The global semiconductor industry saw its sales dropped around $47 billion to nearly $527 billion in 2023, according to estimations by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). This was a sharp downturn from the record 2022, but good news is that sales picked up significantly in the second half of the year, showing signs of a…
Global Semiconductor Sales Hit $526.8 Billion in 2023 Read More »
With its highly successful A100 and H100 processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, NVIDIA dominates AI datacenter deployments these days. But among large cloud service providers as well as emerging devices like software defined vehicles (SDVs) there is a global trend towards custom silicon. And, according to a report from Reuters,…
Report: NVIDIA Forms Custom Chip Unit for Cloud Computing and More Read More »
For established PC peripheral vendors, the biggest challenge in participating in the highly commoditized market is setting themselves apart from their numerous competitors. As designs for coolers and other peripherals have converged over the years into a handful of basic, highly-optimized designs, developing novel hardware for what is essentially a “solved” physics problem becomes harder…
The Enermax LiqMaxFlo 360mm AIO Cooler Review: A Bit Bigger, A Bit Better Read More »
Apple Music is again heading in the right direction with a new personalized feature. As of today, the music streaming service added a new AI playlist: Heavy Rotation Mix, which makes me believe Apple Music is finally taking serious users’ feedback.This Apple Music feature comes a week after the service announced it was bringing monthly…
Heavy Rotation Mix is the personalized Apple Music feature I’ve been waiting for Read More »
The United States Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundires announced on Monday that the US will be awarding GlobalFoundries with $1.5 billion in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The latest domestic chip fab to receive money under the act, GlobalFoundries’s funding will be spent to upgrade company’s New York and Vermont fabs as well…
GlobalFoundries to Receive $1.5 Billion In Funding from U.S. CHIPS Act Read More »
Crucial is unveiling the latest addition to its Gen5 consumer NVMe SSD lineup today – the T705 PCIe 5.0 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD. It takes over flagship duties from the Crucial T700 released last year. The company has been putting focus on the high-end consumer SSD segment in the last few quarters. The T700 was…
Crucial T705 Gen5 NVMe SSD: A 14.5 GBps Consumer Flagship with 2400 MT/s 232L NAND Read More »
I was wondering why Google came out with the big Gemini rebrand and Gemini Advanced subscription last week. The announcements seemingly came out of the blue. To be fair, this is the norm with AI product launches and upgrades these days. I said at the time they felt like the kind of announcements Google would…
If you thought Gemini 1 was impressive, wait until you see what Gemini 1.5 can do Read More »
A bit over 5 years ago, Arm announced their Neoverse initiative for server, cloud, and infrastructure CPU cores. Doubling-down on their efforts to break into the infrastructure CPU market in a big way, the company set about an ambitious multi-year plan to develop what would become a trio of CPU core lineups to address different…
Arm Announces Neoverse V3 and N3 CPU Cores: Building Bigger and Moving Faster with CSS Read More »
This morning, Intel is set to provide updates on its foundry business (IFS) and process roadmap at its IFS Direct Connect event in Santa Clara. Intel is expected to unveil plans for how the company will transform the foundry industry and how it is set to become the world’s first and only fully integrated systems foundry…
The Intel IFS Direct Connect 2024 Keynote (Starts at 8:30am PT/16:30 UTC) Read More »
Team Green just revealed its new Nvidia App – which replaces GeForce Experience – and it comes with a trick which is essentially the GPU maker’s take on a Windows 11 feature, namely Auto HDR.Nvidia’s RTX HDR is an AI-powered filter which, like Microsoft’s Auto HDR, brings the benefit of HDR to plain old SDR…
