Generative AI is the reason to buy a new smartphone this year; there’s no question about it. Samsung started the trend with Galaxy AI on the Galaxy S24 in January. Galaxy AI is also the main selling point of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 announced last week.Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence at WWDC…
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The compute market has always been hungry for memory bandwidth, particularly for high-performance applications in servers and datacenters. In recent years, the explosion in core counts per socket has further accentuated this need. Despite progress in DDR speeds, the available bandwidth per core has unfortunately not seen a corresponding scaling. The stakeholders in the industry…
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A week after releasing iOS 18 beta 3 to developers, Apple is now seeding a new build of this upcoming operating system update. We expected this version to bring Apple Intelligence, but it seems it’s not there yet.These are some of the Apple Intelligence features we’ll likely see soon during the iOS 18 beta cycle.…
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun an initial investigation of Microsoft latest attempt to build out its artificial intelligence (AI ) strategy. In March, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the company had hired Inflection AI’s co-founders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, with Simonyan also being the startup’s chief scientist. At the time, Nadella…
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If you’re a Google Gemini user, it’s time to review the privacy settings for Google’s AI chatbot. It looks like Gemini might have access to documents in Google Drive that it shouldn’t be able to read. That’s what happened with one Gemini user who was stunned to discover that Gemini could summarize tax returns in…
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AMD has confirmed that its Ryzen 9000 processors will be out on July 31, and furnished us with a few extra details about the next-gen CPUs.As we already knew, the initial line-up of these Zen 5 processors – which will remain using the AM5 socket – will consist of four models. Those are the high-end…
Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell graphics cards might use a good chunk more power than current Lovelace GPUs, if a leak is to be believed.This isn’t a straightforward leak, mind – one delivered by an anonymous source via a hardware leaker – but it appears to be a mistake made by power supply manufacturer Seasonic.Seasonic, a trusted…
Samsung invited Google and Qualcomm to the Galaxy S23 Unpacked event in early February 2023 to tease the “next XR experience” the three companies were building. XR stands for mixed reality, and the announcement dropped at the height of Apple Vision Pro rumors. Well, back then, the Vision Pro product name was not official. But…
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The year-on-year (YoY) growth of cloud storage and computing suggests an unstoppable trend of customers that have moved away from owning and running their own datacentres, compute, storage and networking hardware. But although the cloud continues to grow – accounting for as much as 50% of the world’s IT infrastructure – the trend no longer…
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Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su’s opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD’s latest AI PC-focused chip family for the laptop market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. In…
