While neuromorphic computing remains under research for the time being, efforts into the field have continued to grow over the years, as have the capabilities of the specialty chips that have been developed for this research. Following those lines, this morning Intel and Sandia National Laboratories are celebrating the deployment of the Hala Point neuromorphic…
Microsoft announced revenue of $61.9bn for the quarter which ended 31st March 2024, representing an increase of 17% over the same quarter last year. The company’s cloud business grew 23% and contributed $35.1bn in revenue. Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business grew 21%, with revenue of $26.7bn. This business unit comprises the server product line and cloud…
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We’re less than two weeks away from Google’s I/O 2024 event, where the company will unveil the Pixel 8a mid-range smartphone. All the leaks have told us that, and Google Pixel leaks are almost always right. After all, the annual I/O event has been the natural home of this type of Pixel device.Nobody would blame…
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week released its financial results for Q1 2024. Due to a rebound in demand for semiconductors, the company garned $18.87 billion in revenue for the quarter, which is up 12.9% year-over-year, but a decline of 3.8% quarter-over-quarter. The company says that in increase in demand for HPC processors (which includes…
TSMC Posts Q1’24 Results: 3nm Revenue Share Drops Steeply, but HPC Share Rises Read More »
AMD is looking to drive the AI PC market with options across multiple product lines, which aren’t limited to consumer processors. While primarily designed for the commercial sector, AMD has announced the Ryzen Pro 8000 ‘Phoenix’ series of APUs for desktops, which AMD claims is the first professional-grade CPU to include an NPU designed to provide…
AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 Series CPUs: Commercial Desktop Gets AI Read More »
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix’s and TSMC’s leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications.…
SK Hynix and TSMC Team Up for HBM4 Development Read More »
Thank god for the Humane Ai Pin and Rabbit r1 launches this year. These “not-a-phone” gadgets are supposed to put AI front and center. But each of them represents a different type of failure. Yet I’m thankful for both of them, as they’ve opened our eyes to the reality of AI hardware: We have some…
What if the groundbreaking ‘iPhone AI’ is just a regular old phone? Read More »
A new AI app is drawing criticism and horror for its unsettling premise that it can clone your friends and loved ones. The app is called Vera AI, and while it isn’t available on the Google Play Store any longer in certain countries, reports about the app paint a very disturbing picture.For starters, the app’s…
This AI app clones your dead family members, and people are horrified Read More »
While desktop PC power supplies receive the bulk of enthusiasts’ attention for good reasons – not the least of which being the vast selection of options that comes from being a standardized part – power supplies as a whole aren’t just a concern for big PCs. With the majority of PC sales having flipped to…
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Samsung Electronics has started mass production of its 9th generation of V-NAND memory. The first dies based on their latest NAND tech come in a 1 Tb capacity using a triple-level cell (TLC) architecture, with data transfer rates as high as 3.2 GT/s. The new 3D TLC NAND memory will initially be used to build…
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