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17 stories and discussions about chips, aggregated from every source we track.
Artificial intelligence is a foundational technology that could help us tackle humanity's greatest challenges. Now, we're asking where we can go next to unlock its fulle…
<p>The general idea is to use a modified presentation projector and reduction optics to transfer an image to the photoresist on a wafer without the use of expensive masks.</p>
Nvidia-branded trailers were too tempting to pass up, but were dumped when the crooks realized what was inside.
Export-restricted hardware with 40 – 52 weeks lead times readily available in China (almost).
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China Telecom unveiled its next-generation Xing4.0-29B-A4B large model on September 17th. It has a total of 29 billion parameters, but only 4 billion are activa
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On its face, the recent summit between Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t change much in the world of AI regulation. Export controls were not discussed, with neither country seemingly interested in making concessions. An already tenuous trade truce was temporarily extended for just two months, and looming US controls that could drop soon could easily end that and trigger China to retaliate by cutting off exports of rare earths, analysts expect. However, in the background of these shaky talks, Nvidia appeared to notch a big win, as China is currently mulling relaxing controls and allowing some of its biggest AI firms to import perhaps millions more of Nvidia’s banned chips over the next year. Sources familiar with China’s talks told The Information that China’s tech oversight arm, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, asked Alibaba and ByteDance to share plans to buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500 chips. Although these are gaming chips, China asked firms to detail how they plan to use them, with expectations that chips could be put into servers to help power the country’s most in-demand AI models. Read full article Comments
The 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 share most of their specs in common. | Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are relatively minor, mostly limited to improved AI processing, video capture, and gaming performance on the Extreme model. Both Gen 6 chips are built on a 2nm process, and share much in common, including their modems, display specs, security features, GPS, and memory and storage support. Qualcomm no longer publishes detailed breakdowns of the cores across its silicon, but the CPU details given are identical, with two big cores at up to 5GHz and six performa … Read the full story at The Verge.