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Samsung will use sewage water to quench surging thirst for semiconductors — 400 million liters of waste water to be purified and used daily to manufacture electronic chips

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Samsung will use sewage water to quench surging thirst for semiconductors — 400 million liters of waste water to be purified and used daily to manufacture electronic chips

The semiconductor industry is notorious for its massive water consumption, with each chip requiring thousands of gallons of ultrapure water for production. Ultrapure water (UPW) refers to water that has undergone purification to eliminate impurities, including fine particles and microorganisms, leaving behind only the fundamental hydrogen and oxygen molecules that make up H2O. In response … Read more

Qualcomm’s new audio chips make affordable earphones sound better

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Qualcomm’s new audio chips make affordable earphones sound better

Qualcomm has announced two new audio chips for wireless earphones and headphones: S3 Gen 3 and S5 Gen 3. Both these audio chips claim to make more affordable wireless earphones sound better through advanced connectivity features and AI-powered audio technologies. Qualcomm S3 Gen 3 and S5 audio chips bring Bluetooth 5.4 LE and Auracast support … Read more

MediaTek partners with Nvidia to make car chips to rival Qualcomm, Samsung

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MediaTek partners with Nvidia to make car chips to rival Qualcomm, Samsung

MediaTek has announced that it has partnered with Nvidia to make four new automotive chips for connected and self-driving cards. The company’s Dimensity Auto Cockpit series chips will compete with automotive chips from Qualcomm and Samsung. MediaTek Dimensity Auto Cockpit chips to compete with Samsung’s Exynos Auto chips The company’s new Dimensity Auto Cockpot series has … Read more

NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips

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NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips

NVIDIA’s H100 chips are used by nearly every AI company in the world to train large language models hooked into services like ChatGPT. It’s been great for business. Now, the company is ready to make those chips look terrible, announcing a next-generation platform called Blackwell. Named for David Harold Blackwell, a mathematician who specialized in … Read more

‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

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‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia. Founded by Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic, and Drago Ignjatovic, all previously from Tenstorrent (the creator of Grayskull), Taalas is developing an automated flow for quickly turning any AI model – … Read more

Samsung’s biggest memory rivals are plotting a tie-up with Kafkaesque implications — SK Hynix and Kioxia could build lucrative HBM chips for Nvidia, AMD and others

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Samsung’s biggest memory rivals are plotting a tie-up with Kafkaesque implications — SK Hynix and Kioxia could build lucrative HBM chips for Nvidia, AMD and others

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, a key Nvidia supplier, says it has already sold out of its entire 2024 production of stacked high-bandwidth memory DRAMs, crucial for AI processors in data centers. That’s a problem, given just how in demand HBM chips are right now. However, a solution might have presented itself, as reports say … Read more

Edge AI chips and hybrid edge-cloud architectures

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Edge AI chips and hybrid edge-cloud architectures

As we look ahead to 2024, the landscape of technology is poised for significant change, particularly in the realm of edge AI. EdgeCortix, a leading semiconductor company based in Japan, is at the forefront of these developments. They are preparing to introduce new AI chips and hybrid edge-cloud architectures that are expected to make our … Read more

Sam Altman developing new AI “Brain Chips” or Neuromorphic chips

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Sam Altman developing new AI “Brain Chips” or Neuromorphic chips

Sam Altman, a leading figure in the tech industry and head of OpenAI, is spearheading an ambitious project to raise funds for the development and worldwide production of advanced AI chips. These chips are designed to operate similarly to the human brain, which could lead to significant improvements in the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of AI … Read more

Amazon AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 chips unveiled

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Amazon AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 chips unveiled

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently made an exciting announcement at the AWS re:Invent event introducing two new processors, the Graviton4 and Trainium2. These processors are specifically designed to improve the performance of machine learning training and generative AI applications, making them highly relevant for today’s artificial intelligence explosion. Amazon Graviton4 The Graviton4 chip is a … Read more