Hardware Industry Opinion: Are we nearing the peak of custom ASIC adoption? Have we reached the high-water mark of custom silicon? Not yet, but we can likely see it from here. By Jonathan Goldberg, May 5, 2025, 12:40 PM
Hardware AI OpenAI custom chip project aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance Unconfirmed collaboration with Broadcom is quietly bearing fruit By Alfonso Maruccia, February 11, 2025, 4:23 PM
AI Gaming Oasis is an interactive AI experience that turns Minecraft into a nightmarish hallucination The developer hopes that, over time, the model can help game makers create content faster By Alfonso Maruccia, November 5, 2024, 3:18 PM
Hardware Google The end of Moore's law forced YouTube to make its own video chip YouTube now controls its hardware roadmap By Shawn Knight, August 26, 2022, 11:15 AM 12 comments
Hardware Intel starts shipping its Bitcoin mining rig as cryptocurrencies crash Good job guys By Isaiah Mayersen, July 2, 2022, 11:21 AM 28 comments
Hardware Industry Intel launches second-gen Blockscale ASIC for Bitcoin mining The silicon giant says it won't affect CPU and GPU manufacturing By Adrian Potoroaca, April 5, 2022, 11:16 AM
Hardware Industry Intel unveils 3,600-watt ASIC Bitcoin mining rig The company's first mining rig is capable of up to 40 terahashes per second By Adrian Potoroaca, February 21, 2022, 12:44 PM 27 comments
Industry Bitmain places orders for 5nm mining chips with TSMC Could it impact production of other 5nm chips? By Rob Thubron, May 7, 2021, 6:55 AM 7 comments
Industry Intel acquires eASIC to diversify beyond CPUs New hybrid of FPGAs and ASICs to be built using shared intellectual property By Greg Synek, July 13, 2018, 8:40 AM
Industry Hardware Facebook is hiring a team to design its own custom microchips Mentions of AI, compression, and video encoding applications By Greg Synek, April 19, 2018, 10:46 AM
Industry Bitcoin mining rewards cut in half to curb inflation By Shawn Knight, July 11, 2016, 10:30 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Ex-NASA chief's neural computing startup reveals 256-core processor and voice recognition system By Rob Thubron, June 7, 2016, 10:00 AM
Hardware Google Google built its own processor to power machine learning By Shawn Knight, May 19, 2016, 7:30 AM