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AI chip built using ancient Samsung tech is claimed to be as fast as Nvidia A100 GPU — prototype is smaller and much more power efficient but is it just too good to be true?

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 15, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled an AI chip that they claim can match the speed of Nvidia's A100 GPU but with…

‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 15, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia.Founded by Ljubisa Bajic,…

World’s largest laptop vendor quietly releases robot with six legs — Lenovo Daystar Bot GS is IP-rated and reminds us of Boston Dynamics’ andro-dogs

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 11, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] There can’t be many people who haven’t seen at least one video of Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot performing tricks like going up and down stairs, spinning, dancing, jumping,…

AMD CEO offers to help AI Startup that uses Radeon 7900 XTX GPUs — but will it backfire for Lisa Su as she seemingly supports use of consumer parts in enterprise use cases

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 11, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] We’ve written previously about tinybox. The $15,000 AI server system is powered by AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards and can reportedly deliver 37% of Nvidia H100 compute…

AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 10, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD's extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and adaptive SoCs. It has been introduced to replace the Xilinx Spartan…

Las Vegas Sphere has 4,000TB SSD storage delivering 400GB/s throughput — World’s only 16K display requires some exquisite technology to keep it going

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 10, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] We’ve written previously about some of the technology that powers the Las Vegas Sphere, including the 16K interior LED screen, and the ultra-high resolution 18K camera system. Now, details…

HP’s lightest laptop could be the most powerful sub-1Kg notebook released yet — Aero 13 ultrabook has a tiny price tag, a super fast Ryzen 7 CPU but you have to wait till May to buy it

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 10, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Last year we called the HP Pavilion Aero 13 “probably the best value-for-money light laptop on the market right now” and it’s about to get an upgrade that will…

Firm headed by legendary chip architect behind AMD Zen finally releases first hardware — days after being selected to build the future of AI in Japan, Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 10, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Tenstorrent, the firm led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller, the mastermind behind AMD's Zen architecture and Tesla's original self-driving chip, has launched its first hardware. Grayskull is a…

Obscure Chinese brand launches laptop that may have a better battery life than the MacBook Pro — Core Ultra 7 totting Megabook T16 Pro has record-breaking 99.9WHr battery, up to 22 hours on a single charge

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 9, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] Tecno Mobile, while not widely known outside of China, does have a reputation for making high-quality devices at competitive prices. The company’s new 16 inch Megabook T16 Pro 2024…

Obscure laptop brand is first out of the blocks with revolutionary Qualcomm 5G modem — 5G RedCap Snapdragon X35 is 4G on steroids and deserves better than the NL73

By waynewilliams@onmail.com (Wayne Williams) March 9, 2024Tech NewsNo Comments

[ad_1] 5G RedCap (reduced capability), also called NR Lite, maintains key 5G characteristics like quick response time, low energy usage and improved security, while restricting the bandwidth to a few…