Google claims its new AI needs less hardware
Same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1 with a single Nvidia H100 GPU i
Search outfit Google is claiming that its latest open-source model, Gemma 3, can match nearly the same performance as DeepSeek AI’s R1—while using just a single Nvidia H100 GPU instead of 32.
Open’s bonnet, takes a deep breath and says, “It will cost you.”
Scientists have harnessed the Summit supercomputer's raw computational muscle to examine how cells repair DNA damage.
Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip “fraud”
Boffins don’t back the hype
Microsoft has been boasting that its quantum chip is powered by an "entirely new state of matter," but not everyone is buying the hype.
ASML and Imec team up on sub-2nm process technology
Bankrolled by the EU
ASML and Imec have decided to get cosy for the next five years, ensuring that the Belgian research lab gets a High-NA EUV lithography machine.
Intel hires Lip-Bu Tan for new CEO
Needs quick turn around before Celine Dion starts singing
Troubled Chipzilla has once again shuffled the deck chairs on its sinking semiconductor ship, bringing in industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as the latest CEO to attempt a turnaround.
Meta training its own AI chips
RISC-V business
Meta is quietly testing RISC–V–based AI training chips to kick Nvidia out of its wallet.
Gigabyte mocks Asus
EZ Latch Plus doesn’t mangle your motherboard
Gigabyte has thrown some serious shade at Asus with a new video flexing its EZ Latch Plus mechanism—showing a GPU being installed and removed a hundred times without any damage to the motherboard’s PCIe slot.
IBM gets a patent for 4D printer tech
Does not need ink
Biggish Blue has just bagged a patent for a technology that uses 4D-printed smart materials to transport microscopic particles.
TSMC is making serious moves on Intel
Joint venture with Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom
TSMC is trying to rescue troubled Chipzilla’s floundering foundry business, pitching a joint venture to Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom to keep the US chip dinosaur from drowning in a tarpit of its own making.
Exploits high-severity security flaw
A new botnet campaign is tearing through unpatched TP-Link routers like a dodgy kebab through the bowels of an Essex drunk.
