Cerebras, the company behind the world’s largest accelerator chip in existence, the CS-2 Wafer Scale Engine, has just announced a milestone: the training of the world’s largest NLP (Natural Language Processing) AI model in a single device. While that in itself could mean many things (it wouldn’t be much of a record to break if…
Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan have achieved greater than 1 Petabit per second (Pb/s) data transfers using 4-core fiber with standard cladding. The key advance, facilitating this new transfer speed record, is the transmission system’s support for optical bandwidth exceeding 20 THz. This beefy bandwidth comes largely…
Illicit trade in counterfeit goods represents a major hindrance to the development of the local manufacturing industry and spans across a number of key sectors, including car parts, food and beverages, tobacco products, computer components and software, medicines, designer clothes, and cosmetics. The Regulations aim at reducing this illegal trade by seizing more counterfeit goods…
Gigabyte Team overclocker HiCookie has achieved a new DDR5 speed world record. Using a single 16GB stick of Aorus branded DDR5 RGB memory, HiCookie hit and verified 5,011 MHz, or DDR5-10022 (10,022 MT/s). This is just a smidgeon faster than MSI Team chalked up in a milestone achievement earlier in the week, but a record…
Intel has finally dropped the Core i9-12900KS, its flagship mainstream CPU. So I took a tray full of these chips for a spin, breaking eight world records in six hours, courtesy of 70 liters of liquid nitrogen. I even pushed the 12900KS up to 7.8 GHz on eight cores, breaking the OC record. One of…
In our rapidly changing world demand for various chips is high. So high that foundries can increase their quotes without fearing to lose customers. But TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) stands apart from its rivals. TSMC has more capacity than any other foundry, and it has leading-edge technologies not available from its rivals. Increased prices, extraordinary…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. Whether you’re showing someone how to perform a task in an important application or you want a record of your gameplay, recording the screen in Windows 11 (or Windows 10) is a great way to do it. Fortunately, Microsoft’s latest…
Shipments of standalone graphics cards for desktop PCs in the second quarter 2021 decreased 2.9% compared to the previous quarter, according to data from Jon Peddie Research (JPR). But while graphics boards units sold decreased last quarter, their average selling prices remained at record high levels. Market shares of AMD and Nvidia did not change significantly…
AMD’s next-generation Threadripper Pro 5995WX may be the hottest news in CPU enthusiast circles right now. However, two Threadripper Pro 3995WX (via Reddit) recently established a new CPU record in PassMark. A pair of EPYC 75F3 processors previously held the record, with a score of 110,748 CPU marks. The dual-Threadripper Pro 3995WX configuration put up…
The tech shortage is wreaking havoc on the market, and the world’s largest chipmakers are going into overdrive to procure as many raw materials as possible to alleviate the issue. As reported by Nikkei Asia, the world’s nine leading chipmakers hit a record high of $64.7 million worth of raw materials inventory in June as…