AI chip
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AI chips with double the arithmetic! Qualcomm to unveil two new flagship chips tomorrow
Qualcomm has officially announced that it will hold a Snapdragon flagship launch event on March 18, 2024 at 14:30 GMT. The conference will be held under the slogan of "Smart in the core, with the dragon is spiritual", which indicates that there will be powerful new products unveiled. According to industry insiders, Qualcomm plans to release...
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Intel plans to supply over 100 million chips for AI PCs in five years
At the latest Mobile World Congress, Intel announced an ambitious plan: by the end of 2025, the company plans to supply more than 100 million chips for AI-enabled PCs. This strategy marks a further expansion of Intel's presence in AI and reflects the fact that AI technology in the PC market...
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Qualcomm Launches AI Center to Simplify AI Integration in Application Development
On February 26, Qualcomm announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence Hub (AI Hub), an innovative platform designed to simplify the process for application developers to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI capabilities into their applications. Qualcomm emphasized that the AI Hub serves as a central site for developers to easily access and select already...
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Samsung wins first 2nm chip order ahead of TSMC
Recently, Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully secured the first 2nm process AI chip production order from Japanese AI giant Preferred Networks Inc.(PFN), thus taking the lead over TSMC in the competition for 2nm advanced chips.PFN, as a leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has been walking the path of developing cutting-edge AI chips and...
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OpenAI founder seeks U.S. government support to advance chip manufacturing program
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is actively seeking support from the U.S. government to advance his chip manufacturing project, according to people familiar with the matter. This project aims to dramatically increase the global capacity to manufacture cutting-edge computing chips to ensure that large-scale deployment and continued development of artificial intelligence is not disrupted by shortages. In...
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Masayoshi Son plans new battle for AI chips, to compete with Nvidia in the market
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is planning a heavy investment in the tech sector. According to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg, Son is looking to raise as much as $100 billion to set up a new AI chip company, a move intended to compete directly with chip giant Nvidia. The project is reportedly...
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Samsung's foundry division makes a major breakthrough: gets orders for 2nm AI chips, and plans to launch lower-priced processes
Recently, TechNews reported that Samsung's foundry division has successfully secured an order for a 2nm AI chip that also includes supporting HBM memory and advanced packaging services. This breakthrough marks Samsung's significant progress in chip manufacturing, further cementing its place in the global semiconductor market...
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NVIDIA's "special offer" H20 chip to China: booking opens, market reaction is lukewarm
According to several recent distributor sources, NVIDIA's H20, an AI chip specially customized for the Chinese market, is now available for pre-order. The chip, created specifically for the Chinese market, marks a further deepening of NVIDIA's technological cooperation with China. The NVIDIA H20 chip is designed as a high-performance AI computing solution in a variety of...
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To reduce costs and increase processing power, Meta plans to deploy new in-house AI inference chips this year
Meta plans to deploy Artemis, a new homegrown AI inference chip designed to run inference workloads, in its data centers this year, which will be used in platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as in devices such as Ray-Ban smart glasses. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in this year's...
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NVIDIA launches "sky-high" AI chips for China, over $100,000 per chip
NVIDIA has begun accepting pre-orders from distributors for its China-specialized AI chip H20, according to sources familiar with the matter.Sources said the H20 does not perform as well as Huawei's Rise AI chip 910B in some key areas.In recent weeks, NVIDIA priced the Chinese H20 distributors at between $12,000 and $15,000 for a single chip. Some distribution...
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Altman, the father of ChatGPT, announced plans to build his own AI chip.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to raise billions of dollars for a chip joint venture to make AI chips in-house to better meet the growing demand for chips and reduce reliance on NVIDIA. The plan has been in talks with several large potential investors, including total part...
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AMD Introduces First Desktop AI Processor: the Ryzen 8000G Series, Leading a New Chapter in AI Computing
AMD recently announced the Ryzen 8000G series, the first AI central processing unit (CPU) for desktops. This breakthrough product will provide users with powerful AI computing capabilities to meet the growing demand for AI computing. The Ryzen 8000G series chips are expected to be available to DIY customers from January 31, 2024...
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Samsung: focusing on chips and AI for future changes in 2024
Samsung Electronics recently announced its strategic priorities for 2024, emphasizing that it will strengthen the company's competitiveness through technological superiority and adaptability to future changes. Co-CEOs Han Jong-hee and Kyung Gye-hyeon said they will prioritize strengthening basic competitiveness, including super gap technology, and urged Samsung Electronics' chip manufacturing...
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AMD unveils MI300X, claims performance beyond H100, backed by tech giants
AMD, a world-renowned semiconductor company, recently officially announced its next-generation AI chip, the MI300X.According to AMD, the performance of this AI chip even surpasses that of the industry-leading NVIDIA H100 in some aspects. First of all, the FP8 FLOPS performance of the MI300X is 301 TP3T higher than that of NVIDIA's H100. 30%, which means it's better at handling large...
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AI Arms Race?Meta and Microsoft Announce Massive Purchases of AMD's Latest AI Chips
Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft said at AMD's investor event on Wednesday local time that they will be using AMD's latest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X.The announcement suggests that AMD's newest product will be noticed globally and could have a significant impact on the AI chip market. Graphics ...
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NVIDIA CEO says Huawei is a strong competitor to it in AI chips
Bloomberg reports that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said in an interview in Singapore that Huawei is one of NVIDIA's "very strong" competitors in the AI chip space. In addition, he mentioned Intel and the growing number of semiconductor startups that are important to NVIDIA in the AI gas pedal market...
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AMD Launches New AI Chip, Announces MI300X Accelerator Begins Shipping
UltraMicro Semiconductor (AMD) announced its latest AI chips, the Instinct MI300 series, at the 'Advancing AI' event on Friday. The series includes new products such as MI300A and MI300X, as well as the software and services that go with them. According to AMD, the MI300A has entered mass production, while the M...
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The Necklace Escalates Again? U.S. gets tougher on AI chips
The U.S. Commerce Department needs more money to stop China from catching up in cutting-edge semiconductors, says Secretary Raimondo, claiming that any AI chips designed to circumvent restrictions on China will be banned from export. Speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Raimondo said, "We can't let China get these cores...