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Elon Musk's Texas Tesla Gigafactory is expanding to include an AI supercomputer cluster, which will utilize Supermicro's liquid cooling technology. Charles Liang, Supermicro's CEO, praised Musk's adoption of the technology, estimating it could lead to preserving 20 billion trees if adopted globally. The cluster will be built in collaboration with xAI, another company utilizing Supermicro's liquid cooling technology.
TechnologyTesla | Rating: 88 | 2024-07-06 12:26:27 PM |
Nvidia, a tech giant, almost sold half of itself to AMD in the past. According to a former AMD engineer, Nvidia refused to be bought unless Jensen Huang, the company's CEO, was made the CEO of the merged company. This revelation comes from Hemant Mohapatra, who worked at AMD as an engineer in the mid to late 2000s, designing CPUs, APUs, and GPUs.
TechNvidia | Rating: 82 | 2024-07-06 11:56:28 AM |
Jaykihn claims that Fast Throttle, a per-core thermal throttling solution, will also come to Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake processors. It debuted on 13th Generation Raptor Lake processors, providing an alternative method of temperature-related throttling compared to TJMax.
TechnologyIntel | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-05 05:16:25 PM |
Nvidia is expected to earn $12 billion by selling AI GPUs to Chinese customers, despite US government restrictions. The company's HGX H20 GPUs are in high demand in China, with over one million units to be shipped. This is significantly more than Huawei's projected sales of 550,000 Ascend 910B AI processors in 2024.
AINvidia | Rating: 91 | 2024-07-05 04:16:28 PM |
AMD has discovered the first non-Ryzen 9 AI-series CPU, the Ryzen AI 7 Pro 160, featuring eight Zen 5/Zen5c cores. The new CPU is part of AMD's upcoming lower-end SKUs that will join the CPU manufacturer's lineup of outgoing Ryzen AI 300 series processors. The 'Pro' nomenclature confirms that AMD will make professional/business variants of the AI 300 series.
TechnologyAMD | Rating: 85 | 2024-07-05 03:16:46 PM |
Huawei Cloud's CEO Zhang Ping'an emphasized that China's AI progress will not be hindered by limited access to advanced AI processors. Huawei develops its own Ascend 910-series processors, which are competitive against Nvidia's A100. The company's CEO dismissed fears that China's limited computing power would hinder its AI progress.
AIHuawei | Rating: 86 | 2024-07-05 01:56:27 PM |
China's authorities encourage mergers and acquisitions (M&As) among semiconductor companies to build stronger entities, rather than initial public offerings (IPOs). The aim is to concentrate resources on technological advancements. The China Securities Regulatory Commission has introduced new laws, such as the STAR Market Eight Provisions, to promote M&A and create a favorable environment for tech companies with critical technologies.
TechnologyChina | Rating: 84 | 2024-07-05 01:06:50 PM |
AMD's Senior Director of Consumer and Gaming Client Business, Renato Fragale, helped the company avoid bankruptcy by developing the PlayStation 4 processor, which was launched by Sony in 2013. The custom 'Jaguar' processor was instrumental to AMD's survival during a difficult time for the company. Phil Park, AMD's Memory Systems / Interconnect Performance Architect, also remembers living through the challenging times at AMD from the late 2000s to early 2010s.
SemiconductorsAMD | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-05 11:16:25 AM |
Huawei announced the Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro development board in May, which features a 64-bit quad-core Arm processor. The board's markings were removed, and the architecture and GPU are not disclosed due to U.S. export restrictions. A "Hi 1910" label points to a HiSilicon Hi1910 AI module, which is also used in the Atlas 200 AI module, delivering 22 TOPS of AI performance, whereas the Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro has 8 TOPS.
TechnologyHuawei | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-04 06:16:26 PM |
Nvidia announced that its RTX Remix toolkit, used to mod DirectX8 and DirectX9 games with ray-tracing and remastered materials, is going open source. The Beta is already available for download, and the complete Toolkit will be updated later in June. Nvidia demonstrated RTX Remix's new functionality with Portal and showcased upscaling and remastering existing texture work with physically based rendering (PBR) and AI prompts.
TechnologyNvidia | Rating: 91 | 2024-07-04 05:26:30 PM |