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Tokyo Electron has introduced its Acrevia, a new gas cluster beam (GCB) system, which uses low-damage surface processing to refine patterns created by EUV lithography. The tool can reduce the usage of EUV multi-patterning for upcoming nodes, enhance line edge roughness, and reduce stochastic litho defects. It can achieve critical dimensions of 13 nm to 16 nm for high-volume production with a single exposure and print a 26-nm minimum metal pitch, acceptable for 3nm-class process technologies.
TechnologyTokyoElectron | Rating: 85 | 2024-07-09 03:36:49 PM |
China plans to increase its national computing power by 30% by 2025, growing from 230 ExaFLOPS to 300 ExaFLOPS. The country currently has over 8.1 million data center racks providing 230 ExaFLOPS of processing power. Wang Xiaoli from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology revealed this data at the Global Digital Economy Conference 2024.
TechnologyChina | Rating: 80 | 2024-07-09 12:06:27 PM |
Intel has begun groundwork on its Fab 29 chip fab near Magdeburg, Germany, which is expected to be one of the largest and most advanced in Europe. The project has faced obstacles, including postponed subsidy approval from the European Union and issues with black soil removal. The company has overcome 13 objections from environmental groups and municipalities, but full project approval is still pending.
TechnologyIntel | Rating: 89 | 2024-07-09 11:36:28 AM |
Former ASML boss Peter Wennick believes the US-China chip war may continue for decades, driven by ideological reasons rather than factual basis. ASML is the world's largest vendor of chipmaking tools and equipment, with Taiwan and China as its largest customers. Wennick served as CEO for 10 years, during which ASML grew to become the third-largest European company by market cap.
TechnologyASML | Rating: 90 | 2024-07-08 07:16:26 PM |
Asus has launched the NUC 14 Pro+, a mini-PC powered by Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs, which come with an integrated NPU for local generative AI processing. The device is available as a barebone kit or a complete build, weighing 800 grams, and is marketed for home and office use. It features three CPU options: Intel Ultra 7 155H, Ultra 5 125H, and Ultra 9 185H, with two additional vPro options.
TechnologyAsus | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-08 06:16:51 PM |
Tencent Holdings has upgraded its high-performance computing network, Xingmai 2.0, which now supports over 100,000 GPUs in a single computing cluster, doubling its initial capacity. The upgrade increases network communication efficiency by 60% and large language model training efficiency by 20%. This development aligns with China's efforts to advance its AI capabilities despite restrictions on shipments of advanced processors.
AITencent | Rating: 85 | 2024-07-08 05:26:43 PM |
AMD surpassed Intel in brand recognition, achieving 53% year-over-year brand growth since 2023. The company ranked 41st on Kantar's BrandZ Most Valuable Brands report for 2024, with a brand value of $51.86 million in the Business Technology and Services Platforms category.
TechnologyAMD | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-08 04:47:00 PM |
Intel is developing a new adaptive sharpening filter for Linux, optimized for its Lunar Lake processors featuring Xe2 integrated graphics. The filter uses hardware inside the Lunar Lake Xe2 Battlemage iGPU to execute sharpening and upscaling work, enhancing image quality with minimal impact on power and GPU performance.
TechnologyIntel | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-08 03:56:29 PM |
Qualcomm has hired Paritosh Kulkarni, a former AMD ray tracing expert, to work on DirectX 12.2 support for its Adreno GPUs. Kulkarni will leverage his expertise in ray tracing to develop DX12.2 features like DXR, mesh shaders, work graphs, and driver optimizations. He was responsible for developing ProRender, the compute ray tracing API HIPRT, and other internal frameworks at AMD.
TechnologyQualcomm | Rating: 89 | 2024-07-08 03:16:39 PM |
AMD engineer Phil Park discussed the 'Layoff Bug' that affected AMD's Barcelona architecture CPUs in 2007, requiring software patches or revised CPUs to fix. The bug was so severe that AMD referred to it as the 'Layoff Bug' due to the potential for layoffs. Phil Park shared this information in a Twitter thread, responding to comments from former AMD employee Hemant Mohapatra.
TechnologyAMD | Rating: 81 | 2024-07-08 02:56:45 PM |