Alibaba designed the XuanTie C950 central processor unit (CPU) for agentic AI purposes. While much of the attention has focused on GPUs, an area Nvidia dominates, CPUs are seen as key for AI ...

Your computer's central processing unit, or CPU, is the equivalent of a computer's brain. It helps to power your computer's behavior, telling everything connected to it what to do by making ...

Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics processing, and to ...

Nvidia revealed a $3,000 mini computer for AI developers this week. It's called Project Digits — for now — and is based around an Nvidia chip called GB10. Nvidia could target the $50 billion-per-year ...

Graphics processing units have become much more prominent in recent years because of their ability to perform the complex calculations on large data sets that underpin modern artificial intelligence ...

Nvidia Corp. kicked off its annual GTC 2026 developer conference in San Jose today by announcing a number of new chips and computing platforms aimed at data center operators. But though most of the ...

High-performance computing (HPC) has taken on many meanings over the years. The primary goal of HPC is to provide the needed computational power to run a data center – a utilitarian facility dedicated ...

Ever notice how there are a lot of acronyms for computer stuff? API, BIOS, CPU, DOS (not to be confused with DoS), DRAM, GPU, HDD, RAM, ROM, and a whole lot more... It can get downright overwhelming.