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Congratulations to Sagar Karandikar for winning the 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award, for “advancing the state-of-the-art in agile hardware/software co-design tools and deploying them at a hyperscaler to architect custom hardware that eliminates costly system-level WSC inefficiencies.”
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Professor Karandikar presents “Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems” at the 2025 Berkeley AI Workshop.

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December 2, 2025
Marvell Technology to Acquire Celestial AI in $3.25 Billion Deal

​October 9, 2025
How AMD’s AI Software Helped it Score the Multi-Billion Dollar OpenAI Deal

September 30, 2025
The Next Computing Revolution: Bringing Processing Inside Memory by Professor Onur Mutlu

August 9, 2025
How a Berkeley Professor Built Billion-Dollar Companies in his Lab 

August 7, 2025
Congress Wants to Cut the Smartest Investment Taxpayers ever Made by Professor David Patterson 

June 12, 2025
AMD Reveals Next-generation AI Chips with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

May 28, 2025
How a Harvard Engineer Lost Three Grants in One Day: A Harvard professor worries about brain drain and the impact on innovation

April 7, 2025
Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index Reveals Record Growth in AI Capabilities, Investment, and Regulation

March 14, 2025
Mobile World Congress 2025: AI’s Next Leap Requires More Than Data Centers

January 29, 2025
Alibaba Unveils Upgraded AI Model, Claims It Surpasses Rival DeepSeek-V3: The announcement follows a market frenzy triggered by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek

January 14, 2025
Alibaba, Apple and Synopsys Join Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium Board

December 17, 2024
Marvell Adds Custom HBM to Optimize AI Data Centers

November 29, 2024
Alibaba releases Qwen with Questions, an open reasoning model that beats o1-preview

November 12, 2024
Amazon Puts $110M Into Academic Generative AI Research 

November 6, 2024
AMD Launches New CPUs, GPUs And More Across Datacenter, AI And PC

​Sept 25, 2024
Chip giant Nvidia acquires OctoAI, a Seattle startup that helps companies run AI models

July 31, 2024
Marvell Delivers On CXL’s Promise Of Efficient, Scalable Data Centers

June 3, 2024
Computex 2024: The Battle for AI Copilot PCs Begins

May 23, 2024
NSF Funded Expedition Project Uses AI to Rethink Computer Operating Systems

May 23, 2024
Sustainable computing project awarded $12 million from NSF

April 24, 2024
US investigates China's access to RISC-V — open standard instruction set may become new site of US-China chip war

March 28, 2024
Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom

February 20, 2024
Google Announces Free AI Cyber Tools to Bolster Online Security

December 6, 2023
AMD Takes On Nvidia with New GPU for AI

​August 9, 2023
Baidu, Bytedance, Tencent and Alibaba Order $5B of Nvidia Chips to Power AI Ambitions
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June 20, 2023
AMD hopes to catch up on AI with Instinct MI300 AI supercomputing hybrid processor

May 26, 2023 
Marvell Follows Nvidia as the Next Hot AI Stock. The Sector Is on Fire.

​April 5, 2023
Alibaba and Huawei set to debut generative AI chatbots

February 13, 2023
Google's in-house Arm data center CPUs pass key milestone ahead of reported 2025 cloud launch - One is based on Marvell technology​

January 5, 2023
New Center Based at UIUC will Develop Distributed Computing Technology for 2030 and Beyond
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November 26, 2022
Re:Invent 2022 marks the next chapter in data and cloud

November 8, 2022
Exotanium raises $12M to optimize cloud efficiency while reducing costs by up to 90%

October 14, 2022
Big Tech Continues To Buy Semiconductors At Record Levels In 2022

September 16, 2022
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August 15, 2022
CXL Dominated The 2022 Flash Memory Summit 

July 18, 2022
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June 21, 2022
OPI Project Aims to Standardize DPUs and IPUs for Industry Adoption

May 19, 2022
Alibaba Opens AI-Focused Data Center in Germany

May 12, 2022
Western Digital SSDs, HDDs Tackle Cloud Challenges: Unstructured Data, Remote Work and Disaggregated Storage Create Diverse Demands

April 6, 2022
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​March 4, 2022
Marvell Targets Cloud Data Centers with Silicon Photonics Platform

February 3, 2022
Xilinx Works from the Edge with VERSAL FPGA Hybrids

January 20, 2022 
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January 5, 2022
The Year Ahead in Data Center Compute

November 15, 2021
News from Supercomputing 2021 (SC21): Xilinx Challenges Nvidia's Lock on HPC Market

November 1, 2021
Univ. of Washington Machine Learning Spinout OctoML Raises $85M to Expand its Partnerships

September 29, 2021
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August 25, 2021
News from Hot Chips 2021: Here Come the DPUs and IPUs from Arm/Marvell, Nvidia and Intel

July 14, 2021
Xilinx Wants to Flip the CPU-Accelerator Relationship
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June 28, 2021
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June 22, 2021
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April 21, 2021
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March 17, 2021
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January 25, 2021
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January 13, 2021
CES 2021: RISC-V’s Journey from Experimentation to Commercial Processors

December 7, 2020
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October 28, 2020
AMD Girds for Compute War with Xilinx Deal

September 13, 2020
It’s Official: NVIDIA To Acquire Arm For $40 Billion

August 25, 2020
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August 3, 2020
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July 13, 2020
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July 10, 2020
Nvidia Dethrones Intel as Top US Chipmaker

June 23, 2020
Arm Wrestles Intel, AMD for New Ground

June 16, 2020
Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss share ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award for their work on DNA-based digital data storage

June 5, 2020
There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?

April 17, 2020
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​March 5, 2020
Nokia Taps Intel, Marvell for 5G Chips; Samsung Expands Arm Investment

February 19, 2020
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January 24, 2020
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January 10, 2019
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January 4, 2020
Amazon Has Long Ruled the Cloud. Now It Must Fend Off Rivals. The tech giant is under attack as Microsoft and other rivals try to capture a bigger slice of the $266 billion cloud-computing market. 

December 30, 2019
Cisco's Big 'Silicon One' Bet 

December 30, 2019
Battle in AI Chips Heats Up as Nvidia Faces a Brigade of Rivals 

December 20, 2019
How Xilinx is Powering the Driverless Car Race 

December 10, 2019
​Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors