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Samsung archrival plans construction of world’s largest chip factory — at more than $90 billion, it will take more than 20 years to finish, so one wonders what other exciting tech will it produce

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Samsung archrival plans construction of world’s largest chip factory — at more than billion, it will take more than 20 years to finish, so one wonders what other exciting tech will it produce

SK Hynix, Samsung‘s chief competitor and the world’s number two memory maker, has begun its audacious plan to build the largest chip production facility on the planet. The construction at SK Hynix’s giant Yongin Semiconductor Cluster in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, will comprise four units. Work on the first unit, which is intended to be … Read more

‘Wean itself off Nvidia’: Samsung signs $750 million agreement with South Korea’s largest online platform — Naver wants to replace Nvidia’s super expensive AI GPU with the more affordable Mach-1 chip

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‘Wean itself off Nvidia’: Samsung signs 0 million agreement with South Korea’s largest online platform — Naver wants to replace Nvidia’s super expensive AI GPU with the more affordable Mach-1 chip

In a move to cut its dependency on Nvidia‘s high-cost AI chips, Naver, the South Korean equivalent of Google, has signed a 1 trillion won ($750 million) agreement with Samsung.  The deal will see the tech giant supply its more affordable Mach-1 chips to Naver, by the end of 2024. The Mach-1 chip, currently under … Read more

M3 Max Chip Has Hidden Change That Could Affect Future ‘M3 Ultra’ Chip

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M3 Max Chip Has Hidden Change That Could Affect Future ‘M3 Ultra’ Chip

Apple’s M3 Ultra chip may be designed as its own, standalone chip, rather than be made up of two M3 Max dies, according to a plausible new theory. The theory comes from Max Tech‘s Vadim Yuryev, who outlined his thinking in a post on X earlier today. Citing a post from @techanalye1 which suggests the … Read more

Act fast to save $50 on 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Act fast to save on 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

Save $50 on various configurations of 15-inch MacBook Air. Photo: Apple Within weeks of going on sale, Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is available with a sweet $50 discount. The deal knocks the price of the entry-level configuration down to $1,249. You can score a similar $50 discount on the 15-inch Air with M3 chip in … Read more

Nvidia’s fastest AI chip ever could cost a rather reasonable $40,000 — but chances that you will actually be able to buy one on its own are very, very low and for a good reason

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Nvidia’s fastest AI chip ever could cost a rather reasonable ,000 — but chances that you will actually be able to buy one on its own are very, very low and for a good reason

In a recent interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared details about the company’s upcoming Blackwell chip which cost $10 billion in research and development to create. The new GPU, which is built on a custom 4NP TSMC process and packs a total of 208 billion transistors (104 billion per die), with … Read more

Samsung is going after Nvidia’s billions with new AI chip — Mach-1 accelerator will combine CPU, GPU and memory to tackle inference tasks but not training

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‘Wean itself off Nvidia’: Samsung signs 0 million agreement with South Korea’s largest online platform — Naver wants to replace Nvidia’s super expensive AI GPU with the more affordable Mach-1 chip

Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its own AI accelerator chip, the ‘Mach-1’, in a bid to challenge Nvidia‘s dominance in the AI semiconductor market.  The new chip, which will likely target edge applications with low power consumption requirements, will go into production by the end of this year and make its debut in early … Read more

iPhone 16 Pro’s A18 Pro Chip Rumored to Boost AI, Retain 6-Core GPU

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iPhone 16 Pro’s A18 Pro Chip Rumored to Boost AI, Retain 6-Core GPU

Apple’s next-generation A18 Pro chip for iPhone 16 Pro models will feature a larger die size for boosted artificial intelligence performance, according to Jeff Pu, an investment analyst who covers companies within Apple’s supply chain. In a research note with Hong Kong-based investment firm Haitong International Securities this week, Pu added that the A18 Pro … Read more

Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2024) re-refresh is official with a new old chip

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Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2024) re-refresh is official with a new old chip

For some time now, rumors about Samsung re-releasing the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite a second time have been floating around. It sounded unexpected, but it turned out it was all correct. Samsung kicked off the week with a surprise launch of the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2024) tablet in Europe. The re-refreshed Galaxy Tab S6 … Read more

Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chip brings on-device AI for affordable high-end phones

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Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 chip brings on-device AI for affordable high-end phones

Qualcomm has unveiled a new processor—Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3—for higher mid-range phones and flagship killer devices. It’s the first Snapdragon 7 series mobile processor to feature on-device AI processing, Wi-Fi 7 connectivity, and a Cortex-X4 CPU core. OnePlus, Realme, and Sharp will be among the first smartphone brands to launch devices with the Snapdragon 7+ … Read more

Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

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Meta sheds more light on how it is evolving Llama 3 training — it relies for now on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPU, but how long before Meta switches to its own AI chip?

Meta has unveiled details about its AI training infrastructure, revealing that it currently relies on almost 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its open source Llama 3 LLM.  The company says it will have over 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in service by the end of 2024, and the computing power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s … Read more