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AMD and Intel arm x86 against the AI gap with ACE, baking matrix-multiply engines & low-precision formats straight into future CPUs

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ACE, the upcoming set of x86 Extensions defined by both AMD & Intel, has seen the latest spec release, focusing on AI acceleration. AMD & Intel Focus on AI Acceleration Through Next-Gen x86 Architectures That Are ACE Compliant Last year,Β Intel and AMD partnered to strengthen the x86 ecosystem through their "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" initiative. The plan was to offer a standardized set of features across architectures to make x86 accessible, scalable, and compatible with future requirements. Four key features were announced: FRED, AVX10, ChkTag, and ACE. Now, the latest ACE "AI Compute Extensions" specifications have been published by AMD […]

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Scammers Now Selling Fake NVIDIA RTX Graphics Cards With Glued-Down Plastic GPUs & Scrap Memory

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More Fake GPUs are circulating online marketplaces, which use plastic chips to imitate NVIDIA RTX GPUs and scrap memory dies. You Need To Be Extra Cautious of Graphics Cards Being Sold Online As NVIDIA RTX Graphics Cards Have Been Spotted With Glued Plastic GPUs Over the years, we have seen several instances of fake graphics cards appearing online. Most of these graphics cards are sold through online marketplaces, & the region most affected by such products is the Asia Pacific. Previously, we have seen graphics cards with missing components and different GPUs, but this time, scammers have gone an extra […]

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Apple To Design & Build Chips At Intel on American Soil, US President Confirms

Apple To Design & Build Chips At Intel on American Soil, US President Confirms

Intel's deal with Apple is now confirmed by the US President himself, with Chipzilla all set to build and design chips on American soil. Intel Will Design & Build Chips For Apple As US Moves Chip Making Back To American Soil Well, if it needed confirmation, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has now confirmed that Apple has agreed to work with Intel. In this deal, Apple will leverage Intel tech to design and build its next-generation chips. The statement from Trump comes as part of the historic turnaround that Intel has achieved under the current US […]

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The World’s Top Cloud Providers Are Now Getting NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72, The World’s Fastest AI Platform

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The era of Vera Rubin is upon us, as not only NVIDIA's but the world's fastest AI platform is now being delivered to top cloud providers. Coreweave & Oracle Receive The World's First NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Systems For Validation, Bringing A Mammoth Leap To Agentic AI NVIDIA's Vera Rubin is in volume production, but the top AI cloud providers are already getting their hands on the first systems to test and validate. NVIDIA also sent out its first Vera CPUs to major AI firms last month. Oracle and Coreweave are among the first cloud providers to bring up NVIDIA's […]

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Lip-Bu Tan Nearly Walked Away From Semiconductors, But One Plea to β€˜Save Intel’ Pulled Him Back as CEO, Now Hiring Top CPU/GPU Architects

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Intel CEO, Lip-Bu Tan was about to retire from the semiconductor industry, but was asked to do one more thing: save Intel. Lip-Bu Tan was on the Intel Candidate List Back in 2021, But Made The Final Decision To Become CEO After Being Convninced By His Wife & Friends Ever since Lip-Bu Tan joined Intel as CEO, we have seen some radical changes in the structuring of the company. Lip-Bu has turned Intel around. Most of the groundwork was laid by Intel's former CEO, Pat Gelsinger, who set the company's Foundry plans and current product line, but Lip-Bu is creating […]

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The Future Of EUV: ASML’s Plans For The Hyperscale Era

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By now, everyone and their grandmother is familiar with ASML, the sole provider of EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) capable lithography machines in the world. As hyperscalers continue to aggressively build out compute, we constantly discover new bottlenecks at almost every level of Jensen's five-layer AI cake, down to an insulating film supplied by, of all things, an MSG manufacturer. Yet for all the novel bottlenecks that crop up, there remains a perennial, critical constraint to AI build-out: the capacity of leading fabs to produce wafers on bleeding-edge process nodes. In other words, this bottleneck is EUV capacity, as all sub-7 nm […]

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