Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain Micron is now mass producing 232-layer QLC NAND, claiming it's the first memory manufacturer to break the 200-layer mark in QLC chips ..read more

First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain UnitedHealth, parent company of ransomware-besieged Change Healthcare, says the total costs of tending to the February cyberattack for the first calendar quarter of 2024 currently stands at $872 million ..read more

Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived US private equity investor Blackstone has plans for a £10 billion ($12.45 billion) hyperscale datacenter in northern England on a site formerly owned by battery startup Britishvolt ..read more

$62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits Google's plan to pay $62 million to settle allegations that it tracked people even when their Location History setting was switched off may have to be renegotiated based on several objections ..read more

Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board The UK's health department has awarded global consultancy KPMG an £8.5 million ($10.5 million) contract to help implement the controversial Federated Data Platform (FDP) at a local level ..read more

Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Specialist cloud operators skilled at running hot and power-hungry GPUs and other AI infrastructure are emerging, and while some of these players like CoreWeave, Lambda, or Voltage Park — have built their clusters using tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, others are turning to AMD instead ..read more

If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot Analysis  Three years after CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel would create a foundry business that took on contract manufacturing gigs, Chipzilla has committed to more than $185 billion in spending across new and existing fab, packaging, and test sites ..read more

Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop – so it's seeking help from the commercial space sector ..read more

Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Broadcom has blinked, and made a couple of changes to support VMware customers who don't want to move to its new software bundle subscriptions ..read more

Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks Exclusive  Alibaba Cloud has detailed the telemetry tool it uses to look out for glitches in customers' virtual networks, and revealed it’s reduced the number of personnel dedicated to troubleshooting by 86 percent since developing the system ..read more