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World Backup Day 2025: All the news, updates and advice from our experts
Welcome to our live coverage of World Backup Day, which starts early on Sunday, the 30th (midnight GMT, but there is already 1300 in Auckland, New Zealand). We will update this live blog a few times today, with our real-time coverage of the day starting at 0830 UK time with…
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‘An engineering masterpiece’ — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won’t be cheap
Chinese company DapuStor builds high capacity ultra-fast enterprise SSDs Its 1-DWPD Roealsen6 R6101 7.68TB SSD seriously impressed in a new review An “engineering masterpiece,” the SSD delivered record read speeds DapuStor is a Chinese start-up specializing in the development and manufacturing of enterprise-grade SSDs – and although you’ve possibly never…
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Megawatt-class AI server racks may well become the norm before 2030 as Nvidia displays 600kW Kyber rack design
Rubin Ultra GPUs previewed at Nvidia GTC 2025 with Kyber rack mockups Each NVL576 rack may include 576 GPUs across four internal pods Projected power draw reaches 600kW with performance targets of 15 EFLOPS At Nvidia GTC 2025, the company gave a preview of what its future data center hardware…
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Analyst claims Softbank bought Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion to help OpenAI’s chip ambitions
SoftBank buying Ampere may signal shift from licensing to manufacturing Stargate project could benefit from Ampere’s experienced chip designers OpenAI lacks internal chip development team so that makes sense Arm’s Japanese owner, SoftBank, is set to acquire Ampere – Arm’s only independent server chip vendor – for $6.5 billion (approximately…
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And so it begins – Amazon Web Services is aggressively courting its own customers to use its Trainium tech rather than Nvidia’s GPUs
AWS urging customers to switch from Nvidia to its cheaper Trainium chip It says its hardware offers the same performance with a 25 percent cost saving Amazon’s pitch happened as Nvidia was showcasing its new hardware at GTC 2025 While Nvidia was hosting its annual GTC 2025 conference, showing off…
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The ‘AI economy is currently a closed loop’ – and that’s probably why OpenAI, not Microsoft, invested a whopping $12bn in CoreWeave
Microsoft pulled out of a $12bn deal with CoreWeave, citing delays OpenAI took over the contract, backed by Microsoft’s own investment funds AI sector remains a closed loop driven by a few dominant players CoreWeave is eyeing a huge (potentially $2.5 billion) IPO in the coming weeks, but it has…
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