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AMD chair, president, and CEO Lisa Su celebrated her 10th anniversary in the top job with major new product announcements during the company's Advancing AI event in San Francisco. The company wants to be the leader in AI chip manufacturing, from the desktop through to the data centre, and it's bringing the goods to the table.

Everybody is talking about the amazing things you can do with AI, but few are talking about the environmental and energy impacts it brings. In comes Pure Storage who has made this front of mind and says vendors like it must be helping businesses reduce energy consumption and boost sustainability.

Intel’s roadmap to achieving greenhouse gas emission reductions and climate goals

GUEST OPINION by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger:  We are in a new era of global expansion where computing power has become foundational to a bigger opportunity and better future for every person on the planet. It has the power to make industries more sustainable and to unlock new solutions in the fight against climate change.

Hybrid cloud and SD-WAN infrastructure operator Nexion has entered into an agreement to acquire New Zealand information technology companies Aiscorp and Silicon, tripling the company's net worth to $18.3 million.

In the midst of its Discover 2021 conference, HPE said it is “extending hybrid cloud leadership with the HPE GreenLake edge to cloud platform to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive on-premises offerings for scalable and secure cloud services that drive greater agility, simplicity and productivity at lower cost.”

Apple plans to make new contributions of more than $430 billion in the US and add 20,000 jobs across the country over the next five years.

UNSW and the University of Sydney say a collaboration between them has opened the way for quantum computers in silicon to be developed at scale.

Researchers at the Australian National University have collaborated with their counterparts at the California Institute of Technology to come up with a way of combining silicon with another material known as perovskite to more efficiently convert sunlight into electricity.

Silicon chips may soon be able to transmit and process information at extremely high speeds using light, with help from a University of Sydney invention - a new pulsed laser that allows light to be generated on a computer chip.