AI chips will become less GPUish
More AI standard
Graphics processing units so far have dominated the bulk of training and running large-scale AI models, but that could be set to change.
AI PCs to make 60 per cent of PC sales in 2027
Three times more than this year
The surging demand for AI-driven applications has boosted the popularity of AI PCs, both in consumer and professional sectors. This trend is expected to continue in the following years, with AI PC gaining a much more significant market share than this year.
So Brits will have it expensive
The UK is being cheated out of cheap green power because the National Grid says its ageing computer systems and an outdated electricity network prevent it from using batteries designed to deliver cheap green power.
Ive been building hardware for OpenAI
A stealth product in the works
Sir Jony Ive, the man who designed most of Apple’s gear, has confirmed that he is working on a stealth hardware product with OpenAI.
Lucky teams up with Microsoft on military headsets
Gives soldiers live data feeds
Tech wunderkind Palmer Luckey, who flogged Oculus to Meta for a tidy $2 billion, is now back in the headset game. This time, he's teamed up with Microsoft to jazz up the United States Army's mixed-reality headsets.
Court hears how Google played monopoly
Own emails give a clue
In the latest episode of "Google vs. The World," government lawyers have unearthed some juicy tidbits from Google's internal memos.
ByteDance taps TSMC to make its AI GPUS
Reducing dependency on Nvidia
ByteDance has tapped TSMC to make two in-house designed AI GPUs in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia for AI hardware while complying with US export regulations.
Ryzen 9000 handles AVX-512 instructions better than Intel
To be fair, Intel’s is getting on a bit
Toms’ Hardware has been looking under the bonnet of AMD's Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000-series processors and discovered that they handle AVX-512 instructions with minimal speed reduction and power increase, unlike Intel's older technology, allowing for compact cores and higher overall performance.
Intel says it will not flog off Mobileye
We are not that broke yet
While Chipzilla is talking about flogging off its family silver and spinning off bits of itself, it apparently has no plans to get rid of its majority stake in Mobileye Global.
Cisco fires thousands more employees
$32 million CEO says company needs to make cuts despite profits
Notworking giant Cisco has fired thousands of employees in its second layoff of 2024.