PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening

Asia In Brief  Infosys has lost a ten-year, $1.5 billion deal it announced just three months ago in September 2023.…

Turing Award winner whose research and startups broke ground for five decades, tells The Reg he has more up his sleeve

Interview  What if we built the operating system on top of the database instead of the other way around? It sounds like an idea from an undergraduate student after one microdose too many, except it's not. It's a serious idea from someone who has already upended the computing industry and whose influence has spread into familiar products from Microsoft and Oracle.…

From the cutting edge of physics research to a valuable monitoring tool

Space Extenders II  SOHO, a joint ESA and NASA mission, is still going strong after almost thirty years since launch and at this point the craft is an essential part of space infrastructure.…

Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid

Analysis  As Moore's Law slowed to a crawl, chips, particularly those used in AI and high-performance computing (HPC), have steadily gotten hotter. In 2023 we saw accelerators enter the kilowatt range with the arrival of Nvidia's GH200 Superchips.…