Nvidia’s next-gen graphics cards could get a bit pricier at the budget end of the market – well, indeed it’ll be across the board for Blackwell GPUs, but affordable cards will see the greatest impact – if a new power connector rumor is right.This comes from Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), a regular source of…
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…
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5 nodes in 4 years. This is what Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger promised Intel’s customers, investors, and the world at large back in 2021, when he laid out Intel’s ambitious plan to regain leadership in the foundry space. After losing Intel’s long-held spot as the top fab in the world thanks to compounding delays in…
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Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the organizer of Computex, announced today that Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s chief executive officer, will give the trade show’s Opening Keynote. Su’s speech is set for the morning of June 3, 2024, shortly before the formal start of the show. According to AMD, the keynote talk will be “highlighting…
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Oracle’s plans to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings could just be one of many such announcements to come in the enterprise application space, but the database application suite giant has, in fact, been working on adding artificial intelligence across its stack for some time. In September 2023, it announced its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative…
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. released its Q4’2023 and full year 2023 financial results this week. And along with a look at the financial state of the firm as it enters 2024, the company’s earnings info also offers a fresh look at the utilization of their various fab nodes. Of particular interest, with TSMC ramping up…
TSMC Posts Q4’23 Earnings: 3nm Revenue Share Jumps to 15%, 5nm Overtakes 7nm For 2023 Read More »
MLCommons, the consortium behind the MLPerf family of machine learning benchmarks, is announcing this morning that the organization will be developing a new desktop AI benchmarking suite under the MLPerf banner. Helmed by the body’s newly-formed MLPerf Client working group, the task force will be developing a client AI benchmark suit aimed at traditional desktop…
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Intel this week has started production at Fab 9, the company’s latest and most advanced chip packaging plant. Joining Intel’s growing collection of facilities in New Mexico, Fab 9 is tasked with packaging chips using Intel’s Foveros technology, which is currently used to build the company’s latest client Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors and Data…
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The year 2023 will go down as one in which some big storage suppliers focused on upgrades to array products, notably using high-density and low-cost quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage, while others built around software-based optimisation in place of hardware innovation. “When we look back at storage products launched in 2023 we can see a…
QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023 Read More »
Analyst Gartner has reported that 2023 was the worst year in PC history, declining 14.8% in 2023. It said 2023 represented the second year in a row with a double-digit decline, where worldwide PC shipments totalled 241.8 million units, down from 284 million units in 2022. Lenovo, the market leader, shipped 59.7m units in 2023,…
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