ecosystem under AI-driven assault
IDC reports Q1 2026 global server revenue hit a record $122.6B, with Arm-based servers capturing >45% share (x86 at 52%). Accelerated servers (GPU/ASIC/FPGA) generated >70% revenue. Nvidia's Grace CPU (NVL72) and hyperscaler custom Arm chips drive the shift; x86 still leads in unit volume but faces supply constraints.
ASML CEO Validates Musk's Terafab, Reshaping AI Chip Supply Chain
ASML's CEO publicly acknowledges tracking Elon Musk's planned terawatt-scale AI supercomputer Terafab, comparing it to Korean DRAM megaprojects. This signals that the sole EUV lithography supplier is allocating capacity, potentially transforming AI chip supply chain and vertical integration.
Micron-Anthropic Deal: Memory Co-Architecture Locks in AI Supply Chain
Micron and Anthropic sign a strategic agreement covering joint memory/storage architecture design, multi-year supply, Claude adoption, and investment. This ties frontier AI model demands directly to infrastructure design, aiming to optimize token economics and power efficiency, but essentially locks in supply and restructures the ecosystem.
Dell PowerEdge XE8812: Liquid-Cooled Density Trap with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4
Dell launches PowerEdge XE8812 with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4, delivering 144 GPUs per rack, 300kW+ power, and 100% direct liquid cooling. It offers a generational leap in memory and compute density for HPC and AI, but deeply locks users into Dell's PowerRack, iDRAC, and ORv3 ecosystem from chip to rack.
NVIDIA Rubin 100% Liquid Cooling at 45°C Slashes Cooling Energy 40%
NVIDIA Rubin generation achieves 100% liquid cooling with coolant up to 45°C, eliminating fans and cold aisles. The DSX reference design uses closed-loop dry coolers, reducing cooling energy ~40% and water consumption to near zero. Rack density triples, marking a fundamental shift in AI factory cooling.
Cisco Leverages NVIDIA Spectrum Silicon and Nexus One to Reshape AI Network Control Plane
Cisco launches N9100 switches with NVIDIA Spectrum-6/4 silicon, delivering 102.4T throughput. It also introduces Nexus One unified management plane spanning NX-OS and SONiC, and extends Hybrid Mesh Firewall to BlueField DPUs for AI workload security offload, aiming for a turnkey AI fabric control plane.
AMD MEXT Acquisition Turns NAND Flash into DRAM-Class Memory, Halving AI Inference Cost
AMD acquires MEXT, whose technology makes cheap NAND flash behave like expensive DRAM, doubling to quadrupling usable memory capacity while halving costs. This targets inference and agentic AI memory bottlenecks. AMD also signs a 30MW AI compute deployment deal with Rackspace, rolling out from 2026 to 2028.
Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications
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AMD Mustang Peak Threadripper: 144 cores, PCIe 6.0, TR6 socket – Power and memory challenges loom
AMD's Zen 6 Threadripper 'Mustang Peak' is confirmed with 2nm TSMC process, DDR5, PCIe 6.0, and a new TR6 socket. Using Powderhorn CCDs, it scales to 144 cores (288 threads) with clocks above 6 GHz. However, massive power draw and memory bandwidth demands (possibly requiring MRDIMM) raise platform cost concerns.