Amazon is making waves with Trainium3, but already attention is moving to Trainium4 In sum – What we know: Amazon Web Services used its re:Invent 2025 conference to unveil a …
Christian de Looper
Christian de Looper
Christian de Looper covers AI semiconductors. He has previously written for leading consumer technology publications, reviewing everything from audio gear and mobile devices to smart home products. Over the years, he has reported on the rise of 5G, the innovations that powered it, and the evolution of the AI industry, from consumer applications to the infrastructure that makes them possible. Christian holds a (somewhat irrelevant) Bachelor of Science in Music Technology and lives in Santa Cruz with his wife, two kids, and cat.
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GPU-as-a-Service eliminates the need to own the hardware, but what are the trade-offs? The race to build and deploy AI has created an infrastructure bottleneck that’s reshaping how organizations think …
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In sum – what to know: Meta explores a major TPU shift – Talks with Google could see Meta rent TPUs in 2026, signaling a meaningful move to diversify beyond …
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In sum – what to know: Trainium3 marks a major generational jump – AWS’ new 3nm accelerator delivers over 4x gains in compute, and is designed to scale from 144-chip …
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Telcos are taking a focused, low-risk approach to AI by prioritizing deployments in OSS/BSS and enhancing data correlation through generative models, while maintaining a clear line of sight on ROI. …
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AI compute isn’t one thing. It’s two. Under the umbrella of “AI workloads,” training and inference represent distinct computational worlds with different goals, hardware profiles, and economics. They often get …
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It’s been a big week for AI infrastructure as a whole, but especially for semiconductors. Increasingly more companies are joining to race to power future AI data centers, while there’s …
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For decades, compute has scaled faster than memory. Processors can execute more operations every year, but the speed at which data moves in and out of memory has lagged behind. …
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The semiconductor industry is changing quickly, especially as it relates to AI. As AI workloads grow ever more demanding, old monolithic chips are giving way to new chiplet-based designs. But …
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Artificial intelligence has reshaped the semiconductor industry, driving an endless chase for better performance and efficiency. But as transistor scaling slows and Moore’s Law fades, the gains from smaller nodes …